Forty athletes qualified to compete at the games.
The top eight nations (including the host nation, Canada) at the 2014 Pan American Championship, each received four athlete quotas in water skiing.
A further eight spots were made available for wakeboard qualifiers.
A nation could enter a maximum of three athletes in each gender in the water skiing competition.
[1][2] Eight nations took part at the Pan American Championships, and thus all eight qualify a full team.