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Zane Schwenk

American wakeboarder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ16215542 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zane Schwenk (born July 17, 1975) is a professional wakeboarder from the United States. He became professional in 1993, and is still active in the sport today. He has competed in the X Games, and is host of the MasterCraft video series Rewind. He also has his own line of CWB wakeboards, the Absolute.

Schwenk's sponsors include CWB Wakeboards, Proline Ropes & Handles, MasterCraft Boats, Spy Optics, and Rusty Clothing.

He was born in Sarasota, Florida, and now lives in Winter Haven, Florida.

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“Zane Schwenk” enters the record as american wakeboarder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zane, Schwenk and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-07-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zane, Schwenk and American.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16215542. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zane Schwenk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.