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National champs!
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Top: The Aquanuts close the national championship show with a three-top, fourhigh pyramid. The 31-skier ballet line performed by the Twin Lakes Aquanuts at last weekend’s national championships took home its fifth-straight national title.
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Aquanuts’ surprise finish overwhelms team president By Ed Nadolski EDITOR IN CHIEF
Cindy Amore admitted Monday that she’d be lying if she said she knew the Aquanuts were going to come away with a national championship last weekend. Amore, president of the Twin Lakes-based water show organization, knew the team was talented – and that a top-three finish was possible. But first place? “Everyone was so totally overwhelmed when they announced the second-place finisher,” Amore said. “We couldn’t believe it.” It meant only one thing: the Aquanuts were Division 1 champions at the 41st Indmar Marine Engines Show Ski Nationals. The last time the Aquanuts claimed a national title was 1984 – the last of three straight national titles for the team. “Most of the kids weren’t even born then,” Amore said See the national champs People still have several opportunities to see the national championship-winning show presented by the Aquanuts. The organization has regular performances scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday nights at Lance Park, Twin Lakes, through Sept. 5.
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of the current team. “We knew we had a good show,” she added. “We skied almost flawlessly – we had only six falls – and everything came together. “We were truly dumfounded and amazed.” The awards ceremony and honorary emergency vehicle escort back into Twin Lakes followed two days of competition involving 14 teams from around the nation on the Rock River in Loves Park, Ill. All the teams displayed skiing tricks and comedy acts for an audience in their themed shows. The 2015 Aquanuts performed the show “College,” loosely based on the 1980 classic movie “Animal House.” Three champion acts The Aquanuts won three separate events on their way to the national team title – ballet line, swivel performance and barefoot act. Amore said it is hard to match the difficulty and artistry of the ballet line, which captured its fifth-straight national title. The Aquanuts won top honors again with their 31-skier, all-female ballet line. The complex performance starts with nine swivel skiers, followed by a thread-the-needle pick up of the remaining 22 skiers – 11 on each side. The move, originally con-
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