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POSTED: Saturday August 18th 2007
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Nine Athletes Win Titles On Final Day Of 65th GOODE Water Ski National Championships

More than 700 competitors participated in world?s largest three-event water ski tournament

ARVIN, Calif. ? Nine athletes won national titles Saturday as the 65th GOODE Water Ski National Championships, presented by Speedo, concluded at Ski West Village near Bakersfield. More than 700 competitors ? ages 5 through 94 ? from across the United States competed for national titles in slalom, tricks, jumping and overall in respective age divisions and two Open divisions during the six-day tournament.

National titles awarded on Saturday were: Men 5 tricks: Bill Blythe (Canyon Lake, Calif.), 4,090 points; Men 5 slalom: William Putnam (Lancaster, Mass.), 4 buoys at 38 feet off; Men 5 overall: Dean Chappell (Decatur, Ill.), 1,869.3 points; Women 5 tricks: Kay Nichols (Austin, Texas), 5,060 points; Women 5 overall: Leza Harrison (Chuluota, Fla.), 3,131.6 points; Women 3 tricks: Jane Gay (Winter Garden, Fla.), 5,630 points; Women 3 overall: Brenda Baldwin (Windermere, Fla.), 3,690.0 points; Men 3 slalom: Todd Kuykendall (Enid, Okla.), 3 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off; and Men 3 overall: Barry Young (Boise, Idaho), 2,613.0 points.

Among the highlights, Nichols set a pending Women 5 national tricks record with her winning score of 5,060 points; and Kuykendall emerged victorious from a runoff against Kreg Korinek (Chandler Heights, Ariz.) to win the Men 3 slalom title. Both skiers tied with a score of 3 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off, and in the subsequent runoff Kuykendall scored 2 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off to Korinek’s 4-1/2 buoys at 38 feet off.

 

Advancement to the Water Ski National Championships was earned through exceptional performances during the summer tournament season and by placement at regional championships held in the five USA Water Ski regions in late July and early August.

USA Water Ski was formed in 1939 as a non-profit organization promoting water skiing in the United States. USA Water Ski is affiliated with the International Water Ski Federation (world governing body) and is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and Pan-American Sports Organization as the national governing body of competitive water skiing in the United States. With more than 40,000 members, USA Water Ski is the largest water ski federation in the world.

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NOTE TO MEDIA: Complete results, press releases and other water-skiing information are available on our World Wide Web Page, www.USAWATERSKI.org.

 

 

For more information contact:                                                

Scott Atkinson                                                                          

Director of Communications

(407) 466-4588 (cell)                                                                                              

satkinson@usawaterski.org

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