Bob Beattie

Robert Prime Beattie ( ; and Katherine Simpson (née Prime; 1906–1995), a homemaker. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he participated in several sports, including football, tennis, cross country, and skiing. He continued to work concurrently for the university until 1965.

During his coaching years, Beattie was known as a demanding coach, driving his athletes hard. They were the country's first-ever Olympic medals in men's skiing. He stepped down as the U.S. Ski Team's coach in April 1969.

Promotion and commentating In 1966, Beattie co-founded the World Cup for alpine skiing. he founded the World Pro Ski Tour in 1970 and worked in promoting it, and became a NASTAR commissioner in 1970. and also covered volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He later worked as ABC's winter sports correspondent, which also involved non-alpine sports, and occasionally worked as an announcer for non-winter sports on ABC's Wide World of Sports program.

Beattie continued to manage the World Pro Ski Tour until 1982, and Bob Beattie's Learn to Ski (Bantam Books, 1967).

He also played the announcer for the arm wrestling championship in the 1987 movie Over the Top.

Honors Beattie was given the AT&T Skiing Award in 1983. He was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1984.

Personal life Beattie had two children, Zeno and Susan, from his first marriage to Ann Dwinnell. and lasted from 1971 to 1973. until his death in 2018.