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Joe Pete Wilson (2011) - Hall of Fame - St. Lawrence University Athletics A captain of the ski team as a junior and senior, Joe Pete competed in both cross country and jumping and helped the team to a fifth place finish in the 1958 NCAA Championships, the best in program history. He also established criteria for cross country ski instruction, now known as the Professional Ski Instructors of America and in 1980 was the manager for the U.S. Olympic Committee for the bob and luge at Lake Placid. He was inducted into the Lake Placid Hall of Fame in 2001 and was named one of the top ten people to promote the sport of cross country skiing in the U.S. in the last century in 2005.

Joseph Peter "Joe Pete" Wilson (May 22, 1935 – September 13, 2019)[1] was an American Olympic cross-country skier, who skied for the U.S. in cross-country at the 1960 Winter Olympics and later became a well-known skiing administrator in the United States. In 1959 Wilson placed first in the Olympic pre-trials in the 15k, which was held on the grounds that would soon become McKinney Creek Stadium, where the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined Winter Olympic events took place in 1960.[3] This placing set Joe Pete up as a major U.S. skier due to the number of U.S. and foreign competitors in the race.

Joseph Peter "Joe Pete" Wilson (May 22, 1935 – September 13, 2019)[1] was an American Olympic cross-country skier, who skied for the U.S. in cross-country at the 1960 Winter Olympics and later became a well-known skiing administrator in the United States. Recognized as the first commercial cross country ski area in the U.S. Summing up all his experiences to that point, his alpine ski shop experiences as a kid in Lake Placid, traveling and racing in Europe and Scandinavia, writing the cross country ski book, counseling ski and hiking clubs planning ski treks, Wilson put together a cohesive plan for this new operation. Wilson was named one of the top ten people who have done the most to promote the growth of cross-country skiing in the United States in the last century.[citation needed]