USA Wakeboard announces venues for 2009 National Championships.   

Dayton/Cincinnati Ohio Metro Areas at nearly 3 million are hosting the Board, Surf and Cable Nationals.  This year’s events will be threefold, combining 11^th Annual USA Wakeboard Nationals, 4^thAnnual Grassroots WakeBoard Nationals, 3^rd Annual Wakesurf Nationals and returning back this year is USA Wakeboard Cable Nationals. Partners include, Five Rivers MetroParks, Cable Wake Parks, WakeNation and Rexin.

Dayton Ohio and Fiver Rivers MetroParks will host WakeBoard and WakeSurf and return to Eastwood Lake MetroPark.  Fairfield Ohio will host Cable at the all new WakeNation Cable Park and is located just 35 miles away from Eastwood Lake.  

All three Championships will air on NBC Universal Sports, the preeminent multiplatform destination for Olympic-related sports programming.  In a recent press release dated 2-17-09 NBCUS expanded to 45 million television households and is now available in eight of the top 10 DMAs including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Francisco and Washington, D.C  The latest expansion includes launches in the first quarter in Houston, Miami, Seattle, Denver, Portland, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Jacksonville. 

Up for grabs is the selection for Team USA at 2009 IWSF World Championship in Chuncheon, Korea from August 24 – 29, 2009.  Performance in both the Pan American Championship at Board-Up and USA WakeBoard Nationals along with current ranking with IWSF will be criteria for selection of Team USA. 

7/30/09 to 8/2/09 

Date  Time  Venue     Event 

Thru 7/30 8 am  Wake Nation Cable   Cable Prelims

Fri    7/31 8 am  Eastwood Lake MetroPark  Board & Surf Prelims

Fri   7/31 6 pm  Eastwood Lake MetroPark  Membership Dinner

Sat    8/1 8 am - Noon Eastwood Lake MetroPark  Board & Surf Prelims

Sat    8/1 2 pm  Wake Nation    Cable Finals

Sun   8/2 8 am   Eastwood Lake MetroPark  Board & Surf Finals 

USA Wakeboard Membership required for all events.  Membership and registration for 2009 Board Surf and Cable Nationals can be found online at www.usawakeboard.com