The 2026 United States Men's Curling Championship is being held from February 23 to March 1 at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. ^[1] The event is held in conjunction with the 2026 United States Women's Curling Championship. The winning rink will also represent the United States as the host team during the 2026 World Men's Curling Championship at the Weber County Ice Sheet in Ogden City, Utah.

Contents

• Qualification process
• Teams
• Round robin standings
• Round robin results
• Draw 1
• Draw 2
• Draw 3
• Draw 4
• Draw 5
• Draw 6
• Draw 7
• Playoffs
• 1 vs. 2
• 3 vs. 4
• Semifinal
• Final
• References

Qualification process

The following teams qualified to participate in the 2026 national championship: ^[2]

Qualification	Berths	Qualifying Team(s)
2025 United States Olympic Curling Trials	2*	John Shuster Andrew Stopera
Qualifying Event (St. Paul Cash Spiel)	1	Scott Dunnam
Last Chance Qualifier	2	Wesley Wendling Elliot Mansell
WCTRS Highest Ranked Team (December 26, 2025) [3]	3	Kevin Tuma Carson McMullin Timothy Hodek
TOTAL	8

4 Berths were initially awarded for qualifying for the 2025 United States Olympic Curling Trials. Team Daniel Casper declined their berth after qualifying to the 2026 Winter Olympics at the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event. ^[4] Team Caden Hebert declined their berth to play in the 2026 World Junior Curling Championship. The 2 declined berths plus an additional remaining berth were used to award berths the highest-ranked teams not already qualified determined based on team positions as of December 26th on the World Curling Team Ranking System (WCTRS)

Teams

The teams are listed as follows: ^[5]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Scott Dunnam	Cody Clouser	Alex Leichter	Andrew Dunnam	Shaheen Bassiri	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tim Hodek	Evan Workin	Josh Moore	Nathan Parry		Fargo, North Dakota
Elliot Mansell	Daniel Dudt	Sean Franey	Simon Jarrett		Denver, Colorado
Carson McMullin	Caiden Rose	Will Podhrasky	Ethan Macomber		Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Ethan Sampson	Wesley Wendling	Jacob Zeman	Marius Kleinas		Chaska, Minnesota
John Shuster	Chris Plys	Colin Hufman	Matt Hamilton		Duluth, Minnesota
Andrew Stopera	Thomas Howell	Mark Fenner	Lance Wheeler		Duluth, Minnesota
Samuel Strouse (Fourth)	Kevin Tuma (Skip)	Coleman Thurston	Connor Kauffman	Aaron Carlson	Chaska, Minnesota

Round robin standings

After Draw 6 ^[6]

Team	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE
John Shuster	6	0	–	48	22	25	17	2	9
Andrew Stopera	5	1	–	48	29	26	18	3	9
Kevin Tuma	4	2	–	44	33	24	24	2	5
Carson McMullin	3	3	–	38	42	27	26	2	12
Scott Dunnam	2	4	1–0	38	39	24	27	0	7
Wesley Wendling	2	4	1–0	43	45	28	24	2	10
Timothy Hodek	2	4	0–2	28	51	18	29	4	3
Elliot Mansell	0	6	–	28	54	20	27	3	4

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Eastern Time (UTC−05:00). ^{[7] [8]}

Draw 1

Monday, February 23, 7:00 pm

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

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Tuma	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	7
Carson McMullin	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Elliot Mansell	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	X	X	2
Andrew Stopera	2	3	0	3	2	0	X	X	X	X	10

Draw 2

Tuesday, February 24, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Timothy Hodek	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	3
Kevin Tuma	0	2	0	4	3	0	2	X	X	X	11

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

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scott Dunnam	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	6
Carson McMullin	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	8

Draw 3

Wednesday, February 25, 8:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Carson McMullin	3	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	9
Wesley Wendling	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	2	0	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Elliot Mansell	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	7
Scott Dunnam	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Andrew Stopera	4	0	1	0	2	0	4	X	X	X	11
Timothy Hodek	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	X	3

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

Draw 4

Wednesday, February 25, 4:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scott Dunnam	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	5
Andrew Stopera	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	8

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wesley Wendling	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	5
Kevin Tuma	3	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	X	X	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Timothy Hodek	0	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	11
Elliot Mansell	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	7

Draw 5

Thursday, February 26, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Tuma	0	1	2	0	1	2	0	0	2	X	8
Scott Dunnam	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	X	5

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Elliot Mansell	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	X	5
Wesley Wendling	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	2	X	9

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

Draw 6

Friday, February 27, 4:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Elliot Mansell	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	5
Carson McMullin	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	3	9

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

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Andrew Stopera	2	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	X	8
Kevin Tuma	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	X	6

Draw 7

Saturday, February 28, 8:00 am

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

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Tuma											0
Elliot Mansell											0

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Carson McMullin											0
Andrew Stopera											0

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

Playoffs

	Page playoff system					Semifinal					Final
	1	John Shuster
	2	Andrew Stopera
	3	Kevin Tuma
	4

1 vs. 2

Saturday, February 28, 12:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Shuster											0
Andrew Stopera											0

3 vs. 4

Saturday, February 28, 12:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Tuma											0
											0

Final

Sunday, March 1, 12:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
											0
											0

2026 United States Men's Curling Championship
United States Championship title

References