Three US Water Ski Athletes Win Titles At 2010 Junior Moomba Masters

Athletes score major titles at season-opening event in Australia

POLK CITY, Fla. – U.S. water ski athletes Makayla Haw (Rio Linda, Calif.), Lauren Morgan
(Odessa, Fla.) and Zane Nicholson (Gallatin, Tenn.) won titles in respective events Thursday as the
2010 Junior Moomba Masters concluded on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia.

Morgan won titles in women’s tricks and overall, scoring 4,050 points and 2,904.55 points,
respectively. Haw won women’s slalom, scoring 3 buoys at 35 feet off. Nicholson won men’s slalom,
scoring 4 buoys at 38 feet off. Morgan, who also won the 2009 Junior Moomba Masters’ overall title,
finished second in jumping and 10th in slalom. Haw placed third in jumping and overall, and fourth in
tricks.

U.S. athletes Anna Gay (Winter Garden, Fla.), Julia Waitt (Clermont, Fla.), Nikki Waitt
(Clermont, Fla.) and Jenna Morgan (Odessa, Fla.) also competed in the event. Gay finished second in
women’s tricks; Morgan finished eighth in women’s tricks and 13th in slalom; Julia Waitt finished seventh
in women’s slalom; and Nikki Waitt finished fourth in women’s slalom and fifth in women’s jumping.
For scores and complete results, visit www.moombamasters.com.au.

USA Water Ski was formed in 1939 as a non-profit organization promoting water skiing in the
United States. USA Water Ski is affiliated with the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (world
governing body) and is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and Pan-American Sports
Organization as the national governing body of organized water skiing and wakeboarding in the United
States.

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