 INT LEAGUE
August 7 & 8 Lake Thollocco @ Fort Rucker
All Events will include Wakeboard, Skate, Kneeboarding
Event will start at 9:00am daily
On site registration starts at 7:30am
The INT League, known as the “Little League of Watersports,” was started in 1993.
The INT League is an exciting league for wakeboarding, waterskiing, kneeboarding and wakeskating. We are turning these recreational activities into a SPORT! The INT League was started in Washington state with four events and has expanded into 27 states hosting over 250 events days per year. The first US Championships was hosted in Austin, Texas in 1998 with 330 competitors in 27 divisions. These competitors had one thing in mind – to be crowned the INT League champion. Our future plans include expanding events to all 50 states and international countries while continuing to host the INT Championships.
Rick Stocks, founder of the INT League, first started hosting amateur events on Greenlake in Seattle, Washington, in the early 1980’s with the Lake Sammamish Water Ski Club. As President of the Club, he found that even though the club hosted AWSA sanctioned “C” events, most of the members did not compete in the events themselves. This was due to the fact that the caliber of competition was intimidating. No one wants to always lose. Rick’s idea was to make the competition fun and based on ability levels so that all members and their families could compete and where new people could be introduced to the sport of waterskiing. Greenlake, in the middle of Seattle, was the perfect place. The Lake Sammamish Water Ski Club is still hosting events on Greenlake with the INT League and with a limit of 150 competitors, the word is out – “preregister or you won’t get in.”
Since those early days, we have done our best to keep up with the watersports industry by adding wakeboard slalom when the board first appeared on the market, later adding wakeboard freestyle and now wake skating. The INT League was the first to add competition for the wide and parabolic skis. INT’s goal is to adapt to the changing needs of the industry and host events that are fun for everyone, all ages and abilities.
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