Friends of MDWSA – New Years Day polar ski

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Thank you to all who came out on News Year’s Day and water skied and supported the “Friends of MDWSA”. This was our 36th annual event and we do it all to raise money for the Missouri Disabled Water Ski Association. THANK YOU!!. Eight people took to the water to ski: Alex Rosenbloom, Brian Engelhard, Dan Rosenbloom, Danny Liliensick, David Diederich, Kathleen Kras, Monty Webster and Neil Rosenbloom. $1,725 was raised this day! This will allow the club to purchase, much needed, adaptive water skis. Thank you to Channel 2 (Fox News) who came out to watch and broadcast the event in order to help raise awareness of MDWSA.

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teenaged female sit skier smiling as she is holding on to the ski rope while she skis around the lake

Learn to ski – Aug 6th and 7th, 2020

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CANCELLED

Due to the areas of Wentzville and O’Fallon becoming COVID Hot Spots now, MDWSA has made the decision to cancel the August 6 – 7, and September 13 Adaptive Ski Clinics at Lake St. Louis, MO. We appreciate your willingness to help make these events possible, but unfortunately current circumstances are beyond our control. When we made the decision to proceed 6 weeks ago, we were hopeful the COVID situation would stabilize or improve. But that is not the case.

Please know that we care about you and value your continue support! As the cases for COVID increase in St. Charles County, and the cases in Wentzville and O’Fallon are currently very high (the two cities surrounding Lake St. Louis), we made this difficult decision in the best interest of your health. We hope that next summer we are past these immoderate circumstances and will see you back next year – for a healthy 2021!

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused as many of you took off work or school. We know you look forward to these adaptive ski events as do we.

On a positive note, we were able to test our new sign up software via our website that will help our efficiency and growth in the future. We are satisfied with the results to date as it is good event organization and quick contact and communication.

We hope you remain hopeful during these challenging times! We look forward to a healthy and successful 2021 season with plenty of skiing!

We will be back in 2021 stronger than ever

Beach Trax Access Mats

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Thank you DONORS! With the funds you donated, in 2020 MDWSA was able to purchase Beach Trax Access Mats.  These durable, lightweight, fold-able and easily transportable wheelchair mats will allow for easier access across the sand and into the water.  In the past, we have used plywood sheets which are heavy, result in a large gap between the sections and have to be dried out completely before we can store them .  We would like to extend a huge THANK YOU! to Access Trax for including a story about MDWSA on their web site; we are very much looking forward to using your product at our events.  Check out the article about us here and, for more information about Access Trax, click here.   

adult male volunteer smiling

Congrats to VITO!

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Vito Lucido was recognized at the 2018 National Disabled Water Ski Championships with the Phil Martin Award by the Southern Region of USA Adaptive Water & Wake Sports, a division of USA Water Ski & Wake Sports.  The Nationals are held biennially and awards are given for the previous two years.

The Phil Martin Award is presented in recognition and appreciation of outstanding contributions and dedication to the advancement of adaptive water skiing.  Congratulations to Vito who was the 2017-2018 recipient!

 

I know I am GRATEFUL to know and work with Vito and this award is WELL DESERVED.  Vito was recognized for all of his hard work and dedication to the sport of adapted water skiing.  I think the perseverance of years and years of effort and great events that expose people with disabilities in Missouri is worthy of recognition.  Thank you so much Vito and all for all your years of contributions and the many people you have affected positively!

– Heather Pennington

Congratulations Vito!  This is worth celebrating!

2 female tube riders with 2 volunteers behind them tubing around the lake

2018 Water skiing clinics

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MDWSA in collaboration with Lift Disability Network Missouri held three water ski clinics in Lake St. Louis, Mo. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and participated!

O’Fallon TV came out to one of the events and created a fantastic four minute video about the event. Thanks to O’Fallon TV for this publicity. Check out the video.