2025 United States Men's Curling Championship

2025 United States Men's Curling Championship
Host city	Duluth, Minnesota
Arena	Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
Dates	January 27 – February 2
Winner	Team Dropkin
Curling club	Duluth CC, Duluth
Skip	Korey Dropkin
Third	Thomas Howell
Second	Andrew Stopera
Lead	Mark Fenner
Coach	Mark Lazar
Finalist	Daniel Casper
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The 2025 United States Men's Curling Championship was held from January 27 to February 2 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota. ^{[1] [2]} The event was held in conjunction with the 2025 United States Women's Curling Championship. The winning Korey Dropkin rink represented the United States at the 2025 World Men's Curling Championship at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ^[3] The winning team will also earn a berth into the 2025 United States Olympic Curling Trials. ^[1]

Qualification process

The following teams qualified to participate in the 2025 national championship: ^[4]

Qualification	Berths	Qualifying Team(s)
2024 World Men's Curling Championship representative	1	John Shuster
2025 World Junior Curling Championships representative	1	Wesley Wendling
WCF Team Ranking points leaders (September 25, 2024)	2	Korey Dropkin Daniel Casper
Qualifying Event (St. Paul Cash Spiel)	2	Scott Dunnam Chase Sinnett
WCF Year-to-date points leaders (December 26, 2024)	2	Ethan Sampson Timothy Hodek
TOTAL	8

Teams

The teams are listed as follows: ^{[1] [5]}

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Daniel Casper	Luc Violette	Ben Richardson	Aidan Oldenburg	Rich Ruohonen	Chaska, Minnesota
Korey Dropkin	Thomas Howell	Andrew Stopera	Mark Fenner		Duluth, Minnesota
Scott Dunnam	Cody Clouser	Lance Wheeler	Andrew Dunnam		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Timothy Hodek	Evan Workin	Josh Moore	Nathan Parry		Fargo, North Dakota
Ethan Sampson	Coleman Thurston	Jacob Zeman	Marius Kleinas		Chaska, Minnesota
John Shuster	Chris Plys	Colin Hufman	Matt Hamilton	John Landsteiner	Duluth, Minnesota
Samuel Strouse (Fourth)	Kevin Tuma	Chase Sinnett (Skip)	Connor Kauffman	Caden Hebert	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wesley Wendling	Daniel Laufer	Nicholas Cenzalli	Shaheen Bassiri	Dylan Ciapka	Chaska, Minnesota

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings ^[6]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Team	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE
Daniel Casper	7	0	–	54	30	32	23	3	7
Korey Dropkin	5	2	1–0	52	26	30	17	4	14
John Shuster	5	2	0–1	55	35	30	24	8	6
Chase Sinnett	3	4	1–0	42	50	28	29	4	7
Ethan Sampson	3	4	0–1	40	40	28	28	4	7
Scott Dunnam	2	5	1–0	40	60	26	33	1	4
Timothy Hodek	2	5	0–1	51	52	28	29	3	9
Wesley Wendling	1	6	–	20	61	15	34	7	2

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Central Time (UTC−06:00). ^{[7] [8]}

Draw 1

Monday, January 27, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Daniel Casper	1	0	2	3	0	2	1	X	X	X	9
Wesley Wendling	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Timothy Hodek	0	3	0	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	10
Ethan Sampson	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	11

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Shuster	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	X	X	9
Chase Sinnett	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scott Dunnam	0	0	0	0	0	2	X	X	X	X	2
Korey Dropkin	2	1	2	3	3	0	X	X	X	X	11

Draw 2

Tuesday, January 28, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Chase Sinnett	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	8
Ethan Sampson	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wesley Wendling	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	0
Korey Dropkin	2	0	1	3	1	3	X	X	X	X	10

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Daniel Casper	2	0	3	0	1	0	2	2	X	X	10
Scott Dunnam	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Timothy Hodek	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	3
John Shuster	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	2	X	X	8

Draw 3

Wednesday, January 29, 8:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
John Shuster	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	7
Daniel Casper	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ethan Sampson	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	1	7
Scott Dunnam	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Timothy Hodek	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	2
Korey Dropkin	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	2	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wesley Wendling	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	5
Chase Sinnett	0	2	1	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	9

Draw 4

Wednesday, January 29, 4:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Korey Dropkin	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	1	X	X	8
Chase Sinnett	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Daniel Casper	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	6
Timothy Hodek	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wesley Wendling	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
Ethan Sampson	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Shuster	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	5	X	11
Scott Dunnam	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	6

Draw 5

Thursday, January 30, 10:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Timothy Hodek	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	8
Scott Dunnam	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	10

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Shuster	1	2	0	1	0	3	1	1	X	X	9
Wesley Wendling	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chase Sinnett	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	5
Daniel Casper	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Korey Dropkin	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	4
Ethan Sampson	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	5

Draw 6

Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wesley Wendling	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	X	X	X	2
Timothy Hodek	1	1	4	5	0	3	X	X	X	X	14

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scott Dunnam	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	6
Chase Sinnett	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Korey Dropkin	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	2	1	X	9
John Shuster	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ethan Sampson	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	4
Daniel Casper	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	5

Draw 7

Friday, January 31, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Ethan Sampson	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	5
John Shuster	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Korey Dropkin	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	X	X	3
Daniel Casper	3	1	0	3	0	2	X	X	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scott Dunnam	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	8
Wesley Wendling	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chase Sinnett	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	8
Timothy Hodek	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	9

Tiebreaker

Saturday, February 1, 7:30 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chase Sinnett	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	4
Ethan Sampson	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	3

Playoffs

	Page playoff system					Semifinal					Final
	1	Daniel Casper	7								1	Daniel Casper	6
	2	Korey Dropkin	4								2	Korey Dropkin	8
						2	Korey Dropkin	11
						3	John Shuster	3
	3	John Shuster	8
	4	Chase Sinnett	4

1 vs. 2

Saturday, February 1, 12:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Daniel Casper	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	7
Korey Dropkin	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4

3 vs. 4

Saturday, February 1, 12:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Shuster	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	X	X	8
Chase Sinnett	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	X	X	4

Semifinal

Saturday, February 1, 7:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Korey Dropkin	0	4	0	0	3	0	2	2	X	X	11
John Shuster	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	3

Final

Sunday, February 2, 12:00 pm

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Daniel Casper	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	6
Korey Dropkin	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	8

2025 United States Men's Curling Championship
Korey Dropkin 2nd United States Championship title

References

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