July 20, 2007Lee Wagner is third in Smith Mountain Lake WakefestThere's nothing like teasing folks about an upcoming event and then doing no follow-up. Yet that's what we did with last weekend's Smith Mountain Lake Wakefest contest. I wrote a big feature on brothers Lee and Joel Wagner (you can see a video of them in action HERE), while our Lake supplement had a preview of the contest. And that was it. No results story (or even brief) after the contest. I had another assignment Saturday and couldn't make it, but I could have done a better job of tracking down the results. Sorry. Lake Gaston rider Adam Fields won the tournament's top Outlaw division. As for the Wagner brothers, 18-year-old Lee got third and 17-year-old Joel didn't place. The contest drew 90 competitors. |
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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures. Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism. After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters. .....Advertisement.....
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Comments
[July 22, 2007 6:38 PM]
Tom ReederIam a proud dad and just wanted to say that my son Brian Reeder took 2nd in the outlaw div.
[July 26, 2007 5:15 PM]
Mark TaylorTom, Thanks for the report on how Brian did at the contest. I'm glad to see that one of the lake's first amazing wakeboarders is still out there tearing it up. mt