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Ski Team Receives History-Maker Award from Ski Archives
10/31/2008 12:00 AM | Skiing
Oct. 31, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY - The University of Utah ski team was honored with the History-Maker Award from the J. Willard Marriott Library Ski Archives at the 18th annual Ski Affair, held on Oct. 16.
The award was given in recognition of the teams' 11 national championships, a host of conference and individual honors and for heightening the image of Utah's renowned ski offerings, said Dr. Greg Thompson, Director of Special Collections at the library and co-founder of the Ski Archives.
The U. ski team's 60-year march to glory began with the 1947-1948 team, which won the national intercollegiate championship riding the ski prowess of Jack Reddish, Dick Movitz, Dev Jennings and Ann Winn, who were named to the U.S. Olympic Team that year. Coached by Friedl Lang, others on that historic U. team were Dick Kirby, Steve Nebeker and Bill Beesley.
The first U. women's ski team was organized a year later. Its members were Lora Craddock, Marie Church, Sheila Wherritt, Betsy Sugden, Janet Walker, Dorothy Paulson, June Rasmussen and Amy Toda.
The most notable era of the team's 60 years came under the tenure of coach Pat Miller, who started at the U. in 1974 as assistant coach and took the helm two years later. During his 21 years with the team, the U. recorded nine NCAA titles, 17 conference championships and had 251 team members receive All-American recognition.
Previous Ski Affair History-Maker award recipients include local Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and World Cup competitors, the U.S. Forest Service, members of the 10th Mountain Division of World War II fame, ski patrol members and ski instructors.
The University of Utah Ski Archives was founded in 1989 to locate, preserve, catalogue the ski history of the region. The archives contain more than 100,000 images (20,000 digitized and available on line), 250 manuscript collections and more than 250 oral histories.
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