The 2021 Wakeboarding Hall of Fame induction class includes some of the sport’s most influential and notable visionaries from wake sport’s earliest years before the sports were accepted as popular action sports of today. On September 10, 2021, in Orlando Florida, the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame will induct eleven new members including pioneering athletes Shane Bonifay, Emily Copeland Durham, Jeff ...
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The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame (WHF) announces Shaun Moore as its new Business Development Director. Moore, a long-time supporter of wake sports and former professional wakeboarding athlete will direct the Hall of Fame’s business development department including developing and managing sponsorship programs. The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame, now in its seventh year, was established to honor wake sports’ pioneers and significant ...
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The World Wake Association announced that it has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame. The agreement aligns the two organizations which share the same goals of preserving the history of wakesports and honoring pioneers for their contributions, in all aspects, not solely competitive, while ensuring wakesports history is accurately recorded. For nearly a year, members ...
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Walter N. Meloon, grandson of Correct Craft’s founder and former Correct Craft CEO, has been inducted into the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame. The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame was created in 2015 to recognize those who have had an outsized impact on the sport. Each year a panel of industry leaders consider nominations to determine who will receive an invitation to ...
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The 2020 Wakeboarding Hall of Fame has announced their 2020 inductees, each of them pioneering athletes. The group includes Shannon Best, Mike Weddington, Zane Schwenk, Greg Nelson, Kristin (Buster) Lutgert Cartwright and early innovators Brannon Meek and Rich Goforth. The group also includes Lifetime Achievement recognition for pioneering wakeboarder and waterman Scott Harwood and recognition for lifelong boat manufacturer Walter ...
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The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame (WHF) recently announced its 2019 inductees. The 2019 Wakeboarding Hall of Fame Inductees are athletes, Thomas Horrell Josh Smith, Gregg Necrason and Leslie Kent, and photographer Josh Lechworth. Innovator acknowledgements for Bruno Rixen and Pat Panakos are also being named as the two foremost cable-industry innovators and lifelong sport promoters. The induction ceremony will be ...
Read More »The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame has announced its 2018 inductees: Parks Bonifay, Randall Harris, and Cobe Mikacich; Sarah Cline, innovative filmmaker Ronn Seidenglanz, and Lifetime Achievement acknowledgements for Bill Porter and Chuck Morrow, two leading industry retailers and lifelong sport promoters. The induction ceremony will be held at Surf Expo, wake sports’ leading trade show, at the Orange County Convention ...
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The Wakeboarding Hall of Fame will host its second annual induction ceremony at Surf Expo. On Thursday, September 8 at 10:30 am at the Alliance Multimedia Booth on the trade show floor, eight contributors to the history of wakeboarding will be honored with induction in a presentation hosted by wakeboarding’s Dano the Mano aka Danny Amir.. The eight new honorary ...
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