Spring break with ski team was always the best week of my year. The Illini Water Ski Team would pack up the cars on Friday night sometime between 4pm and 8pm (depending on who was playing a game of Jenga that they just couldn’t get out of), and drive through the night to Santa Rosa […]
Author: Kathleen Nolan
I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. From the fall of 2016 through spring 2018 I was the primary alumni correspondent for NCWSA.com. I currently work in Chicago, IL.
Alumni Spotlight: Cole Kalkbrenner
Cole Kalkbrenner transitioned from wakeboarding to 3-event skiing at Missouri State University, and he never looked back. Growing up wakeboarding, the transition to 3-event skiing was a natural one. Cole and several of his friends had the resources to start a 3-event team at Missouri State, so they did just that in 2003. While jump and […]
Auburn Volunteers at Storybrook Farm
Every week we release a digest of team news, announcements, or updates that have been sent our way to help spread amazing news of our teams from across the nation! Did you and your team miss out this week? Check the submission guide and submit your news for next week! Auburn Volunteers at Storybrook Farm On January 20th, the Auburn Water […]
2017 Award Winner: Outstanding Leader – Alex Clark
A Collegiate Career Culminates in Leadership Award Alex Clark showed up to ski team his freshman year at Michigan State University having never seen a slalom course, and he is ending his career an outstanding leader in the sport. According to his co-captain and teammate, Sara Condra, there is “absolutely no one more deserving of […]
Ski Team Besties for Life
Do you remember being a freshman in college? You are on a new campus, living on your own for the first time, and maybe away from your friends. Perhaps you were like me, and wandered around the quad on Activities Day looking to join a club. As I was walking around, I found a group of people […]
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