After a brilliant event in 2017 the Mapple ProAm is back on the Thorpe Lakes Arena on 12th – 14th July. (Not the dates in the photo of Andy which is from the 2017 event) An event not to be missed that culminates in a Pro’s Head to Head final on the Sunday afternoon. With four skier teams plus a pro with the added excitement of a handicap system to level the playing field it is Slalom at its very best. To find out more click on the link below.
Mapple ProAm 2019

The Officials for the National Championships at Hazelwoods Ski World organised by PWTC were announced at the Officials Seminar in Lincoln last Saturday. They are:

Chief Judge Gavin Kelly
ACJ and Judge Catherine Wharton
Judge Jill Howard
Judge Clair Hoile
Judge Ben Hazelwood
Judge Stuart Hills
Judge Rob Spavin
Scorer Sanchia Outram
Scorer Charlotte Wharton
Homologator Peter Davies
Driver Ady Asher
Driver Tony Cise
Driver Nathan McGarry
Technical Officer George Hazelwood

Back Up Officials
Driver Paul Wharton
Judge Harry Spavin
Judge Rob Hazelwood
Judge Tom Poole
Judge Jack Critchley

Congratulations on your selection and have a great competition.

The April draw of the 200 Club Lottery took place yesterday at the Annual British Officials Seminar. Mark Beard invited Irene Newbold to pick the winning balls from the blue bag. With three new tickets there were 110 balls in the bag this month…. a new high. Unfortunately technology, or the camera operator, let us down and only 21 seconds of the action were captured. The results were : 1st Roy Collins no 44 winning £412.50. 2nd Stuart Lillis no 45 winning £275.00. 3rd Jeremy Stephenson no 78 winning £137.50. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all of you that take part. So far FoT has raised more than £60,000 and this year will spend £35,000 on supporting team travel to World and European Championships as well as Squad Training and Development Days. FoT will also be supporting the Handicap League again this year with end of season prizes.

Continuing our series of profiles of our Officials and Volunteers we have Catherine Wharton. Catherine devotes a great deal of her spare time to our sport both as an International Senior Judge (J2) and International Scorer (S1). She has also contributed hugely to the work of the Tournament Technical Working Group (TouTech) for a number of years.

GB Tournament Water Skiing is delighted to announce the 2019 GB Squad. The Tournament Committee, based on performances from the 2018 Tournament Season, has selected top water ski athletes from across the United Kingdom.

2019 GB SQUAD

U14: Thomas PARKIN, Noah POLLARD, Harrison CROSSLAND, Lilli DESTE, Danielle HALFORD and Stella GAMSKI.

U17: Marcus ROBINSON, Saba YORKE-DAVIES, Danny JAYS, Matilda TURP, Emma SCUTT, Lucy ROBERTS, Amy WHALING and Molly LEE.

U21: Sanchia OUTRAM, Joel POLAND, Robert HAZELWOOD, Arron DAVIES, Benjamin TURP, Charlie EMMETT, Katie NUTT and Oliver SCUTT.

OPEN: William ASHER, Frederick WINTER, Eleanor BENJAMIN, Charlotte WHARTON, Luke OUTRAM, Jack CRITCHLEY, Calum HEATH, Thomas POOLE and Harry SPAVIN.

?? U14 & U17 SQUAD DEVELOPMENT DAYS ??
23rd & 24th July at Southlake Ski School
Coaching by Damien Ackerer of DAMS Watersports Ltd. 100% of funding provided by Friends of Tournament – Thank you 200 Club members ??

The first Bulletin for this years National Championships is now available on our Resources page and can be accessed on the link below.

Nationals 2019 Bulletin 1

The first Bulletin containing all you need to know about the Combined National Championships will be published in the next few days but in the meanwhile please note an important schedule announcement that affects the U17 and U14 Competitors. The E&A Youth Championships are now scheduled to run from the Tuesday to Saturday in the following week with Official Familiarisation taking place on the Sunday and Monday. Consequently our squad will need to travel on the Saturday. So the U17 and U14 Preliminary Rounds will now take place on the afternoon of Thursday 22nd August.

A reminder that the British Officials Seminar will take place on Saturday 4th May at the Bentley Hotel near Hazelwoods Ski World in Lincolnshire. We will have hard copies of the IWWF World Rules, the E&A Additional Rules and the British Additional Rules combined into an A5 sized Rulebook free of charge to all who attend. The seminar is free of charge and is open to all Officials, all those wishing to become an Official, site competition organisers and anybody else who has an interest in getting involved. Details in the link below.

Officials Seminar 2019

2019 Rulebooks Front Page

We rely on a small army of volunteers who organise and manage Tournament Waterskiing in the UK. These range from those who serve on our Committees, the Tournament Committee, Toutech, and Selection, our Officials, Judges, Drivers, Scorers, Homologators, and Technical Officers, and other volunteers who help out at competitions and other activities. So we are going to present a profile of some of these people over the coming months starting with one of our most experienced Judges, Jill Howard. There is a new page called our Officials & Volunteers which will hold a collection of these profiles as they are published.