Hannah Stopnicki — a competitive water skier from Montreal’s West Island — clinched her second straight Junior Masters Women’s trick title in May in Pine Mountain, Georgia, and she did it in convincing fashion scoring 7,290 points, which was 1,300 more than the next closest competitor. “It was so exciting. I mean, look, winning is awesome.
I love winning. I think it’s it’s super fun,” said Stopnicki. “I just decided to take every last moment in and just enjoy the process and went out completed my runs really good, had some little bobbles wasn’t perfect, but kind of just used my grit to get through it and that was awesome.
” With the Junior Masters victory, Stopnicki adds to her long list of water ski titles over the years. She is the current Junior World Champion, a two-time PanAm Champion, and a four-time Canadian National Champion. “About six months ago I started to realize that I have potential and I want to make the most of it.
I started to take every single moment of my training as an opportunity to reach my goals,” she explained. RELATED: She’s talented and passionate for a sport that we might not think of right now, due to cold Canadian winters. But 16-year-old Montrealer, Hannah Stopnicki is making waves – literally.
The two-time...
CityNews first introduced you to 16-year-old Hannah Stopnicki at the beginning of this year.The two-time Pan American waterskiing champion just returned to Montreal, bringing along something.
