The Cape Coral Rowing Club’s Women’s Pair \u2014\u00a0Brooke Bunch and Sofia Mayus \u2014 placed second in USRowing’s Southeast Regional Championship Regatta this past weekend and earned a bid to the USRowing’s Youth National Championship Regatta.\u00a0 The duo won the Florida State Championship in this event two weeks ago and will now move on to race in youth rowing’s biggest event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE CAPE CORAL ROWING CLUB<\/p>\n
A Cape Coral Rowing Club\u2019s Women\u2019s Pair took home the silver at Regionals this past weekend.<\/p>\n
Brooke Bunch and Sofia Mayus, who won the Florida State Championship in this event two weeks ago, will now move on to race in youth rowing\u2019s biggest event \u2014 the USRowing\u2019s Youth National Championship Regatta.<\/p>\n
USRowing\u2019s Southeast Regional Championship Regatta was held Mother\u2019s Day weekend at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota.<\/p>\n
This race draws competitors from seven\u00a0states in the southeast plus Puerto Rico, New\u00a0Orleans and the U.S. Virgin Islands.\u00a0The 2026 regatta included 54 clubs and 490 race entries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bunch and Mayus placed second in the regional championship, earning a bid to Nationals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To race Youth Nationals, athletes must qualify in their respective regional championship regatta.\u00a0These races are held in six regions across the nation \u2014 Southwest, Central, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Northwest, and Northeast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2025, Youth National Championships featured 230 rowing clubs racing in 881 events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year, the regatta will once again be held at Nathan Benderson Park with the 2026 competition taking place from June 11 through June 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape Coral Rowing Club’s Women’s Pair \u2014\u00a0Brooke Bunch and Sofia Mayus \u2014 placed second in USRowing’s Southeast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-266762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}