Top skiers and resort owners receive recognition

Bill Marolt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association since 1996, was inducted into the UC Sports Hall of Fame.

Marolt was a four-time NCAA ski champion, three-time U.S. alpine champion and 1964 Olympian while a student at CU. He coached the Golden Buffaloes to seven consecutive NCAA ski titles (1972-78). He went on to become U.S. alpine director during 1978-84 and returned to CU as athletic director in '84.

In the past decade, USSA has achieved its greatest success, including a record 10 Olympic medals in 2002 and again in '06 and 15 World Championships medals during the 2003 season.

Honored by the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame:

Marv Melville dominated in the regional racing circuit in the 1950s-60s, was two-time Olympian and was University of Utah and Olympic ski coach.

Cal McPhie developed Little Mountain and Gorgoza Ski Areas.

Dick Movitz was a member of the University of Utah ski team. He was a winner of collegiate and U.S. championships and competed in the 1948 Olympic Games and on the FIS circuit.

Dev Jennings, now deceased, was a national collegiate champion with the University of Utah. He competed in the 1948 Olympic Winter Games and was a member of the storied 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

Jack Reddish, now deceased, was on the 1948 and 1952 U.S. Olympic Ski Teams. He won the National Ski Association's downhill and combined titles in 1948 and the national slalom and combined events in 1950 and 1952.

Marthenius Strand, now deceased, was from Oslo, Norway. He organized the first ski club in the region in 1915, was a ski jumping tournament promoter at Ecker Hill in the 1920s and 1930s and engineered the first chair lift in Utah at Alta. He was a nationally recognized ski jumping judge, U.S. Olympic Committee member and was instrumental in organizing the Intermountain Ski Association.

Honored by the National Ski Area Association:

Richard D. (Dick) Bass, owner and chairman of Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort, was awarded the association's Lifetime Achievement Award this year.

Bass' involvement in the ski industry began in 1962 when he invested as one of the original limited partners in the Vail Ski Resort development in Colorado. Since then, he has served on the board of directors of Vail Associates Inc., assisted with Vail's development of the Beaver Creek Ski Resort under his brother, Harry Bass Jr., and owned stock in the Aspen Ski Corp. and the Alta Ski Lifts Co.

Bass began work on Snowbird in October 1969 and had the first lifts turning by December 1971. Bass has since overseen the continued growth of Snowbird into a world-renowned, year-round destination mountain resort.

In April 1985, at age 55, Bass became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest and the first to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. His adventures are chronicled in the book he wrote, "Seven Summits."