Tony Angland

Racer, course setter, junior coach and club president

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: February 1960, setting race courses
Years at Showdown
Positions: Race chairman, the second Kings Hill Invitational, March 1962
Kings Hill Junior Racing School, assisting Harry Birkenbuel, 1963-64
Junior Racing Program, co-director with Harry Birkenbuel, 1965-66
Great Falls Ski Club board of directors, 1964-65 and 1965-66
President, Great Falls Ski Club, 1967-68
Race chairman, Great Falls Ski Club, 1969-70
Main instructor of the Buddy Werner class, 1970-71

What they did

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16 April 1961Won the men's class at the Great Falls Ski Club's annual giant slalom at Kings Hill, in 2:44.5, with Harry Birkenbuel second and Mike Bell third, at a meet of 72 racers on wet snow
March 1962Race chairman of the second Kings Hill Invitational, seventy racers on a 60-gate course set by Floyd Dupuis
31 March 1963Set the course for the club's city race, run in 28 degrees with snow falling late in the day
December 1963Joined the Kings Hill Ski School staff with Harry Birkenbuel to run its new Junior Racing School
8–9 February 1964Coached the club's junior racers, with Harry Birkenbuel, at the American Legion invitational at Libby
1964-65On the Great Falls Ski Club's board of directors, and again in 1965-66
1965-66Ran the Junior Racing Program with Harry Birkenbuel, scheduled from 11 December 1965 to 27 March 1966
May 1967Elected president of the Great Falls Ski Club, and pictured at the centre of the club's awards picture in the Tribune
13 January 1968A starter at the Kings Hill Invitational, with Bill Graham and Bill Roberts
1969-70Race chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club
1970-71On the club's race committee with Harry Birkenbuel and Lee Hunt, and main instructor of the Buddy Werner class, for racers twelve and under

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