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Team Members

Team members compete in tournaments on the weekends during the fall. 

Jamilee Lahey

Age: 22

Year: Senior

Major: Landscape Architecture

Events: Slalom, Jump, and Trick

Favorite Moment: Running the course for the first time and landing a jump 2 years ago at swerve water sports center!

What I love about the team: I love how welcoming and friendly everyone is! We all love to have fun and there is never a dull moment with anyone on the team!

Ali Alrashoudi

Age: 22

Year: Senior

Major: Electrical Engineering

Events: slalom, trick, jump

What do you love about the ski team: They are awesome people, and I love the water and water skiing.

Additional Information: Not from America.

Josie Cressy

Age: 20

Year: Junior

Major: Nursing

Events: slalom, jump

Favorite Moment: Going off the jump for the first time

What do you love most about the waterski team: The people of course!

Additional Information: From Mishawaka, IN.

Trevor Edris

Age: 20

Year: Senior

Major: Computer Science & Physics

Events: trick

What do you love most about the waterski team: I love having a close group of friends that I can have fun with throughout the year while improving my skiing. 

 

Nathan Gignac

Age: 21
Year, Senior
Major: Chemistry
Events: Slalom, Trick
Personal Best: I got one buoy one time!
Favorite Moment: Snow Ski trip to Michigan        
What do I love about the team: The people make the team feel like a family

Megan Lambert

Age: 22

Year: Senior

Major: Applied Exercise and Health

Events: Slalom, trick, jump 

Personal Bests: Slalom- 1/2 @ 35 off, trick- 680, jump- 48 ft

Favorite Moment: Nationals in Louisiana and jumping 19 feet at the Michigan tournament. 

What do you love about the ski team: I love skiing! Also, growing up I always skied with people who were older than me. Going to Purdue gave me the opportunity to ski with people my own age.

Additional Information: My hometown is Brownsburg, Indiana.

Anne Petros

Age: 19

Year: Junior

Major: Dietetics/Nutrition, Fitness, & Health

Events: slalom, trick, jump

Favorite Moment: !hen 4/4 girls landed jumps and 5/5 men ran at full pass at van wert last year.

What do you love about the ski team: I love that we can do absolutely nothing and still have a fantastic time together.

Rachel Pudlo

Age: 21

Year: Junior

Major: Movement and Sport Science

Events: Slalom, Trick, Jump
What do you love about the Waterski Team?: How much of a family the team is. Everyone is so close and we are always there for each other!
Favorite Moment: At one tournament last year when the theme was dress your own teammate, and everyone came up with the most ridiculous outfits for each other!

Andrew Schmitt

Nickname: Spongebob, Schmitty

Age: 21

Year: Senior

Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology

Events: slalom, trick, jump

Personal Bests: slalom- 4 @ 28 off, trick- 3300, jump- 142 ft

Favorite Moment: When I jumped 141 ft at collegiate nationals

What do you love about the ski team: Everyone is very welcoming and laid back. They are a great group of people.

Billy Muth

Age:

Year: Junior

Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Events: Slalom, Trick, Jump

Favorite Moment: Every ski tournament ever!

What I love about the team: I love the people! The people are super laid back and a lot of fun to be around.

Clay Kinnick

Age:

Year: Junior

Major: Hospitality Tourism Management

Events: Slalom, Trick

Personal Best: Trick 320, Slalom 5 @32mph

Favorite Moment: Basically every tourney except Harrison, Ohio...

What I love about the team: Being around the fam

Camille Clark

Age: 19

Year: Freshmen

Major: Pre-Pharm

Events: Slalom

Personal Best: 3.5 at 32mph

Favorite Moment: Waiting on the dock in the pouring down rain and yet everyone is still there cheering me on!

What I love about the team: We're one big happy family!

Jake Boender

Age: 21

Year: Junior

Major: Construction Management

Events: Slalom, Trick, Jump, Wakeboarding

Favorite Moment: Every time I get to jump. Absolutely love being on the water!

What I love about the team: The people and the atmosphere are amazing! Everyone seems to always have a good time.

Brad English

Age: 21

Year: Junior

Major: Aviation

Events: Jump

What I love about the team: I love tournament season!

Tommy Lokkesmoe

Age: 20

Year: Sophomore

Major: Aerospace Engineering

Events: Slalom

What I love about the team: Every weekend we get to go camping on the lake, hang out and watch people ski!

Joey Savastano

Age: 19

Year: Sophomore

Major: Computer Science

Events: Slalom, Jump

Favorite Moment: Crashing onto shore because I couldn't turn on jump skis.

What I love about the team: How much fun everyone on the team is!

Cole Griffin

Age: 20

Year: Junior

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Events: Trick

Personal Best: Wakesurfing surface 360

What I love about the team: I <3 Josh Brown

Zach English

Age: 18

Year: Freshmen

Major: Agricultural Systems Management

What I love about the team: The people around me

Mitchell Lee

Age: 19

Year: Sophomore

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Events: Slalom, Trick, Jump

Personal Best: 3 buoys at 30 mph

Favorite Moment: I was the first to slalom in the morning of conference and managed to run 3 full passes going on to make 2 1/2 buys at 30 mph. Half the team did not even know I could run a full pass yet and everyone was extremely excited
What I love about the team: How friendly the team is, from teaching the rules of the sport to spending many weekends with the group.

Kate Bugelholl

Age: 21

Year: Senior

Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering 

Events: Slalom

Favorite Moment: The ski tournaments!
What I love about the team: The people

Jonathan Moss

Age: 18

Year: Freshmen

Major: Materials Engineering

Events: Trick, Jump

Personal Best: Jump: 59ft

What I love about the team: It's fun! Ski team is the most fun part of college, hands down, both at the tournaments and at Purdue.

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