The New Bridge facilities allowed matches to be played in the evenings under the lights.
Leading Ladies Aiken triumphs in national championship By Emily Dewey
Six teams of young women faced off at the New Bridge Polo Club in Aiken, South Carolina, May 1822, for the chance to be crowned the Girls’ National Interscholastic Champion. Poway Polo Club (Remi Glasgow, Marisa Carelli, Jasmine Lu, Sydney Morris) from Poway, California, coached by Sherry Sheldon Gibson, and Gardnertown Polo Club (Elizabeth Leudesdorff, Saralyn Painter, Mary Duncan, Sammi Iahn) from Newburgh, New York, coached by Bill Dencker, were the first teams to step into the beautiful outdoor arena. Saralyn Painter put Gardnertown on the board with two scores from the field. Morris traded goals with Duncan, finishing 28 POLO P L A Y E R S E D I T I O N
off the first chukker’s scoring with Gardnertown sporting a three-goal lead. Gardnertown held Poway scoreless in the second and increased its lead to eight at the half with scores from Duncan and Painter. The shutout continued into the third chukker while Painter continued her barrage of goals, adding four points to Gardnertown’s tally, including a two-pointer. Painter and Morris traded field goals in the fourth before Leudesdorff’s shot found the goal a final time for Gardnertown. Lu added a final goal for Poway before the horn sounded, but Gardnertown had sealed the win, 15-3. The win earned Gardnertown a spot in the semi-final round against top-seeded Aiken
