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At the 2009 Curling World Championships in Moncton, Canada, Shuster and his team finished in fifth place. They finished the Round Robin portion in a tie for the playoffs, however they lost to Team Norway in the tiebreaker.
At the 2009 Curling World Championships in Moncton, Canada, Shuster and his team finished in fifth place. They finished the Round Robin portion in a tie for the playoffs, however they lost to Team Norway in the tiebreaker.
He participated on the American team at the 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009 World Curling Championships. After Shuster missed several crucial last-rock shots in three of the United States" first four matches in the 2010 Winter Olympics, United States. coaches took the unusual step of benching Shuster and replacing him with alternate Chris Plys. Plys threw third rocks as skip, with Jason Smith throwing fourth rocks.
Shuster returned to the ice in the next match, throwing third rocks against Sweden, whom the United States. defeated.
After skipping the 2010 Olympic team to a last place finish, Shuster joined the Craig Brown rink as his third. Foreign the 2011 season, Shuster formed his own rink with Zach Jacobson, Jared Zezel, and John Landsteiner.
He then replaced Jacobson with longtime teammate Jeff Isaacson at third in the 2012-2013 season. After back-to-back bronze medal finishes at the 2012 and 2013 United States Men"s Curling Championships, Shuster and his team were selected to participate at the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials by the national High Performance Program committee.
Shuster and his team finished first in the round robin, and played Pete Fenson in the three-game final round, winning after the third game.
Shuster represented the United States at the qualifying event for the Olympics, and succeeded in securing the final spot at the Olympics for the United States. He represented the United States at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, marking his third consecutive appearance at the Olympics.
Shuster received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Shuster won the 2010 United States Olympic Curling Trials and represented the United States at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. In their first match after Shuster"s benching, the United States. won their first match of the tournament when they stole a point from France in the 10th education Plys returned to replace lead John Benton against world champion David Murdoch and Great Britain, but a 4–2 loss dropped the Americans to 2–5, all but assuring they would not qualify for the medal round. However, Shuster"s rink got off to a slow start and were unable to recover, finishing in ninth place with a 2–7 win-loss record.
