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Western Region Members Honnored
The USA Water Ski Awards Reception was held Saturday, January
30th in Polk City, Florida. Wayne and Barbara Canfield received the Award
of Merit. Bill Von Zabern received the "That's Incredible" Award
from both the Hydrofoil Organization as well as USAWS. (Wayne and Bill
both posthumbously.)
Barbara and Karen, as well as many members of the VonZabern
family, were there to receive the awards presented by the organization.
It was a celebratory but emotional night for all. Both received standing
ovations.
31st Collegiate Water Ski Nationals - Officials Honored
The 2009 Bill Stevenson outstanding Driver Award was presented to Barry Young, and the 2009 Phil Chase Most Outstanding Official Award was presented to Gail Heinrich. The awards were voted on by the appointed drivers and appointed officials, respectively.
Brian Detrick of Saint Mary's College won Outstanding Male Leader, and Kelly Thees of WWU won Outstanding Female Leader from NCWSA.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo received the NCWSA Team of the Year Award and Terry Goodman for Outstanding Coach. Congratulations everyone!
AWSA Senior Judges & Scorers Clinic Set
The American Water Ski Association
will host its National Senior Judges and Scorers Clinic, March 12-14,
at the Fairfax Hampton Inn in Fairfax, Va.
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of AWSA Senior Judges & Scorers Clinic Set
2010 Regional Guide
Any and all items to be included in this years guide must be received by Laura Johnson no later than January 15. This includes jr development, ads and announcements.
2010 Regionals
July 21 - 24. Broadside Harbor Caldwell, Idaho. Official Web Site. Online Registration will be provided as soon as it becomes available.
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2010 Nationals
The American Water Ski Association has released the tournament schedule for the 68th GOODE Water Ski National Championships. The world's largest three-event water ski tournament will take place on two lakes, Aug. 8-14, 2010, at Waters Edge in Wilmington, Ill. To download the schedule, click here (PDF).
To visit the official Web site of the Nationals, click here.
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WSTIMS For Windows Version 1.0.0.64 Upgrade Announcement
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Attention: Senior and Regular officials
Anyone interested in working
the 2010 Regional or National tournament in an assigned or appointed
position should contact Deb Parsons at: broharbor@yahoo.com.
The Western regional council will be selecting these officials' assignments
at the winter regional council meeting held in January of 2010.
Senior three event drivers will be selected by the Regional Drivers Committee.
Janice Bachmeier - Movie Star
See her in a movie for K2 skis -www.k2skis.com/home - Petunias in the Snow
2009 Coaches Of The Year Selected
Western Region's own Terry Goodman (Bellingham, Wash.) was named Developmental Coach of the Year. Terry helped coach the University of San Diego and Western Washington University water ski teams. He also coached at several clinics throughout the country. Several of his students competed in the Water Ski World Championships and 67th GOODE Water Ski National Championships. Complete story.
Regional Winners
Please email a picture of yourself to be included in the Regional Guide to Stacy Holbert by the end of November at the latest. Send to: bholbertii@comcast.net
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.
Attention registrars for upcoming 2010 ski year tournaments
If you downloaded a registration template prior to this morning, August 19, please download it again. The process has been completed to convert graduating skiers to their new divisions. Do not use templates from the 2009 ski year
Online Tournament Registration Flyer
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Tournament Safety Checklist
Download Tournament
Entry Form and Waiver
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.
Coming Soon: T-Shirts!
Check it out: www.awsawest.org/teamSKI
The complete Western Region Tournament Guide has been posted and is available for download as a PDF.
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