{"id":381522,"date":"2026-04-15T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:34:09","slug":"americas-cup-emirates-team-new-zealand-confirm-new-additions-to-sailing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381522\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand confirm new additions to sailing team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woodall and Sanderson are the latest additions to the sailing team,<\/a> after Australian Iain Jensen was confirmed in late January.<\/p>\n

The pair have been working with Team New Zealand on a trial basis with a focus on the Women\u2019s America\u2019s Cup campaign, which they are expected to play key roles in.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be brought into the sailing team for the 38th America\u2019s Cup is a pretty surreal experience,\u201d Woodall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been through quite a big trial period over the past few months and now to officially be part of the team is a really cool moment. We\u2019ve learned so much over the past few months, just starting to get stuck into it all. Can\u2019t wait to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining the wider sailing squad for the main America\u2019s Cup team<\/a> will not impact their availability for the women\u2019s team and the pair could feature in racing when Team New Zealand take to the water in Cagliari for next month\u2019s preliminary regatta.<\/p>\n

The event on the Italian island of Sardinia will allow teams to enter two AC40 crews; one made up of sailors from the main America\u2019s Cup team and another of youth (25 and under) and women\u2019s team sailors.<\/p>\n

That second team could, in theory, be fully crewed by female sailors if two of them were 25 or younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s an awesome time to be a female in the sport at the moment,\u201d Woodall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess we\u2019re really fortunate to be stepping into that phase. It\u2019s pretty incredible that Emirates Team New Zealand are taking us on board in a fulltime role. It gives us more experience and exposure, so to now get that opportunity to dig in and learn as much as we can to really bridge that gap and hopefully come the end of next year, come the next campaign, we can be challenging on a performance level as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woodall and Sanderson are the latest additions to the sailing team, after Australian Iain Jensen was confirmed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[134201,28174,27245,5532,29861,10542,10797,154132,170,95658,20300,117,111,43,139,69,18245,7187,165,61,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-381522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-additions","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-beyond","11":"tag-boat","12":"tag-confirm","13":"tag-cup","14":"tag-cycle","15":"tag-defenders","16":"tag-development","17":"tag-emirates","18":"tag-extending","19":"tag-new","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-sailing","25":"tag-team","26":"tag-their","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}