Mapp wins the stop; Fooshee clinches the overall series title during the 2007 WWA Wake Park Series Final at Ski Rixen!

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November 14th, 2007

Ski Rixen hosted the final stop of the 2007 WWA Wake Park Series presented by Ten-80 this past weekend in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The event was the last stop of the cumulative series that was held at four locations across the country. There could not have been better weather for the event, as spectators poured into Quiet Waters Park throughout the day to watch the totally radical on-water action. The contest incorporated two new divisions including beginner and intermediate wakeboard that brought some of the newcomers of the sport to come out, ride and enjoy the event.

The crowd had their eye on Tommy Fooshee, who led the series in the Pro Mens division coming into the last event. Tom had won the first stop at his home park Texas Ski Ranch, as well as the Nationals at OWC and has been killing it all season long. As the Pro Men’s division moved on to the 8 man head-to-head finals, Fooshee found himself moving on to the top 4, and wound up getting taken out by local Ski Rixen rider, Marc Shuster.   Rob Mapp, another local Ski Rixen rider came into the event in 3rd place in the overall Wake Park Series standings and threw down all day long to make it into the Final head-to-head round against Shuster. Mapp, who won the KC Classic back in August rode first in the head-to-head heat and completely killed it, landing a switch toeside 720, and a massive backside 720 off the kickers, as well as an assortment of savory aerial maneuvers that left the crowd in complete awe. After all was said and done, Tom Fooshee sealed up the series with his 4th place finish behind Donald Shelbrick, and Rob Mapp overtook Josh Rice with the 1st place finish to come in second overall in the series.

As for the wakeskaters, once again Andrew Pastura made it very difficult on all the riders in his division by winning every heat he rode in on Saturday. His winning line in the finals consisted of a 3 shuv, backside bigspin, switch frontside bigspin, kickflip, varial flip and switch front bigspin off the last kicker and sealed the win to give him his second contest win of the series. Bret Little, another Texas native, sealed the overall series title with his 4th place finish in the final heat after winning two other stops including the series opener in Texas and the WWA Wake Park Nationals at OWC in September.

Anna Hajek of Orlando, Florida was the overall series winner for the Open Women’s division. Anna has stepped it up and progressed all season long, landing frontside 720’s off the kicker at her home cable park, the Orlando Watersports Complex. Josh Bank out of Boca Raton, Florida took the overall series title in the Junior Men’s Division. Josh rode solid all year long and sealed the overall series at his home cable of Ski Rixen. Look for these two to be training all winter long to come out and make a serious impact on their respective divisions next year.

Click Here for the final 2007 WWA Wake Park Series Standings

Results from the 2007 WWA Wake Park Series Final presented by Ten-80:

       Beginner Wakeboard
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Bastek, Keith                      66.67
  2  Carucci, Dominic                  53.33
  3  Martindale, Daniel                 46.67
  4  Hyams, Maggie                   18.33
              Intermediate
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Schumacher, Doug                80.00
  2  Bank, Michael              USA  66.67
  3  Franck, Norman                   63.33
  4  Palau, Joel                        43.33
        Junior Men (14-18)
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Kamper, Nick                      73.33
  2  Bank, Josh                 USA  60.00
  3  Cohen, Julian               USA  51.67
  4  Haughey, Casey           USA  43.33
            Open Women
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Brion, Alizee                       73.33
  2  Chojnacki, Kayla           USA  61.67
  3  Hajek, Anna                USA  51.67
  4  Amini, Shima               USA  43.33
    Professional WakeSkate
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Pastura, Andrew            USA  86.00
  2  Kaiser, Ben                 USA  63.33
  3  Yarbrough, Oury            USA  50.00
  4  Little, Bret                  USA  40.00

Professional Pro Men
            Finals             Heat #:   01
  1  Rob Mapp
  2  Marc Shuster
  3  Donald Shelbrick
  4  Tom Fooshee

The 2007 WWA Wake Park Series Finals was brought to you by Ten-80, Ski Rixen USA, Freestyle Watches, Shred Ready Helmets, Exceed Wetsuits, Infinispin, Markowitz Dental, WebCast TV and WakeBoarding Magazine. The official media source of the WWA Wake Park Series.

Stay tuned as WebCast TV will be airing the Series Finals on www.Ten-80.com

For any inquiries please contact the WWA at eventorganizer@thewwa.com or (407)362-7841