Welcome the official website for organized 3 event skiing in the State of Georgia!
The Georgia Water Ski Federation has been promoting skiing in Georgia since 1976. This site is dedicated to the mission of the GWSF by promoting, recording and advancing the sport enjoyed by thousands. The goal is to grow our sport throughout Georgia. We will bring news of the sport from around the state, archive the history, memories, records and events that have formed a legacy of both National and International success. No matter what your skill level or favorite discipline, we welcome you to enjoy the site and join our family of members.
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2023 News & Announcements
The Georgia Water Ski State Championship Tournament has a venue change!
Whitestone Lakes Estates to host July 8/9, 2023.
Goto USAWS or use the link below to see the sanction and sign up today.
https://usawaterski.org/rankings/view-tournaments_usa.asp?pvar=TourInfo&TourID=23S093&olrds=enabled&rg=1&sl=on&tr=on&ju=on&wb=&ws=&wu=&bf=&kb=&hy=&sExclude=
The tournament will include our friends from Tennessee. This is a 2 state, 2 round tournament.
USAWS Water Safety Clinic - 2 new Safety Coordinators trained!
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The GWSF continues its support training its members to serve the water ski community.
The Atlanta Water Ski Club hosted the safety clinic with James Cawthern instructing. This class was split using online and in person training for 9 people. Five participants from Georgia, Three are continuing education. The two new coordinators are Kelly Poche and Sara Rossi from the AWSC.. Using their safety talents for wednesday slalom league, they both plan to safety at area tournaments this summer!
The Atlanta Water Ski Club hosted the safety clinic with James Cawthern instructing. This class was split using online and in person training for 9 people. Five participants from Georgia, Three are continuing education. The two new coordinators are Kelly Poche and Sara Rossi from the AWSC.. Using their safety talents for wednesday slalom league, they both plan to safety at area tournaments this summer!
The 2023 Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament
May 26-28th at Calloway Gardens - Pine Mountain, Ga.
https://www.masterswaterski.com/
USA Water Ski & Wake Sports 100th Anniversary Award's Gala.
Georgia's favorite Tech Controller was honored for service to the sport as AWSA's Volunteer of the Year! Congratulations Jerry Jackson!
Georgia's favorite Tech Controller was honored for service to the sport as AWSA's Volunteer of the Year! Congratulations Jerry Jackson!
Past 2021 News and Announcements
The 2021 Georgia Water Ski Championship was conducted in tandem with the Tennessee State Water Ski Championship at Lake Pryor, McDonald, Tennessee on July 9th - 11th, 2021. I believe the smiles on the Junior Skier's faces tells the story!
3 of 'Georgia's Youngsters' skied at the Jr. US Open in Martindale, Tx.
Chase Sparks competed in Jump and flew 130ft and placed 4th.
Greg Terry competed in slalom and skied a respectable 2 @ 35 and tied for 5th.
Liz Hall (not photographed) skied all 3 events and placed 2nd overall. USA skiers took first in team competition.
Whitestone Lakes Estates - Top prize winners from the Ball Of Spray competition include James Bryans & Carly Horton!
Skiing Consistently into 39 off bests
John Horton for the top prize!
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Carly Horton - 2@25mph-15off - 6/13/21.
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Whitestone Summer Starter - BOS Cash Prize Tournament saw several personal best performances from Georgia's Jr. Skiers!
Chase Sparks - 141' jump 6/12/21
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Collin Price - 100 Foot Club! 6/12/21
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Blake Cawthern - 1 @ 23mph 15off 6/13/21
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Nate Crenshaw - 4@30mph LL - 6/13/21
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From Acworth Georgia - James Bryans!
Competes at the 2021 Jr. Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard Tournament following 2 excellent personal best Performances to compete in Slalam AND Jump Skiing!
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James has 2 pending Georgia State records for Boy's 5.
Slalom: 3 at 39 off Jump: 176 feet Dad says look out, he is not done yet! James has been working at Travers Ski School and will be attending University of Louisiana Lafayette in the fall. Congratulations James! |
On the start dock at Masters
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Stories around the State - Historical News
USA Waterski Nationals completed October 16, 2016 and two of Georgia's own skied to new bests, and then some!!
David Carter (of Dallas, Ga.) and Janet Paulsen (of Acworth, Ga.) let by team leader Bill Furbish had a very successful week on the waters of Skyview Lake in Harmony, North Carolina.
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David and Janet are both members of the Atlanta Water Ski Club in Acworth. They have been training at least 3 times per week with Bill and other skiers this summer in hopes of a great showing at Nationals. David exceeded his expectations and skied new bests in both Slalom and Tricks. To top all of that, David was selected the USA World's Ski Team that will compete in Sydney, Australia in 2017! Congratulations! Sounds like David will be skiing this winter to prep.
