’26 NESS Season Standings updated

Half the 2026 Northeast Slalom Series Presented by Radar Skis qualifiers are in the books and this year’s series is looking like it’s going to be the biggest and most competitive in its 11-year history.

A few updates:

1) View the season standings here. Dennis Jenks is leading the adult field with Skip Hommel in second and Jason Peckham in third. Sydney Zmetra is only ten points behind Jason in fourth. In juniors, Gwyneth and Evelyn Peckham are bracketing Aaron Bartlett for the top-three spots.


2) This year’s sponsor support has been awesome, led by Radar Skis which has returned a second year as presenting sponsor. Additional sponsors include h2oproshop/Fogarty’s Lake Flower Marina, New England Water Ski Collective, Zmetra Clear Spans, Avon Old Farms Skiers, Pangaea Puddle, FTI Coach, Cadillac Builders, Hinman Builders and an anonymous past series winner. Please thank our sponsors and give them your business when possible.


3) The huge number of participating skiers and the amazing sponsor support mentioned above means that we will have our largest ever prize pool: approximately $4,000 in cash and a new Radar ski to the adult winner and a D3 ski to the junior winner. That’s roughly $8,000 worth of prizes!


4) The series homestretch begins tomorrow at Twin Lakes, followed by Eastern Regionals which always promises a motherload of series points. Avon and Peck’s fill out the qualifiers, with the head-to-head finals, some of which will be under the lights, Sept. 5 at Pangaea. View full schedule here.

Eastern Region Winter Meeting

All ,

The meeting is this weekend on Saturday 1/10/2026.  We will meet via Zoom starting at 9:00am  the link for the meeting is below.

https://zoom.us/j/96538265951?pwd=SmKkfB27HB6EgTRdAIgbb3pMRvE1Vy.1

Please note that the meeting will be recorded for the minutes and AI note taking in enable for this meeting.

I look forward to seeing as many people as possible on Saturday.

Best Junior PanAm Athlete Of The Year

Jake Ableson has the distinct honor of being nominated as one of 7 males to be chosen from to be the PanAm male junior athlete of the year. He can use all our supposrt to vote for hime to be the winner. Please follow the think to vote now and often and let get Jake Vote the PanAm Junior Male athlete of the year!

Here is the Link https://www.panamsports.org/panam-sports-awards-2025/

2025 Northeast Slalom Series Finals held under the lights!

The Northeast Slalom Series presented by Radar Skis celebrated its 10th season under the lights!

Congrats to the champions, Chris Afonso (adults) and Charlie Bellefeuille (juniors), and to all who qualified.

Special thanks to Radar Skis for its support and to Pangaea Puddle for hosting. Drone video by Jason Peckham and photos by Barak Bejerano and Jodi Bellefeuille.

EVP Welcome and Regional Meeting Minutes and Financial Report

Greeting all. I hope that everyone has had a great end to the season. It is still warm out and hopefully everyone is still skiing a ton but the end is near as it happens here in teh east. For those of you who don’t know me my name is Matt Byrne and I am the newly appointed (as of the summer meeting at waterski nationals) EVP. I hope to serve the east in the best capacity that I can. Please feel to reach out to me anytime to discuss anything that you would like. I can be reach via email at easternevp@gmail.com.

I have uploaded the minutes form the summer meeting and the financials that were reported during the summer meeting. These can be found under the governance tab.

Enjoy the reast of the seaon!

Matt Byrne – Eastern Region EVP – easternevp@gmail.com