Online registration is available for the Shortline Shores Labor Day Tournament in St Marys, OH.

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UPDATE - Due to high water we've been forced to cancel use of the 2nd lake which means that the total number of slalom skiers on Saturday has been reduced to 32 skiers.  As of now, the slalom tournament is FULL.  Trick & Jump is still open for Sunday.

The Extreme Head-to-Head Challenge is our next local tournament coming up on August 30th in Cincinnati, OH.  The Head-to-Head Challenge will be like no other tournament you've ever been a part of!  Up to 50 slalom skiers will be seeded in a head-to-head, NCAA basketball style bracket, and ski against each other for the crown.  Extreme Watersports Center will be running two lakes and multiple boats.  Check out the Head-to-Head Challenge webpage for full details and online registration.

3 rounds of trick & jump will be run on Sunday, August 31st.

Details and Online Registration

Ohio had a great turnout of skiers for the Midwest Regionals despite the fact that they were over 14 hours away in Kansas!

Ohio had 6 Regional Champions...

Riley Daulton - Girls 2 Jump

Madison Schneider - Girls 2 Overall

Libby Van Treese - Women 4 Tricks

Dottie Troeger - Women 8 Slalom, Tricks, Overall

Mike Bruni - Men 3 Slalom

Ted McColley - Men 5 Slalom

Dottie also set new Regional Championship Records in both slalom and tricks and record in tricks for Record Capability Tournaments.

Mason and Dane Mechler, Madison Schneider and Riley Daulton were named to the Midwest Junior Development Team. 

Dane Mechler and Madison Schneider were also named to the Midwest All-Star Team, with Riley Daulton as an alternate.

A recap of our other skiers is as follows:

Boys 2 - Dane - 3rd Slalom, 5th Tricks, 4th Jump, 3rd Overall

Boys 3 - Mason - 7th Slalom, 3rd Tricks, 10th Jump, 2nd Overall

             Robbie Daulton - 9th Slalom, 11th Tricks, 7th Jump, 4th Overall             

             Zach Schneider - 18th Slalom, 10th Tricks, 4th Jump, 7th Overall

             Kyle Dammeyer - 16th Slalom

Men 1 - Ben Van Treese -7th Slalom, 5th Tricks, 7th Jump

            Chris Van Treese - 12th Slalom, 2nd Tricks

Men 3 - Mike Bruni - 1st Slalom

            Kurt Mechler - 9th Slalom

Men 4 - Bob Axe - 17th Slalom, 6th Tricks, 5th Jump, 2nd Overall

            Jeff Van Treese - 10th Tricks

            Michael Kerns - 16th Slalom

Men 5 - Ted McColley 1st Slalom

Men 7 - Chuck Holmes - 2nd Slalom, 4th Tricks, 3rd Jump, 2nd Overall

            Greg Wilson - 3rd Tricks

Girls 2 - Madison Schneider - 2nd Slalom, 3rd Tricks, 2nd Jump, 1st Overall

            Riley Daulton - 5th Slalom, 7th Tricks, 1st Jump, 2nd Overall

            Kristen Dammeyer - 11th Slalom

Girls 3 - Emily Van Treese - 12th Slalom, 2nd Tricks

Women 1 - Kristin McClure - 2nd Slalom, 2ns Tricks, 2nd Jump, 2nd Overall

                  Samantha Ruehl - 5th Slalom, 5th Tricks

Women 3 - Keli Kerns - 6th Slalom

Women 4 - Libby Van Treese - 1st Tricks

Women 8 - Dottie Troeger - 1st Tricks, 1st Slalom, 1st Overall

                  Pat Fisher - 3rd Slalom, 5th Tricks

Congratulations to everyone!

We had a great weekend for the State Championship at Pleasant Shores.  Records went down, PB's were set, and fun was had by all.  Pleasant Shores ran a flawless event as we flowed between all 3 events with no delays.  The INT held a 2 round slalom tournament from 6:00 to 9:00 on Friday night followed by a 2 round wakeboard tournament under the lights that went until 2:00 in the morning!

Your 2008 State Champions are...

