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.