The first of nine CU Athletic Hall of Fame profiles as CUBuffs.com celebrates this year's class which will be inducted at the Coors Events Center's George Boedecker, Jr., Court, Thursday, Oct. 30. The reception begins at 6 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 7 p.m.
Conditioning. That was the name of the game for the University of Colorado’s men’s ski team during the tenure of former coach Bob Beattie, who will enter the CU Athletic Hall of Fame later this week.
“I would consider myself a Lombardi type coach,” Beattie said. “During my time here we had a little place down below the stadium. We called it the pits, and the coaches of other programs at the university would come down to watch us practice. They would tell me that they couldn’t believe what we put the kids through. But the kids, they loved the hard work and conditioning.”
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