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Officials signup for Regionals
http://www.laku.com/2009-signup.htm
2009 Regional Information
Information and Schedule Flyer PDF. Regional Qualification Cutoff date is June 24th, 2009
Congratulations
Steven Brooks and Erika Lang both just made the 09 USA Jr Water Ski team
Video from Big Dawg
Dave Miller sets Water Ski World Record (pending) at the June 14 Big Dawg Tournament. YouTube Video.
Tournament Season Has Started
Mens 9 skier Art Rodrigues rounds 2 buoy and heads for 3 buoy of the 6 buoy slalom course. Art is 79 years young and has been skiing most all of his life. Art was many of the skiers that skied the 2009 Margaritaville tournament at Bell Acqua Lake 2 over the weekend. If you haven't tried tournament skiing give it a try. You will have a great time!
2009 Water Ski Nationals
Check out all the information at the Official Nationals web site.
Notice to Scorers
All ZIP files from your tournaments get emailed to Laura Johnson. You do not need to send them to USA Waterski.
Help Send Our Friend Steve to the Disabled Worlds....
Hello
to All My Friends. I am training to compete in the most prestigious and competitive
event for Water Skiers with Disabilities. It is the 9th World Disabled Water
Ski Championships and they will be held in Vichy, France August 30- Sept 6,
2009. I am planning on retiring from International Competition after this tournament.
I have been truly honored and blessed to have been able to compete at this
level for 20 years. I plan to be on my very best ski game when the time comes
for the competition, I am training hard now. I need your help to represent
the USA in Vichy, France and be the best skier I can be. As the economy has
hit everyone hard, it is hard for me to even ask for your help. I must humbly
ask for your support if am going to be able to get there. Forward this on to
anyone who can donate $10 to $20 dollars so I can represent the USA as a member
of the US Disabled Water Ski Team. 300 donations at $20 dollars is what I need
to get there. Please Help, and get as many friends to chip in as possible.
The US Team is poised to win the GOLD and be the number 1 team in the world.
We need to win the Gold back from the British and take it HOME to the USA where
it belongs. Here is my website where you can make a contribution using Pay
Pal. Please let me know if you have any problem with Pay Pal. If you prefer
sending check, the directions on how to do that are on my website as well.
Go to www.stevehornsey.com and help me do my part to capture the GOLD at the
9th World Disabled Water Championships
All donations are tax deductible. Thank you very much in advance for your support.
Steve Hornsey
Access Leisure Program Coordinator,
City of Sacramento, Department of Parks and Recreation
Paralympic Sport Sacramento
Sports and recreation for people with disabilities
(916) 808-2340
www.accessleisuresac.org
Announcing the pilot release of WSTIMS For Windows
A new pilot version of WSTIMS is available. Read all about it on our Officials Page.
2009 Southern California Jr. Development Clinics
Imperial Lakes, June 24-25, Arvin June 22-23, June 25-26 Newberry Springs. For more information download the Registration form.
Good Luck to Western Region Masters Competitors!
Erika Lang - third place in tricks and moving on to finals; Michael Stevenson first place in jump also moving on to finals tomorrow! Congrats to Makayla Haw on her 124' jump today. Way to go juniors!
Bell Acqua Water Ski Clinics
Here are the details:
Where: Bell Acqua Lake 1
JUMP CLINICS - Mike Kusiak Coaching
Saturday May 23 9:00 AM
Thursday June 11 9:00 AM
Thursday July 9 9:00 AM
SLALOM CLINICS - Mike Kusiak Coaching
Sunday May 24 9:00 AM
Friday June 12 9:00 AM
Friday July 10 9:00 AM
For further clinic details please contact Clinic Coordinator Troy Smith, (916) 335-9163, or tsmith@sgwatersports.com. Advertisement for the clinics is found on page 47 in the Regional Guide.
