Arizona Burn becomes ACL’s first all-women pro cornhole team
Arizona Burn is the ACL’s first all-women pro team, and it enters a 2026 chase with Caitlyn Allshouse and Rilee Schoff after a 2-13 start.
Arizona Burn is not entering the ACL as a novelty act. The league’s first all-women professional cornhole team is being built to contend, and the real test is whether a seven-player roster led by Gina Ramirez, Caitlyn Allshouse and Rilee Schoff can turn that statement into wins. Arizona Burn is the ACL’s most direct answer yet to a question the sport has not fully had to answer before: can an all-women roster compete immediately against the league’s established powers?
The roster is built around Ramirez, Allshouse, Kamryn Belvin, Sarah Cassidy, Samantha Finley, Schoff and Elizabeth Tennyson. That mix gives Arizona Burn championship pedigree and youth in the same locker room. Allshouse already owns the 2025 Women’s Singles World Championship, while Schoff is only 15 and already has a singles title of her own. That kind of top-end firepower matters in ACL team play, where one elite bag thrower can swing a bracket in a hurry.
Arizona Burn’s path runs through the ACL Pro Tour’s six Signature Opens, starting with Kansas City, then Cleveland, Fort Worth and Mesa, before the Pro Teams Championship is determined later in the season. The Mesa stop carries extra weight. On February 20, 2026, the ACL and Arizona Athletic Grounds announced a multi-year partnership to bring Signature Opens to Mesa from 2026 through 2028, and the 2026 event is scheduled for July 10-12. That makes Arizona Burn’s home-market stage one of the league’s most important dates on the calendar.
The standings show how much work is left. In the latest snapshot, Arizona Burn sits on 888 points with a 2-13 record, far behind the teams sitting atop the table and still chasing the asterisk that marks a Pro Teams Playoff berth at the ACL World Championships in July 2026. That is the part of the story that makes this team more than a symbol. It has to climb.
The stakes are bigger than one roster, too. The ACL’s 2025-2026 Pro Guide says top Pro Division players get guaranteed bracket access at Signature Opens, ACL-funded payouts, and broadcast and appearance opportunities, which is why team placement matters as much as individual results. Pro Teams Week 1 Finals already streamed on ESPN+ on March 21, 2026, and the Burn’s profile gives the league a new kind of centerpiece: an all-women team judged not by the idea behind it, but by the bags it puts on the board.
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