Jaimee Bull, as part of Team Canada took on some of the world's best young water-skiers this past weekend in the U21 World Waterski Championships, held at Cory Pickos Ski School in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
The Waterskiers compete in the slalom, jump and trick events, not only to attempt to win individual medals but also to accumulate points for the team event.
Jaimee is a slalom specialist and was the defending U21 world champion in that event, but she knew she would face serious competition from a very strong field of skiers including American Brooke Baldwin, who was the number 2 seed in the event.
In the preliminary round, Brooke finished in first place with a score of 4 buoys @ 10.75 m (39.5 off) when Jaimee crashed and finished with a score of 2.5 buoys.
The finals were moved ahead a day as Hurricane Ida threatened the Gulf Coast on Sunday.
In the finals, the conditions were a little windy and Brooke ran 2 buoys @ the 10.75 m line length and Jaimee ran 2.25 buoys at the same line to narrowly edge out Brooke for the gold medal and successfully defend her championship from 2019.
Team Canada finished in second place and the team gold medal went to Team USA. Team Canada members include Paige Rini (Clermont FL), Neily Ross (Winter Garden FL), Sean Kraus (Granbury TX) Jaimee Bull (North Bay ON), Shea O'Brien (Calgary AB), Carter Lucas (Saskatoon SK)
Jaimee will return now to the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, to enter her fourth year of the Mechanical Engineering program and prepare for the upcoming collegiate season.
