Chuck,

I would like to nominate Jennifer Ann Maloney from Richfield (Whitewater, Crandon) Wisconsin as Footer of The Month. Jenny has been barefooting for 3 years as of this summer.  She is also on the U.W. Whitewater three event team and does well in slalom, wakeboarding, and the jumping aspect of that sport.  I haven't met too many people with the passion that she shows about our sport.  She eats, sleeps, and breaths skiing.  She spends her summers in Crandon home of Footstock skiing for the Crandon Show Ski Team.  She is very well rounded in the skiing world.  Her first tournament was FootStock 2004.  She also competed in Minneapolis at Faceplant Fest in 2004. She used them as a learning experience and also as motivation to become better.  The summer 2005 she spent time training with Bucky Dailey.  Nearly every morning before the sun was up they were in the boat preparing to ski.  If she wasn’t skiing with him she had her family boat out pulling other kids from the team.  All that summer she just worked hard to be better at everything.  Then came the shining moment, the 2005 Manitowish Waters Midwest Open figure eight where she took first place in the women's division and you have never seen a more gracious winner.  Jenny followed that up with a great showing at Foot Stock that year and was undefeated until an untimely injury occurred.  She busted her ear drum and wasn't able to finish the weekend.  My personal opinion is she definitely had a shot at the top three.  Jenny then traveled with me to the Dam to Dam in Austin. Not planning on skiing she didn't bring a wetsuit but she was convinced to ski on Andrea Eggert's team and was a rock for that team.  After FootStock was over, she spent time with Mike Seiple and started learning back deeps and was successful on the short line a few times although it wasn't good enough for her and she plans to have them early this summer.  Its great seeing the drive she has for our sport.  This summer she has been up in Crandon since the middle of June and has skied with Jim Cochran and some of the other guys on her team again and is learning tumble turns. There is also a strong possibility you'll see her skiing in the 2006 BFC Racing Cup Series on The Whipping Crew. She has been working on that and recently completed a 5.5 mile run on her lake.  I look forward to seeing her progress this summer and working with her myself on some endurance stuff and see what happens in the future for her.

Sincerely,
Aaron Schoelzel

Congratulations Jenny!  You're definitely deserving of a Footer of the Month.  I'll give you extra points for having to ski and put up with Schoelzel on a regular basis.  LOL!  Keep up the good work and we hope to see you at the starting line in a Cup Series Race this year.

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