Person
Lena Ruiz
- Title
- Lena Ruiz
- Description
- Two-time Tincup Cup winner and member of the Tincup Ski Patrol, 1977–1994 (fictional).
- Date
- 1958
- Rights
- Fictional person created for the Omeka S demo.
- Subject
- Ski patrol
- Ski racing
- Women skiers
- birthday
- 11-29
- Birthplace
- Harlow, Idaho
- Occupation
- Ski patroller, 1977–1994
- Organizer of Reunion Night
- Biographical Text
- Lena Ruiz won the Tincup Cup giant slalom in 1976 and 1979 and joined the ski patrol at nineteen. She was on the hill for the Big Winter of 1984–85 and for the last day in 1994. In 2004 she organized the first Reunion Night at the old lodge, and she was recorded for the oral history project at the 2019 reunion.