Janelle Kirtley
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Janelle (Jane Ellen) Kirtley Godfrey (December 8, 1943 - April 28, 2017) was an American former World Champion water skier.
Janelle was born on December 8, 1943, in Birmingham, Alabama to Robert H Kirtley and Mary Leona Perry Kirtley. With the strict guidance of her parents, she learned how to ski at age 5, and started competing in water skiing tournaments in 1956. In 1959, at the age of 15, she was on the U.S. Women's National Water Ski Team and competed in Milan, Italy in 1959. In 1960 she won overall in the Masters Water Ski Tournament, and she went on to win the World Championship in the 1961 World Tournament Women's Slalom Title[1] and the 1963 Tricks and Slalom. She obtained several Water Skiing National Titles.[2] In 1961 she enrolled in the School of Nursing at St. Vincent's in Birmingham and then graduated in 1964.[citation needed] In 2001 she was recognized with the Award of Distinction from the Water Ski Hall of Fame,[3] and she was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.[4]
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