The USA Water Ski & Wake Sports Foundation Scholarships are awarded each year to water skiers who show leadership abilities and demonstrate that involvement in the sport has helped them grow both personally and academically. And this year is bigger and better than ever! We had so many incredible applicants this year that we are making an additional $22,000 from the NEW General Endowed Scholarship Fund available to the top students who did not receive one of our other schola

Jessica Withrow is Awarded the 2026 Linda Giddens Girls 5 Scholarship

BG Bickley is Awarded the 2026 Dr. J.D. Morgan Boys 5 Scholarship

Alexia Abelson is Awarded the 2026 Linda Giddens Girls 4 Scholarship

Jake Nelson is Awarded the Dr. Mike Morgan Boys 4 Scholarship

Kate Nelson is Awarded Gus Johnson Girls 3 Scholarship

Jaxen Stabel is Awarded the 2026 Lake City, Minnesota/Ralph Samuelson Commemorative Boys 3 Scholarship

Brooke Burdick is Awarded Brenda May Worden Girls 2 Scholarship

Ridge Krueger is Awarded the 2026 Huston Automotive Group Boys 2 Scholarship

Paxton McCollough is Awarded the 2026 Jim Grew Girls 1 Scholarship

Asher Boyd is Awarded the 2026 Jim Grew Boys 1 Scholarship

Grace Lohr is Awarded the 2026 Stan & Donna Switzer - Florida Water Ski Federation Scholarship

Lauren Connelly is Awarded the 2026 Barbara Bolding/Jim Grew Scholarship

Daniel Standage is Awarded the 2026 Ed Hickey Scholarship

Parker Carroll is Awarded the 2026 Richard Avila Scholarship

Nora Bally is Awarded the 2026 "Banana George" Blair Ambassador Scholarship

Madison Martin is Awarded the 2026 John Van Gieson Scholarship

MacKenzie Mainer is Awarded the 2026 Lucille Avila Ortiz Scholarship Lucille Avila Ortiz Scholarship. John Van Gieson Scholarship.

Emma Davis is Awarded the 2026 Steve and Ann Lohr Scholarship

RJ Teter is Awarded the 2026 John Worden Scholarship