This is Janet's first tournament. She began skiing this year at a Shepherd Clinic held at Lake Allatoona where she met Bill and others. New goals were set and off she went. After learning to ski this year, she went on to earn a Bronze medal in slalom and a Silver in Tricks! (At Nationals!!) She now has her goals set to make the USA Ski Team for 2019. Apparently her piers believe she will do it, at the awards and dinner banquet, Janet was awarded the honor as the Most Promising Newcomer!
This is Janet's first tournament. She began skiing this year at a Shepherd Clinic held at Lake Allatoona where she met Bill and others. New goals were set and off she went. After learning to ski this year, she went on to earn a Bronze medal in slalom and a Silver in Tricks! (At Nationals!!) She now has her goals set to make the USA Ski Team for 2019. Apparently her piers believe she will do it, at the awards and dinner banquet, Janet was awarded the honor as the Most Promising Newcomer!
2016
The Georgia State Ski Team placed 3rd the Southern Region Tournament. Thank you Team Captain Matt Page for taking the lead!
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Congratulations to the American Team that competed at the 2016 Can-Am Games! Georgia's own Hayleigh Blair and Amanda Bryans for the Under 17 team and James Bryans for the under 14 team skied very well! I believe they are also selected to the Pan-Am Team Competition this winter! Good Luck Competitors!
Your 2016 Georgia Water Ski Hall of Fame Recipients! Congratulations Gentlemen!
HOF 2016 Carey Zimlich
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HOF Chairman Joel Norton introducing Lane Culpepper's HOF Skier Award 2016
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The Bradshaw's are very busy people! Before moving out of state this summer, the had to stop by the banquet to pick up some hardware for the new house walls. We will miss you both, come back and ski us soon, will ya!?
Bon Voyage to Craig and Shawna Bradshaw! Taking with them the LSD Award and most improved skier!
Special Awards presented to some very deserving people!
Thank you Billy and Kim, Bob and Judy of Divorce Lake Ski Club for all your hard work to provide Georgia Skiers a ski site in 'back to back' years for 2015 and 2016! The Border Wars against Alabama for '16 was very cool, and I do love the shirt!
Organizers: Billy & Kim Pilcher + Bob & Judy Wilkinson
2015 Georgia State Water Ski Championships - These young skiers are champions today!
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You may remember Linda Giddens delicious watermelon a couple years back. Judy Wilkinson has taken the watermelon gig to a new level at the banquet! You may also remember Jim Barron usually provides us with a spectacular photo each year. Once again, he did not disappoint! The watermelon eating contest did not fall short on the entertainment schedule. I do question the whole 'door prize' theme (Judy) when handing in the banquet ticket!?
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4 contestants compete... and I'm not sure how they survived!
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Jim's earth stripping technique nearly won gold! But Ashley beat him by a seed!
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Ski year 2014 News and Highlights
One exciting highlight from the tournament can be found on CNN.com. They share fantastic moments captured by the camera lense and post them in an artful gallery. Georgia's own Ally Brock (age 16) made that slideshow while competing on her slalom ski during Regionals. She skied very well with 1.5 buoys at 28' off the tow line.
In case you don't believe me, here is the proof! Way to go Ally, and awesome ski form!
CNN website link for this photo:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/29/worldsport/gallery/what-a-shot-0729/index.html?hpt=hp_mid
In case you don't believe me, here is the proof! Way to go Ally, and awesome ski form!
CNN website link for this photo:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/29/worldsport/gallery/what-a-shot-0729/index.html?hpt=hp_mid
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If your not having fun skiing this year, you should be!
Check out the peeps at whitestone having sume fun with their Summer Series Slalom Tournament! Credit Paul O'Hara for the Video June 24, 2014 |
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June 4th, 2014 - The crew at Legends Ski Club in Dallas, Ga. had ski royalty there for the day!
Wade Cox came out to help skiers of all caliber better themselves on the slalom ski. It was a great day mid 80's and light winds. Legends always skies well, and thanks to Wade, so did all of us!
Would like to thank John Watkins for having us out and Ken Karner for securing Wade and the clinic roster. James Cawthern brought the boat and drove. Also a thank you to the GWSF for offering a skier subsidy to support skiers clinics like this as well as official's education! Wade teaches all level of skier at his residence in NW Orlando and a site of your choice. He has a fabulous way of teaching the 'current style' of skiing on the latest ski equipment. find Wade at [email protected].
