Head Coach since: 1992
Veteran water-skier Marc Bedsole has spent the better part of three decades leading the Rollins water ski program. Bedsole has led the Tars to two Division II Collegiate National Championships, winning back-to-back titles in 2002 and 2003.
For the the past nine seasons, Rollins has qualified for the NCWSA National Championship and posted nine consecutive top-10 finishes.
The Tars finished in fifth place at the national championships in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Felipe Franco led the 2021 squad with a first-place finish in tricks. Rollins finished sixth overall in 2022, but had two skiiers ... Pato Font and Neilly Ross ... capture the individual tricks titles.
In 2016 the Tars men, led by Dorien Llewellyn, and Josh Briant, took fourth at Nationals, while the women took fifth behind Natalia Cuglievan's tricks individual championship.
Led by Erika Lang, who won an individual championship in tricks, the Rollins women finished fifth overall while the men placed sixth in 2015.
Prior to that, the Tars were fifth in 2010 and sixth in 2011. Rollins emerged as a national favorite in 2012, finishing fifth after qualifying for Division I.
Bedsole coached the US Elite Team at the USOC 1997-99 and has been very active with Junior Development teams. As a skier, he scored five straight top-five finishes at the NCWSA Nationals in the late 1990's. He is a four-time national champion in tricks and in 2010 finished second in the event at the World Championships. Bedsole won back to back senior tricks world championships in 2012 and 2013.
In fall 2022, Bedsole represented Team USA at the International Waterski & Wakeboarding Federation World Championships in Bordeaux, France. He finished second overall in the 55+ men's tricks, and took home an overall gold medal with his fellow Americans.
Bedsole added to his trophy case in August of 2023 when he captured gold in tricks for the Men's 5 Division at the GOODE Water Ski National Championships. His score of 5900 points was more than the next four highest-finishers combined.
An owner and operator of his own ski school for the past two decades, Bedsole is a 1992 graduate of Florida Southern College where he was named All-American in 1991.
