Scott Rawles - Hall of Fame Class of 2021 - Athlete

One of the most important annual celebrations of the state’s snow sports industry, the Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame induction, is on tap for Sunday, August 22 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. For the next several weeks leading up to the 2021 Hall of Fame Celebration, the CSM will be highlighting inductees and annual award recipients. Tickets for the event are on sale: HERE.

Scott Rawles, a former professional mogul skier and U.S. Ski Team Moguls coach, was responsible for Olympic medalists such as Toby Dawson, Jeremy Bloom and Hannah Kearney, now living in Breckenridge.

Scott Rawles enjoyed a standout competitive career from 1981-1994 as a professional mogul skier, with seven career wins, 20 podiums and five top-three finishes in the overall standings on the World Pro Mogul Tour. That passion for competition soon spilled over to coaching as he helped to develop the Team Breckenridge freestyle program as a moguls coach and then program director from 1989-2001. He along with colleague John Dowling had 14 athletes qualify for the U.S. Freestyle Team.

During the course of his coaching tenure with the U.S. Team, Scott coached at five freestyle world championships resulting in 20 medals and four different world champions in moguls and dual moguls. Under his direction, the U.S. Freestyle Team won the Nations Cup in 2010, 2012 and 2013, and he was named USSA International Coach of the Year on three separate occasions.

After 14 years, Scott moved on from the national team in 2014 only to be quickly recruited by the Chinese moguls team as their head coach. Scott has qualified two athletes for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, his fifth Winter Games coaching assignment. At the four previous Winter Olympic Games, he helped the United States Team to seven medals, including Salt Lake City 2002 silver medalists Travis Mayer and Shannon Bahrke; Torino 2006 bronze medalist Toby Dawson; Vancouver 2010 gold medalist Hannah Kearney and bronze medalists Shannon Bahrke and Bryon Wilson; and Sochi 2014 bronze medalist Hannah Kearney.

This past year, Scott hosted one of our popular “Through the Lens’ programs at the Museum. Click HERE to watch or view below.

You can also watch his Tribute Video below:

If you cannot attend the Hall of Fame Celebration in person, please consider making a tribute gift: HERE.