Mad-City Ski Team Wins 2024 Wisconsin State Show Ski Championships
by Scott N. Atkinson
The Mad-City Ski Team (Madison, Wis.) won the coveted Division 1 team title at the 2024 Wisconsin State Show Ski Championships, presented by Bank First, July 18-21, at Lake Wazeecha in Wisconsin Rapids.
Mad-City earned high-scoring awards for towboat driving, showmanship, sound crew total, production, overall show, high individual club act, ballet, and pyramid in tallying a grand total 1,870.66 points. The Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Show Team (Janesville, Wis.) placed second, scoring a grand total 1,827.28 points after earning high-scoring awards for dock and equipment personnel, pick-up boat crews, barefoot and doubles. The Aquanuts (Twin Lakes, Wis.) finished third with 1,521.84 points.
Badgerland (Waukesha, Wis.) won Division 2 and Plum Ski-Ters (Sayner, Wis.) won Division 3.
The Wisconsin State Show Ski Championships also included individual competition in swivel, doubles, team jump, pairs swivel and men’s and women’s freestyle jump.