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2024-25 Waterski Roster

Pato Font

  • Class Senior
  • High School Windermere HS
  • Hometown Cuernavaca, Mexico

Biography

2023
- Repeated as NCWSA Tricks National Champion with a run of 7,260
- Also finished 9th in slalom at the NCWSA 
- Broke his own collegiate record with a trick run of 7,560 at the FSC Showdown

2022
- Took home the gold medal in tricks at the NCWSA National Championship
- Set a collegiate record for points in a tricks run (7,220) at the FSC Showdown
- Also competed in slalom in both events

2021
- Finished 5th in tricks at the NCWSA National Championship
- Finished 1st in tricks at the FSC Showdown with a run of 6,910

International Competition
- Ranked #1 in the world since 2019
- Matched his WORLD RECORD 12,690 points at the 2023 IWWF World Championships, earning gold
- Broke his own WORLD RECORD with a tricks run of 12,690 at the 2023 Nautique Masters
- Set a WORLD RECORD for tricks with a score of 12,590 at the John Meyer Memorial in Palm Bay, Florida in 2022
- Won the 2022 US Open with 11,740 points
- Earned a tricks gold medal at the 2021 IWWF U-21 Waterski Championship
- US Masters, US Open, U21 World Cup Pan-Am Games gold medalist in 2021
- IWWF Male Athlete of the Year in 2019
- Youngest gold medalist ever at the 2019 Pan-Am Games
- 2x Junior World Trick Champion, setting a points record (12,050) along the way
- Skied in the Junior Masters Championship at the age of 10

Personal
- Son of Sergio and Aline, both professional skiers
- His grandfather, Jorge Font Gimeno, set a world record for figure ski in 1962
- Brother, Diego, also skied at Rollins
- His cousin, Pablo, is a current skier at Rollins

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior