Team Nautique waterskiing athlete Neilly Ross is a certified two time world champion and holds two world records but she is suffering from a very modern day dilemma, everyone seems to think she is the product of artificial intelligence. With AI videos getting spammed across the internet it is easy to understand why her otherworldly smoothness is perceived as synthetic but she is very much real and crazy impressive:
“Because I get a million comments always saying this is AI.” –Neilly Ross
Neilly is incredible in a variety of disciples but she is standout in trick skiing, a highly technical sport where athletes use short, finless skis to perform rotations, flips, and wake tricks for points (kind of like aqua gymnastics). Here is Neilly making history with a trick ski record breaking run at the 2025 Worlds:
When its too cold to get out on the lake, Neilly swaps speedboats for chairlifts! Shoutout to all the folks out there that ski all year round. Cheers!
