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  • 2026 NCWSA Awards – Call for Nominations!

    2026 NCWSA Awards – Call for Nominations!

    The NCWSA has six annual awards - volunteer of the year, team of the year, male & female outstanding leader of the year, and male & female athlete of the year.
  • 2026 Seeding Show & Boat Draw

    2026 Seeding Show & Boat Draw

    Congrats to the teams that are officially heading to Bell Acqua Lakes in California. Tune in tonight (October 6th) for the Seeding Show & Boat Show, where we’ll reveal the regional qualifiers! We’ll run a simulated tournament to decide the remaining qualifiers. Then teams will be seeded into D1 and D2 based on their scores. […]
  • What Is Collegiate 3-Event Water Skiing?

    What Is Collegiate 3-Event Water Skiing?

    Team Across the United States are over 50 collegiate water ski teams. At each collegiate tournament, teams can enter up to 5 men and 5 women in each of the three events. Skiers earn team points based on how many competitors they beat. At most tournaments, teams may also field a B-team that competes the […]
  • Will Asher: From Collegiate Champion to World Champion

    Will Asher: From Collegiate Champion to World Champion

    Will Asher has earned his place in the NCWSA Hall of Fame through an exceptional career defined by dedication to water skiing and commitment to his team. When Will Asher was recruited to the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2002, he entered the collegiate ranks as a much-heralded phenom, a junior champion on the world stage. Will […]
  • Mike Adams: The Man Behind the 1st Collegiate Nationals

    Mike Adams: The Man Behind the 1st Collegiate Nationals

    Mike Adams, now a member of the NCWSA Hall of Fame, played a foundational role in the history of collegiate water skiing. In the summer of 1977 Mike Adams and his best friend, Hank Kizer, founded the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) Water Ski Team, then known as Northeast Louisiana University (NLU). Throughout his collegiate […]
2016 Wild Card Winners

2016 Wild Card Show Results

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Adam Koehler

The top three teams in the wildcard tournament receive bids to the 2016 NCWSA National Championships!  We had a live stream of the results and had some big plans with a video board, a presentation, and lots of graphics! Well we couldn’t get that stream to work, so we went with the quick and easy […]

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2016 MCWSA Regionals Awards

Ohio State University Wins 2016 Midwest Regionals

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Margaret Silhasek

We’ve reached that time of the year here in the Midwest; many skiers are packing away their tents, placing their skis nicely in their bags for the winter, and looking back at pictures from the season with the feeling that nothing is right in the world. However, for six teams here in the Midwest Region,that feeling won’t […]

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2016 South Central Regionals

ULM Wins at 2016 South Central Regionals

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Adam Koehler

What a weekend in Katy, Texas at the Lakes of Katy!  For awhile this weekend the rest of the nation was in the dark as the South Central teams that frequently post to social media all went silent, but all is okay in the South as all available members were simply busy skiing their hearts out for their respective […]

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Waterski Magazine: The Struggles of a New Collegiate Waterski Team

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 Adam Koehler

University of California, Los Angeles alumnus Kirk Lee wrote an online article for Waterski magazine highlighting some of the common struggles for a new collegiate team. Check out the full article on their website. Kirk is the current vice chairperson of the Western Region and attends collegiate events as a board member, alumnus, safety, and official. […]

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An Alumni Perspective: Kathleen Nolan

September 30, 2016January 23, 2019 Kathleen Nolan

My collegiate experience would have been completely different had I not crossed paths with the Illini Waterski Team on Quad Day in August of 2008.  I’d grown up a recreational skier, but I never imagined that it was something I could continue in college – certainly not in the cornfields of Champaign, Illinois.  Little did […]

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