Colorado Olympians U.S. National Sk i Hal l- of- Fame

Former CU Ski Team Members Name ...... Nation Sport Olympics Cary Adgate ...... USA ASK 1976, 1980 Buddy Werner Jimmie Huega Jim Barrows ...... USA ASK 1968 Inducted 1964 Inducted 1976 Tahir Bisic ...... BOS ASK 2002 Frank E. Brown ...... USA ASK 1960 Ingrid Langell Butts ...... USA NSK 1988, 1992, 1994 John G. Dendahl ...... USA NSK 1960 Billy Kidd Bob Beattie Michael Donald Gallagher ...... USA NSK 1964, 1968, 1972 Inducted 1976 Inducted 1984 Robert Hawes Gray ...... USA NSK 1968, 1972 Carolina Gede-Dahl ...... NOR ASK 1994 Katerina Hanusova ...... CZR NSK 1998, 2002 Lucie Hanusova ...... CZR NSK 2002 Bill Marolt Tom Jacobs Jimmie Heuga ...... USA ASK 1964, 1968 Ben Husaby ...... USA NSK 1992, 1994 Inducted 1993 Inducted 2007 Greg Jones ...... USA ASK 1976 Hank Kashiwa ...... USA ASK 1972 Robert C. Kendall ...... USA NSK 1968, 1972 Cary Adgate Michael Lafferty ...... USA ASK 1972 Andy LeRoy ...... USA ASK 1998 Inducted 2008 Beth Madsen ...... USA ASK 1988 William Marolt ...... USA ASK 1964 Clark Matis ...... USA NSK 1972 Annibale John “Ni” Orsi ...... USA ASK 1964 Eva Orvosova-Lowe ...... USA MTB 1996 Pete Patterson ...... USA ASK 1976, 1980 Kristen Petty ...... USA NSK 1988 Casey Puckett ...... USA ASK/SKX 1992, 1994, 1998, ...... 2002, 2010 Jay Jr. Rand ...... USA NSK 1968, 1972 Vladimir “Spider” Sabich ...... USA ASK 1968 Sandra Shellworth ...... USA ASK 1968 Thomas F. Upham ...... USA NSK 1968 Ondrej Valenta ...... CZR NSK 1998 Wallace J. “Buddy” Werner ...... USA ASK 1956, 1964 Ronald P. Yaeger ...... USA NSK 1972, 1976

Former CU Ski Team Coaches Name ...... Nation Sport Olympics Bob Beattie ...... USA ASK 1964, 1968 After competing as an alpine Former Buff, Head Coach, Olympian Mike Deveka ...... USA NSK 1968, 1972 , 1976, 1980 skier in four Olympic games, and Athletic Director Bill Marolt (left) former Buff Casey Puckett is Bill Marolt ...... USA ASK 1980, 1984 at his 1993 induction looking for a fifth appearance in 2010, this time in the newly Beattie coached the alpine team in 1964 and ’68; then worked as a formed freestyle skicross commentator for ABC for the 1976, 1980 and 1984 games. competition.

CU Students Not On The Ski Team Name ...... Nation Sport Olympics Neha Ahuja ...... IND ASK 2006 Jeremy Bloom ...... USA FrSK 2002, 2006 Shannon Dunn ...... USA SNB 2006 Pam Fletcher ...... USA ASK 1988 Justin Freeman ...... USA NSK 2006 William “Billy” Kidd ...... USA ASK 1964, 1968 Daron Rahlves ...... USA ASK/SKX 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 Tommy Schwall ...... USA SKIJ 2002, 2006

NSK – Nordic Skiing; ASK – Alpine Skiing; SKX – Freestyle SkiCross; MTB – Mountain Bike (summer); FrSK – Freestyle Skiing; SKIJ – Ski Jumping; SNB – Snowboarding. USA – United States; CZR – Czech Republic; ARM – Armenia; NOR – Norway; IND – India; SVK – Slovakia.

A total of 33 CU skiers have made it to the Olympics a total of 51 times. Two CU coaches have participated, coached or covered the Olympics a The 1964 US Alpine Team at the mountain top to train in Innsbruck, Austria. Six of the nine pictured have CU ties with five of the ski members of the total of nine times and eight other CU students have participated in ski- United States Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. Coach Bob Beatty and the five related events a total of 14 times. skiers with bib’s listed are the ones with CU ties. From left, Ni Orsi (334), Buddy Werner (335), Billy Kidd (331), coach Bob Beatty, Charles Fernes, Bill Marolt (332), Jimmy Huega (330), Gordon Eaton and Richard McManus.

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