If you’ve ever walked through the front door of East Coast Compounding Pharmacy in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, you’ve likely had the pleasure of interacting with their amazing staff. Amongst the staff, one might run into the owner and head pharmacist, Regina Jaquess. Upon meeting Regina, it doesn’t take too long to recognize that she’s not so average… intelligent, caring, quick-witted, and passionate about her career and her patients. Additionally, she’s casually a professional athlete who is consistently at the top of her sport, no big deal.
Regina earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy from University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) in 2009, and has been practicing in Florida ever since. While school culminated in a Doctorate of Pharmacy she started off at the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2002 after earning a full athletic scholarship to water ski at ULM. During her first four years of school, Regina competed on ULM’s 3-event water ski team and set the collegiate world on fire from 2002 through 2005. During her collegiate skiing career, she was the ULM captain from 2002 through 2005 and she helped carry the team to two NCWSA National Championship tournament victories in 2002 and 2004 while claiming many event and overall titles across her collegiate career. Aside from her team titles, Regina somehow managed to take it about 30 steps further.
The Extra Mile or Thirty
Regina was chosen as an All-American skier four years in a row in all three events. She competed in the World University Championships, where she was the slalom, trick, jump, and overall champion (yes that is a clean sweep). During her collegiate career she held the slalom, trick, and jump records for both NCWSA and FISU World University, and to this day she is the only athlete to ever hold NCWSA slalom, trick, and jump records simultaneously. In her final year of eligibility, 2005, she won the award for NCWSA Female Athlete of the Year. As a final feather in the cap of her collegiate skiing career, she graces our NCWSA logo with her jump silhouette.
Beyond the Water
Regina’s excellence extended beyond the water as well. After finishing her eligibility at University of Louisiana Monroe, Regina was the ULM advisor and coach for two years. During that tenure ULM won two more national championships. Regina helped officiate many NCWSA events as a highly rated judge in all three events. To top it off she sat on the NCWSA Board for the South Central Region from 2003 through 2005.
Proven and Sustained Success
Regina has proven through her successful skiing and pharmaceutical careers that she is no ordinary individual (let alone skier). She is consistently in the top of her class at everything she does, and dedicates herself to her personal and professional development. How does she find time to do all of this, you ask? Good question – we don’t know either. Regina continues to spend her time promoting the sport and ensuring that it lives on for generations to come. At tournaments, you can find her either prepping herself to ski, cheering on one of the thousands of aspiring skiers that she has coached, or in the boat/a tower, judging.
A Role Model We Strive To Be
Regina perfectly exemplifies everything that we aspire for collegiate skiers to be – their time spent as an NCWSA athlete fosters personal and professional growth, which creates a passionate individual who is dedicated to their career, their sport, and themselves. Regina, your professionalism and passion, both on the water and off, is an inspiration to thousands of fans across the globe – thank you for doing what you do and striving to be the best that you can be every single day. The example you’ve set is just one of the many reasons you were selected for this honor, and no one is more deserving than you.
Regina, congratulations on being inducted to the NCWSA Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2019!
- NCWSA Hall of Fame – Class of 2019: Regina Jaquess - October 9, 2019
- NCWSA Hall of Fame: Class of 2018 – Dave Clark - October 10, 2018
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