By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN
It’s hard to believe that it was 40 years ago this week that the first Wyoming-Montana all-star games were played. Montana that first year was led by Missoula Hellgate star Blaine Taylor. The Wyoming All-Stars swept the first series, but it didn’t take long for Montana to get the upper hand in the series. The girls All-Star portion of the series was added in the early 1990’s.
Chris Walterskirchen has been an observer of Montana sports for nearly half a century. A Kalispell native, Chris has worked in various capacities for professional and college sports organization of at various times: ranging from announcing and statistical work to the concessions and even a stint as a costumed mascot.
Chris has academic degrees in communications and elementary education. His style of sports trivia involves more than just who won and who lost, but also focuses on the obscure or human side of sports. In this blog you will learn things like the Grizzly football team has won 210 games over the 19 seasons since they have had Monte as their mascot or that UNLV is the only school that both the Griz and Lady Griz have both faced in the NCAA basketball tournament
When not following sports Chris enjoys taking care of animals of all kinds (a peacock rescue?) and reading to pre-schoolers.