Calling All Safety Directors
There are still have two Appointed Safety spots open at Nationals in West Palm Beach, Fl in August. There must be two out there someplace that would like their room paid, onsite food / drink paid and the fan favorite, t & polo shirts for the week. We do not care from what Region you come from, we just need two of you to come and help. We also can use volunteer help on site. If you have a few hours to give and want credit for working a Nationals, here's your chance. Please contact me or Terry Dlugosh, Chief Safety Director, (Terry.Dlugosh@jedunn.com) ASAP if you can help. Thanks.. Jim Babcock, Chair AWSA Safety Committee
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.
Coming Soon: T-Shirts!
Check it out: www.awsawest.org/teamSKI
WSTIMS - Release 3.56a as of May 19, 2009
The 2009 release of WSTIMS is now finalized and available for your download and usage. One thing of note, the tournament archive is now a .zip file, not an .lzh file. The archive will be saved to the drive that you have noted in your WSTIMS hardware settings. Please email that entire archive to Laura Johnson. This applies to all AWSA and NCWSA tournaments.
Also, a new addition to the upload process - the seeding representative (Laura) will be notified of missing paperwork in the zip archive and the resultant missing information will be emailed to the tournament organizer and the chief scorer. Missing information includes the officials credit file and it will determine whether or not chief official information has been documented. If you need assistance with properly documenting chief official credit, contact Laura. For all missing tournament paperwork, please submit it via postal mail or email to Traci Baylon at HQ.
There are other updates this year to WSTIMS. Be sure to review the "What's New" material in the User Guide. Download here.
2009 Regional Guide Missing Page 74
The 2009 Regional Guide is missing 4 tournaments. You can download that page here. This page includes tournaments for August 1 & 2, 2009.
- GOODE UTAH STATE CHAMPIOSHIPS 09W095, 8/1 - 8/1
- KODIAK CANNONBALL 09W106, 8/1 - 8/1
- BLACK BUTTE RANCH CLASSIC DAY ONE 09W108, 8/1 - 8/1
- Mint Lake One Day 09W086
The complete Western Region Tournament Guide has been posted and is available for download as a PDF.
JR Development News - Get all the latest JR Development News. Visit our Junior Page
Johnnie Matranga received an Award of Distinction at the Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony at AWSEF Hall of Fame and Museum, April 18, 2009. Complete story at AWSEF Web Site. Also included from the Western Region were Mike Murphy Canyon Lake, CA - Jaap Suyderhoud, Posthumous. See all the photos on our Picasa Site.
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
Important Notice For AWSA Officials
American Water Ski Association officials, drivers, judges and scorers should
note – AWSA Rule 9.09(a) outlines a new standard for the communication
and input of jump times, newly revised for the 2009 season.
Read all of Important
Notice For AWSA Officials
Officials' Downgrades Postponed Until 2010
USA Water Ski has decided to postpone officials' downgrades for 2009.
No official will be downgraded this spring. However, USA Water Ski will be
calculating downgrades for 2010 in the fall. Notifications will be sent to
all officials in danger of downgrade in late November or early December. These
will include all judges, drivers, scorers for the American Water Ski Association
and the American Barefoot Club; all drivers for the National Show Ski Association,
United States Hydrofoil Association and USA Wakeboard; and safety officials
for all sport disciplines.
Due to the high cost of mailing downgrade notices, USA Water Ski is creating an automated officials' downgrade notification process whereby an e-mail will be sent to each official in jeopardy of downgrade, directing them to log into the "Members-Only" section to view their downgrade report. However, this process is not yet complete, and it is too late in the year to allow adequate time for notifying officials and event organizers of rating downgrades. As a result, the downgrades have been postponed for 2009.
Please be on the lookout for some exciting information for officials coming soon in future editions of the USA Water Ski E-Blast!
Wayne Canfield
Wayne Canfield was recently diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Details and information are available at Wayne's CaringBridge website at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/waynecanfield.
Please keep both Wayne and Barbara in your prayers. They know how much everyone cares for them and that they have a huge family pulling for them.
Help Support Cancer with a Wayne Canfield Bracelet. Please visit his site
at WayneCanfield.com
New information from the Towboat Committee
Read all about it on their site
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