By Jack Burden

The 2025 Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard Tournament is officially set. Invitations were finalized this weekend following the second and final Masters Qualifying event, held at Championship Lake in Auburndale, Florida.

The roster features defending Masters champions, current world record holders, and winners of three other Nautique-sponsored tournaments from the past 12 months. Roughly half of the field earned their spots based on performances at two qualifiers staged in Central Florida over the past two weekends.

In total, 40 athletes secured berths in the open divisions. Among the notable qualifiers are Freddy Krueger, who turned 50 earlier this month and continues to defy expectations, and Freddie Winter, returning less than a year after suffering a broken femur.

Here is the full list of qualified athletes, along with the criteria by which each earned their invitation:

Masters Athletes

Men’s Slalom

• Cole McCormick (Defending Masters Champion)
• Nate Smith (World Record Holder)
• Robert Hazelwood (Botaski ProAm Champion)
• William Asher (CA ProAm Runner Up)
• Charlie Ross (Moomba Masters Champion)
• Thomas Degasperi (Qualifier #1)
• Dane Mechler (Qualifier #2)
• Frederick Winter (Qualifier #2)

Women’s Slalom

• Regina Jaquess (Defending Masters Champion & World Record Holder)
• Jaimee Bull (Botaski ProAm Champion)
• Whitney McClinctock Rini (CA ProAm Champion)
• Venessa Leopold Vieke (Qualifier #1)
• Paige Rini Pigozzi (Qualifier #1)
• Allie Nicholson (Qualifier #2)
• Alexandra Garcia (Qualifier #2)
• Neilly Ross (Qualifier #2)

Note: Christhiana De Osma qualified as runner-up to McClintock Rini and Jaquess at the Moomba Masters but has opted to compete in the Junior Masters instead.

Men’s Trick

• Jake Abelson (World Record Holder)
• Matias Gonzalez (Botaski ProAm Runner Up)
• Joel Poland (Moomba Masters Runner Up)
• Patricio Font (Qualifier #1)
• Louis Duplan-Fribourg (Qualifier #1)
• Dorien Llewellyn (Qualifier #2)
• Adam Pickos (Qualifier #2)

Note: Defending champion Martin Labra is sidelined due to injury.

Women’s Trick

• Anna Gay Hunter (Defending Masters Champion)
• Neilly Ross (World Record Holder)
• Erika Lang (Botaski ProAm Champion)
• Paige Rini Pigozzi (Qualifier #1)
• Giannina Bonnemann Mechler (Qualifier #1)
• Kennedy Hansen (Qualifier #2)
• Aliaksandra Danisheuskaya (Qualifier #2)
• Olivia Chute (Qualifier #2)

Note: Alexia Abelson qualified as runner-up to Lang, Gay, and Ross at the Moomba Masters but will compete in the Junior Masters.

Men’s Jump

• Joel Poland (Defending Masters Champion)
• Ryan Dodd (World Record Holder)
• Freddy Krueger (CA ProAm Champion)
• Luca Rauchenwald (Moomba Masters Runner Up)
• Louis Duplan-Fribourg (Qualifier #1)
• Jack Critchley (Qualifier #1)
• Emile Ritter (Qualifier #2)
• Igor Morozov (Qualifier #2)

Women’s Jump

• Hanna Straltsova (Defending Masters Champion)
• Lauren Morgan (CA ProAm Runner Up)
• Brittany Greenwood Wharton (Moomba Masters Champion)
• Aliaksandra Danisheuskaya (Qualifier #1)
• Regina Jaquess (Qualifier #1)
• Aaliyah Yoong Hannifah (Qualifier #2)
• Valentina Gonzalez (Qualifier #2)

Note: Jacinta Carroll Weeks also qualified as the world record holder but has retired from professional competition.