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WINDSOR JUNCTION:<\/strong> It was a Pan American Waterski Championship where all puzzle pieces (hard work) paid off for Olivia Chute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chute recorded a personal best score of 7,020 en route to seizing her first-ever international gold medal in tricks as a member of the Canadian Waterski team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was a fantastic way to end my season,\u201d said Chute in an interview on Nov. 9. \u201cSkiing a personal best in the final trick round was an amazing accomplishment for all of my hard work this season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Windsor Junction native said she was as excited about her score\u2014maybe a bit more\u2014as she was about wrapping that gold medal around her neck and packing it in her bags for the trip home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was a phenomenal way to finish off what had already been an excellent season and display my improvement over the course of the year,\u201d said Chute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike slalom and jump waterski events where the results are immediate, in trick skiing competitors have to wait for the judges to score the runs. That was the case in Chute\u2019s runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I came off the water, I was fairly confident I had done enough to secure the gold,\u201d she said, \u201chowever, there is always that lingering doubt in the back of your mind until you receive that final score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen my coach, Drew Ross, went up to collect the score sheet, and I saw the score of 7,020, I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n That score was a personal best for Chute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing able to have my best performance ever in the finals of this Pan American championship was a testament to all the hard work I\u2019ve poured into the sport this year to develop this level of consistency and ability to perform under pressure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next season should be less hectic. In 2021 the cancelled tournaments from 2020 were combined into the scheduled 2021 tournaments. She said she will be focused on the Jr. Masters set for May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what will a gold medal trick champion do with the off-season upon her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m taking the next few months off to recuperate, and catch up with my friends,\u201d chuckled Chute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”105″] WINDSOR JUNCTION: It was a Pan American Waterski Championship where all puzzle pieces (hard work) paid off for Olivia Chute. Chute recorded a personal best score of 7,020 en route to seizing her first-ever international gold medal in tricks as a member of the Canadian Waterski team. \u201cIt was a fantastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2806,82,2807,545,40],"class_list":["post-24737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-gold","tag-olivia-chute","tag-pan-amercian-waterski-championships","tag-team-canada","tag-windsor-junction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}