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Kenny Kaestner
USAWS
Volunteer Coach Of the Year |
2008 USAWS Coaches Of The
Year
Two out of three of the coaching awards given this year were
awarded to barefooter! Brandi Hunt (Clermont, Fla.), Gary
"Swampy" Bouchard (Winter Haven, Fla.) and
Ken Kaestner (Jefferson, Wis.) have been selected USA
Water Ski’s 2008 Coaches of the Year.
- Brandi Hunt was named National Coach of the Year
- Gary Bouchard was named Developmental Coach of
the Year
- Kenny Kaestner was named Volunteer Coach of the Year.
For all the details on this story
click here.
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| Kieth St.Onge jumping in Helena,MT |
USAWS Athletes Of The Year Selected
Keith St. Onge of Winter
Haven, Fla. and April Coble-Eller of Lillington, N.C. have been selected as
USA Water Ski's 2008 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively. The
Mad City Ski Team (Madison, Wis.) earned USA Water Ski's 2008 Team of the
Year honors. USA Water Ski's Awards Committee selected the athletes and
teams of the year. The athletes and teams will now be considered for the
United States Olympic Committee's SportsMan, SportsWoman and Sports Team of
the Year awards, which will be announced in January.
Click here to
read the entire article.
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The Blue Moo waiting to be skied |
Lake Elmo Sports Barefoot National Championships BeginThe
US Barefoot National Championship began Wednesday August 13th at the "Blue
Moo." This beautiful site is found just outside of
Black River Falls, Wisconsin
, Wisconsin and being donated to the event by the Blake Heller Family.
The
Final Overall Results features skier from the very youngest to the very
senior such as Jim Boyette and John McDonald. For the individual events use
the following links:
Tradition at this event, has
every skier randomly assigned to a
barefoot teams. There will be either 9 or 10 skiers on each team.
The teams are then auctioned off with have of the money being paid out in
prize money and the other half will support the US Barefoot Teams attending
the World Championships in January.
Scoring for the team is the similar to the World Championships.
Each team member's overall score (from each event) is used in the scoring.
The top 5 scores from each event are included in the overall for each team.
This is a lot of fun because a Junior skier can be just as (or more)
important than the World Champion Keith
StOnge.
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| Southern Region Raises $4500 for
Scholarship (ABC South Regional Championships)
Betsy Anderson, who is the ABC representative to the American Waterski
Education Foundation (AWSEF), is sharing some great news. At the Southern
Regional Championships this weekend, $4500 was raised to insure the Jennifer
Odom/ David Kammerer Scholarship continues indefinitely! Five individuals
donated the funds which will be sent to the AWSEF and used as an endowment
for a scholarship in remembrance of Jennifer and David.
Betsy, thanks for driving that and a special thanks to the five individuals
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2008 WORLD BAREFOOT WATER SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS
Qualifying Scores Changed!
The 2008 World Open, Junior, and Senior
Barefoot Championships will be held at the beautiful venue of Lake
Inspiration, Otaki, New Zealand. The dates for this event will be January
25- February 1, 2009.
Please make sure
to join us on placid Lake Inspiration - the name! As
of February 13, 2008 there has been an adjustment made in the qualifying
scores.
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