M1 Slalom -  Adam Helbling - 2.5 @ 32 off

M1 Trick - Ben Van Treese - 4,180 points - NEW STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD

M1 Jump - Ben Van Treese - 103 feet

M1 Overall - Ben Van Treese - 2,005 NOPS points

M2 Slalom - Greg Kuenning - 2.5 @ 32 off

M2 Trick - Chaz Decker - 510 points

M2 Jump - Jon French - 104 feet

M2 Overall - Greg Kuenning - 1,181 NOPS points

M3 Slalom - Kurt Mechler - 2.5 @ 35 off

M3 Trick - Greg Lanich - 440 points

M3 Jump - Greg Lanich - 59 feet

M3 Overall - Greg Lanich - 596 NOPS points

M4 Slalom - Mike Kerns - 2 @ 35 off

M4 Trick - Jim McClure - 2,640 points

M4 Jump - David Pellegrene - 125 feet

M4 Overall - Jim McClure - 2,000 NOPS points

M5 Slalom - Greg Chapman

M7 Slalom - Chuck Holmes - 1.5 @ 28 off

M7 Trick - Greg Wilson - 1,540 points

M7 Jump - Chuck Holmes - 33 feet

M7 Overall - Chuck Holmes - 1,110 NOPS points

W1 Slalom - Kristen McClure - 3 @ 35 off

W1 Trick - Kristen McClure - 2,260 points

W1 Jump - Kristen McClure - 100 feet

W1 Overall - Kristen McClure - 2,863 NOPS points

W2 Slalom - Heather Kuenning 

W3 Slalom - Kelli Kerns - 2 @ 28 off

W4 Slalom - Debbie Daulton - 1.5 @ 28 off

W4 Trick - Libby Van Treese - 3,910 points - NEW STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD

W8 Slalom - Patricia Fischer - 3 @ 30 mph - NEW STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD

W8 Trick - Dottie Troeger - 1,310 points - NEW STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD

W8 Overall - Patricia Fischer - 1,049 NOPS points

W10 Slalom - Gene Daulton - 1 @ 22 off - NEW STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD 

There were 15 different clubs competing for the win this year, but no one could come close to beating Columbus Aqua!  Pleasant Shores came in an impressive second place with just 3 skiers edging out Extreme Watersports Center by less than 100 points!  Here are the final results...

There are tons of State Championship pictures in the Photo Album .  If you took pictures this weekend, send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it !

Complete Results 

Thank you to Jim McClure and his family for putting on such a great event! 

Keri McClure of Van Wert, OH is skiing on the US 17 to 20 Water Ski Team at the Pan Am Championships this week in Medellin, Colombia.  Keri sent the following letter to OWSA...

I would like to thank all those that have helped to support my trip to Colombia. I greatly appreciate the effort you have put forth, not only now, but throughout my skiing career. Without OWSA and its supporting members I wouldn’t be where I am today and I’m sure that is what many of our junior skiers would say as well because we are backed by an extraordinary skiing community, the Ohio family of water skiers. Now I have been given the opportunity to ski for our country and I owe it to each and every one of you for all the time and energy you have put in over the years to make Ohio a great place to learn and grow as a skier. Your generosity is what makes this sport great and I hope that myself and other junior skiers can continue that legacy. I now only ask that you wish me luck in Colombia and keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I wish those going to Regionals and Nationals the best of luck as well.  GO OHIO!

 

   Thank you,

 

   Keri McClure

Pat Ewald, President of the University of Cincinnati Waterski Team, skied away with the win on Saturday night under the lights to take home the 2008 Top Cat title.  Pat ran 4 buoys @ 28 off, 1 full buoy above his average, to edge out the other 15 Top Cat finalists.  Andrew Baker came in a close second running 2 @ 32 off, just .5 buoy under his average followed by Dave Young who came in 3rd.

It was once again a great tournament and thanks go out to Greg Lanich and Lake Lottawatta for putting on the event.  The finals were definitely fun to watch and it was great to see skier after skier competing against each other.  Click "Read More" for the rest of the details...