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Safety Clinic at Ironwood on August 28th, Grass Roots Tournament on August 29th
If you want to stay overnght you can enjoy the "primitive camping" at Ironwood on Saturday night and stay to ski in the tournament on Sunday
More details about the clinic will be distributed as the event gets closer. But for now here's a few basics:
- The clinic will last about 4 - 6 hours (depending on the ultimate number of people that sign up).
- Some time will be spent on land discussing safety items, some time will be spent in the water learning various water rescue techniques.
- The instructor will be Harley Wallace, a San Diego area skier who is a paramedic and one of the few people in Southern California that has the credentials to instruct one of these clinics.
- Cost will be approximately $20 - $25 per person. $15 goes straight to USA Water Ski. Any amount over $15 will be used to cover things such as boat gas, and gas for our instructor to drive up to Ironwood.
- Also, this date is the day before Ironwood's Summer Splash Tournament (a "grassroots" / Class F tournament), so if you're going to attend, please make a weekend out of it, and ski the tournament! The tournament is a lot of fun every year, and we always attract some first time tournament skiers, so it's great to have some experienced AWSA folks around to help make it a fun experience and show what a great time we have at tournaments.
If you are interested in attending, please email Chris McKown at chrismckown81@hotmail.com. Space will be somewhat limited, however, if there is great interest, we will do our best to track down additional safety equipment and instructional help to accommodate a larger group.
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2010 US Nationals
The Nationals will be held Aug. 8-14 at Waters Edge in Wilmington, Ill. Visti the official Nationals website at www.waterskinationals.com. To register online at click here.
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Request for AWSEF Donations in Behalf of Jim Lang
HALL OF FAME State Legacy Ladder
Immortalize Jim Lang Water Ski Legacies forever!
You can send your donation to: AWSEF 1251 Holy Cow Road, Polk City, Florida, 33868-8200.
Or call in your donation to Carole Lowe @ USA Water Ski 1-800-533-AWSA
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Lang Lake Tournaments Cancelled
SAC State Open July 31
Brian Holm set a new Jump record at the Rainier Lake Open, Saturday June 19th
M5 Division jump of 145 feet, 44.3 meters
6 U.S. Athletes Win Junior U.S. Open Titles
Michaela Cooper (Moneta, Va.), Makayla Haw (Rio Linda, Calif.), Lauren Morgan (Odessa, Fla.), Storm Selsor (Fremont, Calif.), Brooks Wilson (Winter Springs, Fla.) and K.C. Wilson (Winter Springs, Fla.)
The complete story is posted on USA Water Ski
2010 Masters
"Lang, of Gilbert, Ariz., shattered the junior women's tricks' course record at Robin Lake and won her first career Junior Masters' title by tallying 8,320 points. The 14-year-old Lang eclipsed the previous course record of 7,670 points set by France's Iris Cambray in 2009Lang, of Gilbert, Ariz., shattered the junior women's tricks' course record at Robin Lake and won her first career Junior Masters' title by tallying 8,320 points. The 14-year-old Lang eclipsed the previous course record of 7,670 points set by France's Iris Cambray in 2009".
Also competting in womens slalom was Makayla Haw of Sacramento, CA.
Western Region Wins NCWSA All-Stars
The Western Region won the 2010 Collegiate All-Stars Water Ski Championships, held May 22-23 at Shortline Lake in Elk Grove, Calif. Hosted by St. Mary's College of California, the 16th annual event included the top-10 men and top-10 women from each of the National Collegiate Water Ski Association's four regions vying for a team title and individual titles in slalom, tricks, jumping and overall.
The Western Region tallied 9,370 points in earning the team title. The Midwest Region, the defending champion, finished runner-up with 8,600 points, followed by the South Central Region (3,140 points) and the Eastern Region (1,150 points).Arizona State's Storm Selsor and Amanda Amos won the men's and women's overall titles, respectively. Selsor also won the men's jumping (165 feet) title and tied Brian Detrick of St. Mary's of California for the men's slalom title (3-1/2 buoys at 38 feet off). Arizona State's Skip Wintter won men's tricks (3,820 points). Amos also won the women's slalom (1-1/2 buoys at 35 feet of) and tricks (2,210 points) titles.
Terry Winter Coaching at Sunset Ranch
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Officials Rating Renewals
Officials Rating NoticeAppointed Safety @ 68th US Nationals
Attn Safety Directors (Third and final Call) & Coordinators (First and only Call), After this request, if no takers, I will be asking the Midwest Region for my needed Appointed Safety for Nationals. We are still in need of one "full tournament" or two "half tournament" appointed safety directors. The reason for this is that we will be in Wilmington, IL on a two lake site from 8/8 - 8/14 2010. If you are interested in a fun filled time with some really great people (the LOCs), please contact me ASAP. There are the usual hotel room, food and everyones favorite Ts & polos for the week. Do contact me if you have questions. We also need anyone that would like to just volunteer some quality hours with us during the tournament. You will get credit for working a Nationals with your volunteer work. Thanks...... Jim Babcock, Chief Safety
Attention Western Region Skiers
Many of the tournaments in the 2010 Regional Guide are missing the information
in the "Entry Fee" section in the Regional Guide.
The correct information for each tournament can be viewed by clicking
on the "Tournaments" section on the left side of this website.
Additionally, the updated information is available by downloading the "2010 regional guide" here.
WSTIMS release 3.57
Is available soon at http://www.awsaeast.org/official/download.php
Trick Videos from 2009 Regionals Posted
The trick runs from Regionals are posted here. We did did not get all the runs so we are missing a few. We are working on posting the scores.
A note from Scott Snape, chair of the AWSA Rules Committee
Some tournament sponsors have allowed skiers to ski more than one classification of tournament at a time, which is violation of Rule 1.02
Rule 1.02 "...A skier may not ski in more than one class in the same event in the same round at one tournament and may not ski more than three rounds in an event at a tournament..."
Examples include but are not limited to:
Skiing a round class C, in slalom until they miss and then letting them continue
that round under class F.
Skiing a round class C, and if the skier does not like their score, then switching
the classification for that round to class F.
It is the intention that a skier declares which class he is skiing for that round before he takes the water. Changes after the fact will not be allowed.
Judging Tips & Problems Discussion - Courtesy of Linda Hockenbery
Linda has added to her list of tips and suggestions. Check it out in the Official's Tower section.
Attention Tournament Sponsors
Please be reminded that ANY changes in officials, format, events or the number
of rounds must be approved by the EVP prior to the start of the tournament.
These requests should be brought up no later than 3 days prior to the start
of a tournament to allow time for review and approval.
Your area council person should be the first contact in this process as well.
Thank you,
Barry Young
2010 Open and Masters Mens Ratings for 2010
These have changed for 2010. Check the Ratings here.
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Notice to Scorers
All ZIP files from your tournaments get emailed to Laura Johnson. You do not need to send them to USA Waterski.
Doesn't it seem like there's a lot of bad news lately about people having cancer, MS, and other diseases? We've been supporting several different folks with their battles; it seemed time to band together and be united in our war on disease. We've created a site aimed at doing just that - TeamSki.
Check it out: www.awsawest.org/teamSKI
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New to Water Skiing?
Would you like to find out a little more about water ski clubs, tournaments and events? The USAWS Grassroots program has all the information you need. Click here for details or contact Kay Goodfellow