Many of the sector’s top girls polo players, consisting of 10-goaler Nina Clarkin and 9-goaler Hazel Jackson, may be participating in the extremely-aggressive 22-aim U.S. Open Women’s Championship. The eight groups will play their preliminary video games at Port Mayaca Polo Club in Okeechobee beginning on Saturday, March sixteen with the final at International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington on Saturday, March 23 at eleven a.M. It is the primary time the very last could be at IPC, 3667 a hundred and twentieth Ave. S., after taking location at the Houston Polo Club in view that 2011. The U.S. Open Women’s Championship has been performed on and off on account that 1937. Clarkin and Jackson will be joined by using other installed stars, including 8-goalers Lia Salvo and Cande Fernandez-Araujo of Argentina and Sarah Wiseman of England. Other top U.S. Players are taking part to encompass 6-goalers Tiffany Busch and Dawn Jones, 4-goalers Malia Bryan, and Mia Bray and Wellington’s Melissa Ganzi, co-founding father of the Grand Champions Polo Club.
Keep an eye out for a pair of up-and-coming stars with familiar surnames – Hope Arellano, the 15-year-vintage daughter of pinnacle U.S. Player Julio Arellano, and Mia Cambiaso, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Argentine celeb Adolfo Cambiaso, the quality player inside the global. Cambiaso, rated at six desires, will play for Hawaii Polo Life with Clarkin, three-goaler Pam Flanagan and a couple of of-goaler Anja Jacobs. Arellano, estimated at five goals, will perform on Cabo Wabo with Jackson, five-goaler Gillian Johnston, patron of the Coca-Cola crew, and a couple of of-goaler Ronnie Duke. Jackson changed into a critical member of remaining yr’s champion. Arellano won the event in 2017 with San Saba as a 14-yr-old. “This event is the best-rated ladies’ match inside the United States which makes it very aggressive and a laugh to play,” said Arellano, who splits her time between Wellington and Aiken, South Carolina. “I am very excited to play this year; I have an entertaining team.” In polo, males and females frequently play at the same crew. Several of those competing in the U.S. Women’s Open is also gambling within the high-intention tournaments this 12 months in Wellington, together with Johnston, Ganzi and Bray. And there are two separate handicap structures – one for ladies-simplest tournaments and one for co-ed sports.
