Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The George Willett years, 1973–2020
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Colleen Finch
Pro patroller — the National Ski Patrol's Outstanding Ski Patroller of the Year, 2019
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- First skied at Showdown
- First worked here
- Years at Showdown
- Positions
- Great Falls Ski Patrol volunteer, roughly twenty years by 2019
- Awards advisor, National Ski Patrol Northern Division, by spring 2020
- Pro patroller, by 2025
- Awards
- National Ski Patrol Outstanding Ski Patroller of the Year, 2019 — the first Great Falls Ski Patrol member to win it
- Great Falls Ski Patrol Outstanding Instructor, 2021
- Pro Patroller of the Year, Great Falls Ski Patrol, 19 July 2025
What they did
5 entries
- March 2019One of five Great Falls Ski Patrol members Showdown thanked by name for the seventh Brock Stokke Bump Off
- October 2019Named the National Ski Patrol's Outstanding Ski Patroller of the Year, chosen from more than 30,000 patrollers, the first Great Falls Ski Patrol member to win it. She had volunteered on the patrol for roughly twenty years
- Her nomination cited her Outstanding Instructor awards of 2017 and 2018-19, and more than 600 hours a year with the patrol
- The Great Falls Ski Patrol's Outstanding Instructor, among its 2021 awards
- 19 July 2025Pro Patroller of the Year, at the patrol's banquet at Showdown. Showdown counted five pro patrollers that summer, working beside nearly sixty volunteers