BY KAREN BOSSICK

Three Sun Valley residents have been named to the Will and Jean Picket Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

Muffy Davis, Rick Kapala and Graham Anderson have been named to the Ski Hall of Fame, which is housed in the Alf Engen Ski Museum in the S. J. (Joe) Quinney Winter Sports Center at Utah Olympic Park.

They will be inducted into the storied hall on Aug. 20, 2026, during ceremonies at the Chateaux Deer Valley.

Muffy Davis was honored with a bronze sculpture in Sun Valley’s Champions Meadow in 2023.

MUFFY DAVIS was a top-ranked junior skier with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation aiming for the Olympic stage before a 1989 training accident left her paralyzed. She pivoted to adaptive sports with historic success. As a mono-skier, she secured four Paralympic medals, a World Championship gold and seven World Cup titles.

She later transitioned to handcycling, winning three gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Following her athletic career, she served her community in the Idaho House of Representatives and as a Blaine County Commissioner.

RICK KAPALA has coached SVSEF athletes to 40 U.S. National and Junior National Championships, as well as medals at the World Junior Championships and Paralympic Winter Games. A three-time U.S. Ski & Snowboard Cross-Country Coach of the Year, he also co-founded the National Nordic Foundation. He is currently the director of Sport Development for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation.

GRAHAM ANDERSON is a titan in ski sport administration who served as president of the Pacific Northwest Ski Association, the U.S. Ski Association and the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. For 40 years, he was a U.S. delegate to the International Ski Federation (FIS), where he helped codify the Super-G discipline and develop the breakaway race gate. Professionally, he revolutionized resort safety and insurance market competition across North America.

Graham Anderson, who began his skiing journey in 1947 on Sun Valley’s slopes, skied Bald Mountain until he was 86.

All three are already in the Community Library’s Wood River Museum of History + Culture Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame.

Their induction will bring the number of members in the Hall to 97. Others in the museum include Sun Valley Olympic medalists Gretchen Fraser, Picabo Street and Christin Cooper, Sun Valley Resort Founder Averell Harrriman, former Sun Valley Ski School Director Sigi Engl, Sun Valley Ski Pole Inventor Edward Scott, Sun Valley’s Nordic Olympic Coach Leif Odmark, Stein Eriksen, McCall Nordic Olympian Lyle Nelson, Jack Reddish, Ted Ligety, Kit DesLauriers, Alf and Corey Engen,

Ceremony festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with a reception followed by dinner and the induction ceremony. Tickets to the event cost $165 per person with sponsorship tables ranging from $2,500 to $3,000. Tickets can be purchased at https://events.humanitix.com/2026-hof.