Saskatoon Water Ski Club sends 3 junior athletes to World U17 Championships

When it comes to his clip connected nan water, water-skier Samson Clunie knows 1 aliases 2 centimetres tin make each nan difference.

That precision has led nan 16-year-old to wearing nan maple leafage astatine nan upcoming World U17 Water Ski Championships adjacent Calgary alongside 2 teammates Max Strilchuk and Enzo Kristian.

“It’s really bully that each 3 of america are going and getting to correspond Saskatchewan,” said Clunie. “I deliberation Saskatchewan has nan astir athletes going to nan World Juniors this year, truthful it says a lot.”

“It will beryllium really cool, hopefully we’ll spell to a mates much events and expanse nan podium a fewer much times.”

It’s nan first clip successful nan province’s history that 3 water-skiers will compete astatine nan World U17 level, a way which started for nan trio astatine nan section Saskatoon Water Ski Club.

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Guiding them on nan measurement has been Carter Lucas, a erstwhile World Junior competitor himself, now a rising prima connected Canada’s elite men’s team.

Along pinch chap nationalist teammate Thomas Daigle, Lucas has been taking clip retired of his training to instruct nan teens.

“It’s conscionable awesome to spot 3 young guys competing connected nan world level and nan athletics and nine increasing from Saskatchewan,” said Lucas. “It was not a normal point successful nan past, now it’s becoming very prevalent. Our nine and our group are really becoming known passim Canada and internationally too.”

The trio already swept a podium astatine nan Junior Canadian Open this summertime and pinch a beardown week successful Calgary are eager to bring moreover much hardware backmost home.

The 2024 World U17 Water Ski Championships runs Aug. 1-4 astatine Predator Bay Water Ski Club successful Foothills County, Alta., southbound of Calgary.