In September the current FWSF president Gordon West resigned, leaving me, Monica seal Vice President as the new president!
I have several goals for this year including making some updates to some of our policies for sanctioning tournaments and collecting FWSF memberships. I would also like to continue to grow our junior development program and hopefully get more clinics in the next year. If anyone is interested in heading up junior development for north or south Florida please reach out!
Our annual December meeting will be held December 7th. The general membership meeting starts at 11am at the Lake Myrtle complex in Auburndale.
If anyone has questions or comments or just wants to say hi, please email me at mmseal01@hotmail.com.
Looking forward to ski year 2020!
Monica Seal
U.S. water ski athlete Erika Lang (Gilbert, Ariz.) set a pending women’s world tricks record of 11,260 points on Saturday at the Sunset Fall Classic at Sunset Lakes and Jack Travers International Tournament Skiing in Groveland, Fla. Lang becomes the first woman to score 11,000 points in the tricks event.
Hall of Famer Jennifer Leachman LaPoint outlasted Phillipa Shedd in a battle of wills to win the fourth annual SportsInsurance.com Queen’s Cup at Little Mountain Lake in Maiden, N.C., on Sunday, Sept. 22. Both skiers ran into 38 off in the final three of four rounds of head-to-head competition, with Shedd scoring 1.5 at 38 in the final, and No. 1 seed LaPoint following her with 3 at 38.
The USA Water Ski & Wake Sports Foundation’s Hall of Fame Selection Committee is pleased to announce that Ed Brazil will be honored posthumously as the 2020 recipient of the USA Water Ski & Wake Sports Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Brazil, who passed away last April, will be recognized for his many contributions to the sport along with the 2020 Hall of Fame inductees – Shaun Murray, Mandy Nightingale and Joe Ray – and Award of Distinction recipients – April Coble-Eller, Gene Davis (posthumously), Nikki Lee, Don Mixon Jr., and Eddie Roberts – during the organization’s 38th annual induction ceremony on Saturday, May 2 at Walt Disney’s newly-designed Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla.