Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin 2011<unk>2012 ya ga Bottcher ya ci gaba da nasarar da ya gabata a 2012 Alberta junior provincials, ya kammala zagaye na zagaye tare da cikakken rikodin kuma ya ci Jordan Steinke na Dawson Creek a wasan karshe don lashe lambar yabo ta biyu ta kananan hukumomi. A 2012 Canadian Junior Curling Championships a Napanee, Ontario ƙungiyar ta gama zagaye na zagaye tare da rikodin 11<unk>1, ta sami damar zuwa wasan karshe na Kanada. Bottcher da kansa zai sami lambar yabo ta farko ta tauraro ta farko don mafi girman kashi na harbi a zagaye na zagaye. Bottcher zai ci nasara da Wark na Arewacin Ontario 9-6 don lashe gasar zakarun Kanada. Daga nan kungiyar za ta ci gaba zuwa gasar zakarun duniya na 2012 na Junior Curling.
a Östersund Sweden, inda ya gama zagaye na zagaye tare da rikodin 8<unk>1, kawai ya rasa ga Kyle Smith na Scotland 8<unk>4. A 1-2 shafi na wasan karshe 9<unk>3 nasara a kan Sweden ya ba Bottcher da tawagarsa kai tsaye zuwa wasan karshe. Sweden za ta doke Norway 8 zuwa 4 a wasan kusa da na karshe, inda za a sake yin wasa a wasan karshe. Bottcher zai zira kwallaye biyar a ƙarshen ƙarshen wasan karshe don nasarar 10<unk>4 kuma ya zama zakaran zakarun maza na duniya na 2012 - taken farko na zakarun zakarun duniya na maza na duniya na Kanada tun 2007.