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Women's World Match Racing Tour Event 2 - 2025 Santa Maria Cup in Annapolis, USA - Overall

by Women's WMRT 7 Jun 22:28 PDT June 4-7, 2025
2025 Santa Maria Cup Champions Allie Blecher, Ali Blumenthal Stokes, Beka Schiff and Rose Edwards © Ted Morgan

USA's women's match racing team Team Baam skippered by Allie Blecher from California (crew Beka Schiff, Rose Edwards, and Ali Blumenthal Stokes) won the 2025 Santa Maria Cup today, defeating Vela Racing team skippered by Nicole Breault (crew Evan Brown Cahill, McKenzie Wilson, Julie Mitchell) 3-0 in a tense light-air final on the Severn River.

The Santa Maria Cup is one of the longest running women's match racing regattas in the USA for over 20 years, hosted by the Eastport Yacht Club and an official event of the Women's World Match Racing Tour since 2022.

As forecast earlier in the week, there was a long wait for the breeze to arrive before the petit-final and final matches were able to take place. As the sea breeze arrived early in the afternoon, the final four matches headed to the racecourse in front of the famous U.S Naval Academy.

Defending Santa Maria Cup champions, Team Wings from Sweden skippered by Anna Östling, were keen to make amends in their petit-final match against Australian Easy Tiger Racing skippered by Juliet Costanzo. Östling and crew had a disappointing day yesterday as they were narrowly beaten by Allie Blecher and Team Baam USA in the semi-finals to miss their chance at defending their title. The Swedish team defeated the Australians 2-0 in the first-to-two points semis to secure the last podium place.

Sadly, it was also a disappointing day for Nicole Breault and the Vela Racing team in the final. Despite the challenging light-air conditions, their opponents Team Baam USA were able to find the extra boat speed to defeat Breault in three straight wins and take the Santa Maria Cup title.

"We are delighted with the win today!" said Team Baam USA's skipper Allie Blecher. "It was super light and very stressful in each match, but I am fortunate to have a team to keep me calm and collected, and we were just able to keep our bow down and stay ahead in each race."

"The better team won today" added Breault. "The conditions were very tricky and although we were keeping close, Allie and her team were just able to extend where it mattered, congratulations to them!"

Pictured from left to right (back row) Principal Race officer Sandy Grosvenor, Sweden's Team Wings Linnea Wennergen, Anna Östling, Svea Sahlin, Annika Carlunger, Vela Racing's Nicole Breault, Mckenzie Wilson, Evan Brown Cahill, Julie Mitchell, Bob Schabel Commdore of Eastport Yacht Club (front row Team Baam USA's Beka Schiff, Allie Blecher, Ali Blumenthal Stokes and Rose Edwards)

The 2025 Santa Maria Cup marks the second stage of the 2025 Women's World Match Racing Tour with Nicole Breault and Vela Racing topping the leaderboard with a combined 22 points including their second-place finish at the opening event in San Francisco last week. Blecher and Sweden's Anna Östling move to second and third on the leaderboard which will count the top three results of the five-event tour concluding in Bermuda in late October.

"It has been a very exciting start to the 2025 women's world tour with these two back-to-back US events" added Women's Tour Executive Director James Pleasance. "San Francisco and Annapolis are both ideal match racing venues and it has been great to have over fifty female athletes compete across both events. We are now looking forward to the third stage of the tour in Marstrand Sweden at the end of this month."

2025 Santa Maria Cup Overall Results:

1. Allie Blecher, Beka Schiff, Rose Edwards, Ali Blumenthal Stokes
2. Nicole Breault, Evan Brown Cahill, McKenzie Wilson, Julie Mitchell
3. Anna Östling, Linnéa Wennergren, Annika Carlunger, Svea Sahlin
4. Juliet Costanzo, Sarah Parker, Clare Costanzo, Rachel Bower
5. Lindsey Baab, Kate Shiber, Ayaka Okawa, Abigayle Konys Moreno
6. Bridget Groble, Morgan Collins, Marley Mais, Madison Bashaw
7. Caroline Bayless, Emma Montgomery, Noelle Owen, Savannah Young
8. Ella Willcox, Gwynie Dunleavy, Miia Newman, Sydney Monahan

For full results, see www.matchracingresults.com

For more information on the Women's World Match Racing Tour, visit womenswmrt.com.

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