Nancy Greene Raine biography

 Nancy Greene Raine biography

Nancy Greene Raine, née Nancy Catherine Greene, (born May 11, 1943, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Canadian Alpine skier and politician who was the winner of the inaugural ladies’s World Cup (1967–68).

Greene’s household have been all avid skiers, and she or he started snowboarding earlier than she was six years outdated. Two of her sisters have been additionally members of the nationwide ladies’s crew. She was educated in public colleges at Rossland, at a enterprise faculty in Trail, and at Notre Dame University in Nelson—all in British Columbia. From 1959 to 1968 she was a member of the nationwide crew, and she or he competed on the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Winter Olympics. At the latter Games, which have been held in Grenoble, France, she received the gold medal for the enormous slalom race and the silver for the slalom.

After the 1968 Olympics, Greene turned skilled and labored in help of the nationwide crew. She additionally organized a public relations agency and have become a sports activities journalist and broadcaster. In 1969 she married Al Raine. From 2004 to 2011 she was chancellor of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. In addition, Greene Raine was concerned in politics. She was a member of the Conservative Party, and in 2009 she was appointed to the Senate. She left the physique after reaching the obligatory retirement age in 2018.