The Malisani Family

Six of one family on the patrol at once — Christmas 2014

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: on the Great Falls Ski Patrol — Tony its spokesman by March 2011
Years at Showdown
Positions: Angelo Malisani — Great Falls Ski Patrol, the first of the family to join, after Showdown's Team Extreme and freestyle team
Tony Malisani — Great Falls Ski Patrol: its spokesman in March 2011, director in the autumn of 2014, president in February 2015
Karen Malisani — Great Falls Ski Patrol, by 2014-15
Nick Malisani — Great Falls Ski Patrol, a rookie in 2014-15
Awards: Tony Malisani — the Great Falls Ski Patrol's Co-anchor award, with Dan Smoot, May 2012

What they did

4 entries

March 2011Tony Malisani, the patrol's spokesman, invited skiers and snowboarders fifteen and older to spend a day at Showdown shadowing a patroller, to find new members
Christmas 2014All six Malisanis patrolled together over the Christmas break: Tony and Karen, their son Angelo, their two daughters, and Nick, a rookie that winter
February 2015Tony Malisani, president of the Great Falls Ski Patrol, told the Great Falls Tribune he had once thought patrollers were “people in red coats who skied around and were really nice”
Angelo joined the patrol first, after Showdown's Team Extreme and freestyle team; Tony followed a couple of years later with one of his daughters, then Karen and the other daughter, then Nick, as soon as he was old enough