Wade Cox came out to help skiers of all caliber better themselves on the slalom ski. It was a great day mid 80's and light winds. Legends always skies well, and thanks to Wade, so did all of us!
Would like to thank John Watkins for having us out and Ken Karner for securing Wade and the clinic roster. James Cawthern brought the boat and drove. Also a thank you to the GWSF for offering a skier subsidy to support skiers clinics like this as well as official's education! Wade teaches all level of skier at his residence in NW Orlando and a site of your choice. He has a fabulous way of teaching the 'current style' of skiing on the latest ski equipment. find Wade at [email protected].
2013 News and Announcements
Visit Legends on Facebook for photo's. be sure to friend them so you can see future updates. Skier-
Amanda Bryans.
Legends Ski CLub in Dallas, Ga. held their first slalom ski tournament. If you did not ski it, you missed out!
John Watkins of Legends really put on a class act. Not only was the skiing great with many skiers earning a new tournament best, but it was backed up with awesome weather, good food, music, laid back atmosphere, trophies and a club shirt for eveyone in attendance.
Thank you John for opening your site to AWSA skiers. We look forward to skiiing there again soon!
John plans on having a tournament each year and going bigger and better, if that is possible!
John Watkins of Legends really put on a class act. Not only was the skiing great with many skiers earning a new tournament best, but it was backed up with awesome weather, good food, music, laid back atmosphere, trophies and a club shirt for eveyone in attendance.
Thank you John for opening your site to AWSA skiers. We look forward to skiiing there again soon!
John plans on having a tournament each year and going bigger and better, if that is possible!
Thank you Lymanland for the amazing job you did to have such a big tournament in 5 days on one lake!
Awards and fundraising for Jr. Development at the banquet for the SRC. |
A few photo's of the Southern Regionals Championships at Lymanland! |
 Adam Webb - Atl. Pro-Am 1st Place
Adam Webb has had quite a 2013 season! He has been breaking into 38 off with consistency this year. But that was not enough. Like all of us, he was searching for more. He made a move the latest D3. It seems to have paid off!
Now a Mens 2 slalom specialist. He won the Ameteur portion of Water Ski Atlanta's Pro-Am this year. He Won State. Took second place at Regionals. As for Nationals, he placed 4th to stand on that prestigious podium! Way to represent Georgia! |
 Shannon Nolan & Elaine Guarino
You just may be skiing with royalty! Check out the Queens of Scoring at a tournament near you!
Elaine also delivered a heartfelt presentation of the Family Award to the Nolan's. As you may guess, these girls are great friends, brought together through service of our sport! Thank you for your hard work ladies! |
Just a few highlights from the 2013 State Championship Ski Event and Banquet!
The Nolan's were honored with this years Family Award! Well deserved!
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James Bryan's took home the most improved Jr. Skier award.
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GWSF Hall of Fame Mements for 2013!Marty Flournoy is this years competitor inductee! Marty had plenty of awesome stories to share. Congratulations Sir!
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The GWSF Hall of Fame Committee secretly conveened and decided that one of their peers, Dan Pritchard has certainly earned the respect of the water ski community for years of service to the sport. Needless to say, Dan had no idea this was planned, but was presented with an Award Of Distinction for Years of Service above and beyond! Thank you Dan!
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Heres an update on Georgia's youngest up and coming skiers!
Nate Crenshaw
Division - Baby 1, has been hard at work on things like naps, eight square meals and training his parents. Among many other talents Nate has, vocabulary is now on the list. Ray reports he just said his first words: 'HIT IT!' |
They do grow up fast...
Blake William Cawthern Born May 29, 2012 Blake William Cawthern Born May 29, 2012 |
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This all USA crew can take down the kids of Sans Rival!
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Georgia Water Ski Hall of Fame AwardsIn years past and present, the GWS Hall of Fame inductees are shown below.
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Highlights from previous ski competions and happenings from around the region. Check it out!
July 2013 - The webmaster's 'favorite moment captured' picture goes to Jim Barron. Now I am not picking on Jim, but he always provides quality entertainment! A dock starters job is not easy, so dont take them for granted people! photo found on KnowPickens.com
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May 2013 - Althought the story has not changed for some time now. It is worthy of a highlight. In case you don't now who this is... Regina took another title at the 2013 Atlanta Pro- Am.
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Jim Barron represents in typical fashion! 7/9/2011
Jim Barron has been around the ski circuit once or twice! You can count on his colorful personality to shine through and through! As you might image, he has not disapointed us in that catagory.
Jim had a simple plan. To trick well, to land a safe jump then go for the gusto & slalom as many buoys as possible. While slalom proved to be tricky for many adults, he certainly excelled this weekend at the greatest venue in watersports! |
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