Rossland downhill skiing phenom Nancy Greene and her husband Al Raine are being honoured with a lifetime leadership and achievement award at the upcoming 2024 Annual Summit of the BC Sports Hall of Fame in Kamloops on Friday, Sept. 20.
The couple have been instrumental in the development and promotion of ski tourism in British Columbia, first at Whistler and now at Sun Peaks Resort. They will be honoured alongside lifetime volunteer Ron Jones as part of The Reunion at The Summit: Council of Chairs Dinner presented by the BC Sports Hall of Fame Foundation.
“We are proud to present Lifetime Leadership & Achievement Awards to Nancy Greene, Al Raine and Ron Jones, three long-standing supporters of the BC Sports Hall of Fame in particular and BC sport in general,” said Michelle Kitchen, CEO of the BC Sports Hall of Fame in a release. “We are honoured to have the chance at the Kamloops 2024 Annual Summit to recognize their contributions to the promotion of BC sport history and the power of sport overall.”
Greene and Raine have made skiing their life's work. Greene was Canada’s top ski racer through the 1960's, competing in three Olympic Games and winning gold and silver medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
Greene retired from competitive ski racing at the end of the 1968 season, but in two years of World Cup racing, she had a total of 13 victories, the most by any Canadian.
Greene has since received several honours, including in 1999, when she was voted Canada’s Female Athlete of the Century. She also received the Order of B.C. in 2004 and was named Olympic Ambassador of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
Currently, Greene is an Ambassador with Tourism Sun Peaks who skis almost daily in the winter, and is an avid golfer in the summer. She and Al built Nancy Greene's Cahilty Lodge, one of the first hotels in Sun Peaks Village.
Jones, meanwhile, has a lifetime of volunteer contributions at the highest levels of sport in B.C. and Canada. He served as the President of the BC Lions, was a member of the Executive Committee of the CFL Board of Governors and, provided 38 years of service to the BC Sports Hall of Fame including being elected as Chair in 1995.
The BC Sports Hall of Fame celebrates extraordinary achievement in B.C. sport history and inspires future generations to make their dreams come true.
As a non-profit charitable organization, the Hall curates an astounding collection of 28,000+ heritage artifacts and 100,000 archival documents representing 150-years of sport history in British Columbia.
