Ni Hao - Hello in Mandarin. TEAM USA is here in China!
If you didn't know, we are here for the World University Championships of water skiing. We have a team of college skiers that are going to compete to defend their title as World University Water Ski Team Champions.
The USA is bringing a solid team of 7 skiers. Regina Jaquess, Alex Lauretano, Cale Burdick, Storm Selsor, Tomlin Wilson, Ryan Selsor, and Jenna Sligar (Alt.) make up the competitors that will proudly be wearing the stars and stripes. Jeff Surdej is the Coach and Cris Kodiak is the Manager. Cheering contingent will be made up of family and friends: Mike Lauretano (Alex's dad), Terry Selsor (Storm's dad), Russ Selsor (Ryan's dad), Cyndi Burdick (Cale's mom), Melinda Wilson (Tomlin's mom) and Jerri dePingre (Tomlin's family friend).
Everyone met in Chicago on Friday night with no problems. Set the alarms for 3:30am (that was a little more of a problem) and headed to the airport. Continental Airlines flew us to Newark/New Jersey and then on to Beijing. The airplane was awesome. Everyone had their own TV screen with 350 movies, hundreds of TV shows and games all on demand at your fingertips. This combined with sleep helped make the 13 hours fly right by.
Team USA landed in the airport at 1:50pm (Sunday) and there were WUC (World University Championships) representatives there to guide us.
If you didn't know, we are here for the World University Championships of water skiing. We have a team of college skiers that are going to compete to defend their title as World University Water Ski Team Champions.
The USA is bringing a solid team of 7 skiers. Regina Jaquess, Alex Lauretano, Cale Burdick, Storm Selsor, Tomlin Wilson, Ryan Selsor, and Jenna Sligar (Alt.) make up the competitors that will proudly be wearing the stars and stripes. Jeff Surdej is the Coach and Cris Kodiak is the Manager. Cheering contingent will be made up of family and friends: Mike Lauretano (Alex's dad), Terry Selsor (Storm's dad), Russ Selsor (Ryan's dad), Cyndi Burdick (Cale's mom), Melinda Wilson (Tomlin's mom) and Jerri dePingre (Tomlin's family friend).
Everyone met in Chicago on Friday night with no problems. Set the alarms for 3:30am (that was a little more of a problem) and headed to the airport. Continental Airlines flew us to Newark/New Jersey and then on to Beijing. The airplane was awesome. Everyone had their own TV screen with 350 movies, hundreds of TV shows and games all on demand at your fingertips. This combined with sleep helped make the 13 hours fly right by.
Team USA landed in the airport at 1:50pm (Sunday) and there were WUC (World University Championships) representatives there to guide us.
We stored the skis at the airport, and then took shuttles to the Beijing hotel. Instead of sleeping, we decided to push through the night so that we can get ourselves on Chinese time as soon as possible.
We had a team dinner at We Wan in Beijing. Awesome stuff. Dumplings, Roast Duck, Spicy Pork, Chicken, Tofu soup. You name it, the team tried it. After that, did a little shopping and then took cabs back to the hotel and hit the sack. Tomorrow will be a day of sightseeing for the team, Great Wall, Olympic Bird's Nest, Water Cube, and then travel to Tianjin (the site of the tournament).
Tune in here for all TEAM USA updates.
We had a team dinner at We Wan in Beijing. Awesome stuff. Dumplings, Roast Duck, Spicy Pork, Chicken, Tofu soup. You name it, the team tried it. After that, did a little shopping and then took cabs back to the hotel and hit the sack. Tomorrow will be a day of sightseeing for the team, Great Wall, Olympic Bird's Nest, Water Cube, and then travel to Tianjin (the site of the tournament).
Tune in here for all TEAM USA updates.
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