CU Athletic Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2014
- Head Ski Coach, 1957-65
- Led Colorado to its first NCAA championship in 1959
- 13 1st team All-Americas, 13 individual national champions
- National Ski Hall of Fame, 1984
Beattie served as CU’s head ski coach for nine years (1957-65), leading the Buffaloes to their first NCAA championship in any sport when Colorado won the title in Winter Park ... CU repeated the following season (1960), capturing the crown in Bozeman ... The Buffs also finished as the national runner-up three times under Beattie’s watch, and regionally, won four Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association titles (with three more second place efforts) ... His skiers earned 13 first-team All-America honors (three second-team), and produced 13 individual NCAA champions ... He was just 23 when he was named CU’s ski coach, after serving for one year in the same capacity at Middlebury, his alma mater ... In 1961, he was named Head Alpine Coach for the United States Ski Team; and at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, produced four medal winners, including the first two American men to receive medals, Billy Kidd and Jimmie Heuga ... He resigned his post at CU after the 1965 ski season devote his full time to the National Ski Team (which he did until 1969) ... He served as the President of World Wide Ski Corporation, was founder and Executive Director of the World Pro Racing Tour, Executive Director of the International Ski Racers Association, Commissioner of NASTAR, founder of Bob Beattie Summer Racing camps at Mt. Bachelor, and organized such national ski racing programs as the Michelob Light Town Challenge and Appleton Rum Runs ... He was a ski commentator for ABC's coverage of the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics, and also reported for other ABC programs including Wide World of Sports ... He has appeared on "American Sportsman" and authored three books on skiing and ski racing ... In 1984, he was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame; in 1986, was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame; in 1993, he was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.
