GROVELAND, Fla. (September 17, 2022) - The Rollins waterski team competed in their first official event of 2022 on Saturday, facing off against host Florida Southern as well as the University of Alabama at Sunset Lakes. While Southern took the team win for the day, it was sophomore
Pato Font who captured the headlines.
Only a week after
setting a pending world record for a tricks run at the John Meyer Memorial in Palm Bay, Font was at it again in this one. In his tricks run, he carded a total of 7,220 points, which is the highest point total by an individual at a collegiate waterski event. A review panel will check his score before making it official, but for all intents and purposes, Font is now a record-holder at the college level.
Full Event Results
In addition to running tricks, Font also placed second individually in the slalom with a score of 106 after skiing four buoys at 38 off rope.
Jerome Verbaet also competed for the Tars in slalom, going for three buoys at 35 off for a score of 99, good for sixth place. Verbaet also jumped for the Tars in Team A competition, finishing in sixth place.
On the women's side,
Neilly Ross continued her domination of the sport with a pair of first place finishes. She reached 39.5 off rope in the slalom, scoring 102 points ahead of Alabama's Anna Gay, who posted a score of 98.5. Then, on a her tricks run, Ross obliterated the competition with a final tally of 5650, nearly 900 points more than the second-place finisher, Gay.
Peke Angulo also competed for the A team, finishing seventh in slalom and eighth in tricks.
For the B team,
Kamil Belmrah made a statement with a slalom score of 111.50, reaching 3.5 buoys at 39.5 off.
Will Bruzzese finished second with a score of 99, while
Dylan Trask also competed.
Nathan Cherry had the top tricks score with an 840.
Next up for ski is the South Atlantic Regional, held at Clemson University. teams will compete this Saturday and Sunday, September 24-25.
