Colton King Inaugural Award 2017

The Colton King Award and the Inaugural Winner

The Colton King Award was established this year, and created to honor the memory of Colton King, a University of Wisconsin – La Crosse water skier and team captain, who passed away in a tragic bicycle accident. As a hard working student and competitive water skier, Colton coached his team on the water and tutored […]

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Auburn Water Ski - 2017 The Big Event Community Service Project

Auburn Water Ski Takes Part in Community Service Event

Every week we will release a digest of team news, announcements, or updates that have been sent our way to help spread the great updates about all of our teams across the nation! Hopefully, as this feature catches on we will get more submissions, but Auburn is flying solo in our inaugural week, so they get […]

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USA Water Ski Foundation

2017 Michael Gerken Equipment Grant Winners

The Michael Gerken Equipment Grant was established in honor of Michael Gerken, a member of the Iowa State University water ski team. Its goal is to provide young student athletes of limited financial means the opportunity to purchase water ski equipment to continue to compete in water skiing in addition to their college studies.  More information […]

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1979 NCWSA National Champions - San Diego State University

TBT: 1st NCWSA Nationals in 1979

We got into our time machine and found an article on the very first NCWSA Nationals (1979). The following article was originally written and published in the 1980 December/January issue of The Water Skier! The Water Skier is the official magazine of USA Water Ski. The original article was imported word for word to be republished […]

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Dolphin Wetsuits Will Sponsor 2017 NCWSA Team Bib Bracket Contest

We announced our 2017 Bib Bracket Contest at the end of January. Several teams responded by sending us their bibs, but we still have many more bib pictures to collect! Email your bib photos! If you have a high quality photo of your ski team’s bib (either on the water or off), please email it […]

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