Crew USA Wins 2026 Continental Surf Cup at Lakeside Surf

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Team USA Wins 2026 Continental Surf Cup at Lakeside Surf


Crew USA received its first Continental Surf Cup at Lakeside Surf in Chelan, Washington, defeating three-time defending champion Crew Europe 27.75 to 23.25. Money Hoover of O’ahu, Hawaii, received the ladies’s total title and Germany’s Lenny Weinhold received the boys’s total title. Hoover completed as Crew USA’s prime particular person factors contributor with 9.5 factors, whereas Weinhold secured his fourth particular person Continental Surf Cup title.

Crew USA entered the second day with a five-point lead earlier than Crew Europe decreased the margin to 1.5 factors forward of the ladies’s remaining.

Reese Bordner of Chelan opened the ladies’s remaining by touchdown her first air-reverse in a regular warmth and scoring an 8.83. Hoover practically matched her teammate’s rating on her first run, and each improved their scores on their second makes an attempt. Their outcomes secured the staff title earlier than Hoover’s fourth and remaining run.

Hoover received the utmost 9.5 staff factors obtainable through the competitors. She was paired along with her feminine teammates by way of the primary 4 rounds, with the group profitable every warmth level. Hoover additionally earned half a degree by profitable the very best trick competitors and 5 factors for the person title.

The end result was Hoover’s second Continental Surf Cup particular person championship and her third consecutive main title at Lakeside Surf following her win on the 2025 Gerry Lopez River Surf Invitational. Bordner contributed seven factors for Crew USA, together with three factors for ending second total.

Crew USA’s ladies received six of eight heats through the first 4 rounds. Maya Cowan of Chelan and Sierra White of Wenatchee additionally competed for the U.S. ladies, who contributed a mixed 14.25 factors.

Chelan native Reese Bordner strains up for her signature energy activate strategy to a 2nd place end within the Continental Surf Cup Labor Day Weekend at Lakeside Surf (Chelan, WA) Photograph by: Craig McMillen

The U.S. males received six of eight heats throughout the Browsing Traditional and Greatest Trick rounds. Jose “Cacaro” Lopez, the 2025 Panama Ocean Browsing Nationwide Champion and a Crew USA wildcard entry, received the boys’s greatest trick title and completed because the main factors contributor among the many U.S. males with 4.5 factors.

Money Eygabroad of Chelan contributed 4 factors and superior to the boys’s total remaining.

Crew Europe decreased the U.S. result in one level following the ladies’s comfort remaining. Ben Benson then completed fifth within the males’s competitors, growing the U.S. benefit to 1.5 factors heading into the general finals. Benson scored a 9.08 on his first run and improved his rating on his second and third runs.

Weinhold received the boys’s total remaining and his fourth particular person Continental Surf Cup title. Kielan Jardini of Haleiwa, Hawaii, helped Crew USA win three of his 4 heats and superior to the comfort remaining with Benson. Jax Oshiro-Labbe of O’ahu, Hawaii, was the youngest competitor at 12 years previous.

Elijah Moody of Chelan, Austin Fernand of Boise, Idaho, and Logan Watson of Chelan additionally contributed staff factors. Fernand and Moody every earned two factors. After 4 rounds, Crew USA entered the finals with a three-point lead. The staff completed with a 27.75 to 23.25 victory. The subsequent Continental Surf Cup is scheduled for Labor Day weekend in 2028 at Lakeside Surf.



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