2020 Team Trials Selection Criteria

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Team Trials will be utilized to help select Team USA for the upcoming 2020 FISU World University Championships hosted by Sentosa Waterski Club in Dnipro, Ukraine. The most updated selection procedures can be found in the 2020 NCWSA Team Trials Selection Procedures document. The initial creation of the document (Sept 13, 2019) is pasted below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIg3GyOs92T9tP9BMM5Z1dhs9AWDPwYSagH9TICaTqk/edit?usp=sharing

The above document was updated on April 29, 2020 after several event adjustments needed to be made due to the extraordinary circumstances caused by COVID-19. Please refer to the document above for official guidelines, the original release remains below.

2020 NCWSA Team Trials Selection Procedures

FISU World University Championships

Team Description

A six member team will be selected to compete at the 2020 World University Championships.

Eligibility

Eligibility for selection to the US team shall be: 

  1. U.S. citizen. 
  2. Member (or former member) of an NCWSA team and a current member of USA Water Ski in good standing and must be at least 18 years old and no older than 25 years of age on the 31st of December of the year of the event; for 2020, athletes must be born between 01/01/1995 and 12/31/2002.
  3. Students who are currently officially registered as proceeding towards a degree or diploma at a university or similar institute whose status is recognized by the NCWSA.
  4. Former students of the institutions mentioned in c) above who have obtained their academic degree or diploma in 2019. 
  5. A skier will need to declare his / her intent to be considered for selection to the US World University Team in email to NCWSA Chairman Jeff Surdej (j_surdej@yahoo.com)  by April 30, 2020.

Slalom, Trick, and Jump Entry Qualifications to Enter Team Trials


SlalomTrickJump
Men5 @12m (1 @10.75m slalom only)4600 (5670 tricks only)148′ (176′ jump only)
Women5 @13m (3 @12m slalom only)3700 (5,000 tricks only)110′ (123’ jump only)
The above minimums are no longer necessary due to COVID-19 related team selection alterations. See Team Selection Google Doc.

A skier qualified in two events may ski in the third event. A skier qualified in only one event may ski only in that event.

  1. Women shall use the (5′) ramp unless they can show a certified result of a jump of (132′) on a (5.5’) ramp in which case they may opt to jump on a 1.65m (5.5′) ramp. 
  2. Men shall use the 1.65m (5.5’) ramp unless they can show a certified result of a jump of (177′) on a 1.65m in which case they may opt to jump on a (6′) ramp.

Selection procedures

  1. The team will be selected following team trials based on performances at:
    1. The two-round collegiate team trials 
    2. The most recent AWSA rankings list or the average of your top 2 Class “C, E, L or R” tournaments starting with 1/1/19 and the weekend before team trials inclusive, whichever is higher.
  2. Gender distribution shall be 4/2 or 3/3. 
  3. Team selection score in each event shall be the sum of 50% of the top score and 50% of the average score from the 3 rounds as defined in (1) and (2) below
    1. Top score: defined as the best score from (1) the 2-round team trials or (2) as stated above
    2. Average score – defined as the average of the scores from all 3 rounds.
    3. Team selection score = (Top score + Average score )/2
  4. Scoring shall be based on the 1,000-point system where, for each round, 1,000 points will be the highest base score of the skiers in each event. Base scores will stay the same throughout the tournament and will be determined according to 1-b in the selection procedure above. 
    Men’s Tricks: (Skier’s score x 1000) / (base score of top seed) 
    Women’s Tricks: (Skier’s score x 1000) / (base score of top seed) 
    Men’s Slalom*: (Skier’s score x 1000) / (base score of top seed) 
    Women’s Slalom*: (Skier’s score x 1000) / (base score of top seed) 
    Men’s Jump: (Skier’s score x 1000) / (base score of top seed) 
    Women’s Jump: (Skier’s score 1000) / (base score of top seed)
  5. The top man and woman skiers based on “overall score” will be selected first. “Overall score” is computed as the sum of all three “event scores”.
  6. The next skier will be the man or woman with the next highest “overall score”
  7. The 4th, 5th, and 6th skiers will be selected on the basis of “two event scores”, provided that there be no more than four skiers of any one sex. “Two event scores” is defined as the sum of the two highest “event scores” for a skier
  8. The skier with the highest “event score” in a single event, not already on the team, will be substituted for the 6th position (or 5th if substitution for the 6th would result in more than four skiers of one sex) provided that such a substitution would increase the team score as described in the selection procedures.
  9. The selection committee shall designate up to 4 alternates to the US team. The method of selecting these alternates will be at the discretion of the selection committee and not based on any fixed formula. Selected alternates will be given the opportunity of traveling with the team. However, it must be at their own expense unless they are called upon to compete, in which case they will be reimbursed for expenses beginning at the time they are officially called up.
  10. Disclaimer: In the event of unforeseen circumstances which, in the opinion of the selection committee, render these procedures clearly ineffective, the committee may amend these procedures as necessary to accomplish the goals of NCWSA with 2/3rds affirmative vote of the full committee.
  11. The US team selection for 2020 University Worlds and the alternates shall be designated as “Team University USA” This shall be the US University Team until the next team trials. 
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Adam Koehler

I am Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside and Bachelor's and Masters from Marquette University. I skied collegiately at Marquette and in 2009 I received the NCWSA Outstanding Leader Award. I was NCWSA Operations Committee Chair for 7 years, and the NCWSA Secretary for 8 years.