Shirle Steel

Ski Queen of 1946, then the club's women's downhill champion three years running

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown: by February 1946, with the Great Falls High School Ski Club
First worked here: January 1946, secretary-treasurer of the new high-school ski club
Years at Showdown: 1946–1949
Positions: Secretary-treasurer, Great Falls High School Ski Club (the junior club), 1946
Coach of the girls on the Great Falls High School ski team, 1949
Awards: Great Falls Ski Queen, crowned at Kings Hill, 17 February 1946
Great Falls Ski Club women's downhill champion, 1947, 1948 and 1949
Great Falls Ski Club women's combined champion, 1948 and 1949

What they did

11 entries

9 January 1946Elected secretary-treasurer of the new Great Falls High School Ski Club, seventy-five charter members, with Cliff Steel its president
7 February 1946The one girl among six Great Falls High School skiers who left for the Northern Rocky Mountain meet near Dillon, the paper's ‘five hits and a miss’
17 February 1946Crowned Great Falls Ski Queen at Kings Hill by Robert M. Darling of the Chamber of Commerce, with Mrs. Mary Little and Mrs. Doris Sherman her attendants
24 March 1946Second to Mary Little in both the women's downhill and the women's slalom at the club's tournament at Kings Hill
June 1946One of fourteen club members to pass the Red Cross advanced first-aid course, taught by Al French, that qualified them for the National Ski Patrol
23 March 1947Won the women's downhill at the club's city tournament at Kings Hill, a student at Montana State College
January 1948Named by the club among the possible members of a proposed women's senior ski team, back in Great Falls from Montana State College
March 1948Won the women's downhill on 14 March and the women's combined title a week later, at the club's annual races at Kings Hill
January 1949Coached the girls of the Great Falls High School ‘Bison’ ski team, while Tom Lyon drilled the boys
27 March 1949Won the women's downhill for the third year running, in 2:20.1, fifteen seconds ahead of Mrs. Lydia Nettles
3 April 1949Won the women's combined again, the club's women's champion for 1949

1 document

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 1, 9, 10, 21, 23, 65, 66, 67, 71, 74, 75