Waddell Runner-Up at St. Galler Elite Challenge

SKIP
Kyle
Waddell

Third
Craig
Waddell

Second
Mark
Taylor

Lead
Gavin
Barr

Kyle Waddell (Hamilton, SCO) lost 5-2 to Cameron Bryce (Border, SCO) in the Final of the St. Galler Elite Challenge, held January 18 - 21 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Waddell won 8-7 over Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in the semifinals of the St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland; and won 7-3 over Giacomo Colli (Cortina dâAmpezzo, ITA) in the quarterfinals.

Waddell finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Waddell defeated Colli 6-3, then won 11-0 against Konrad Stych (Warsaw, POL) and 4-2 against Stocker. Waddell won 5-4 against Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the St. Galler Elite Challenge, Waddell take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN prize. Waddell move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.5 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 146.812 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Waddell ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 127.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	42	26	0	0.618	11-4	10-5	5-3	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	484	388	308	8.02	6.36	1.65	4.59	4.07	1.75	1.56	1.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	229	276	62	32	8-1	21-3	54-7	1.21	0.27	0.42	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	255	112	246	33	6-6	4-18	13-38	0.44	0.96	0.59	0.28

2024: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Border, SCO
2023: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2022: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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