AUBURN – Four Olympic skiers headline the sixth-annual class of the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.

Julie Parisien and Bob Kendall of Auburn, Leslie Bancroft-Krichko of Paris and Dan Simoneau of Livermore Falls will be inducted Friday at Lost Valley Ski Area.

Auburn ski jumper Bill Cummings, Sugarloaf and Carrabassett Valley Academy co-founder King Cummings, former Pleasant Mountain ski director Hans Jenni, U.S. Ski Team and Gould Academy coach Tim LaVallee of Winthrop and eight-time NCAA champion coach Pat Miller round out the distinguished group.

Founded in 2003, the state hall of fame has no shortage of candidates among the homegrown skiers, coaches and entrepreneurs who have excelled beyond Maine’s borders.

“The people in Maine are pretty much no-nonsense about life,” said Parisien, citing several of her fellow 2008 inductees as a secret to her success. “They’re no-frills. You don’t talk about yourself. That’s the atmosphere I grew up around. You don’t have to be cocky or aggressive.”

Parisien and Simoneau each competed in three Olympics. Parisien scored a pair of top-five finishes at the 1992 Albertville Games. Simoneau, who accompanied the Nordic team to Lake Placid, Sarajevo and Calgary, was a two-time U.S. national champion.

“It was more than I ever could have expected and more than I could have hoped for,” Simoneau said.

Bancroft won two U.S. championships, posted top-10 finishes at the World Cup level and experienced the Olympics in 1980 and 1988.

Both Bancroft and Simoneau were recruited to the national team out of high school.

“My first winter we were supposed to go to Montana and train, but there wasn’t any snow.

“So we went to Norway, and there still wasn’t any snow, so we ended up in Austria,” Bancroft said. “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, these guys really know how to travel.’ “

Kendall starred with a pair of state championship teams at Edward Little High School and went on to the University of Colorado.

In 1972, he skied the Nordic combined event in the Winter Games. Later, Kendall returned to his collegiate alma mater and led the Buffaloes’ Nordic squad to a pair of NCAA championships.

Bill Cummings also had a hand in an Olympic career, instructing and inspiring brother Norm to that level. An elite jumper himself, Bill anchored teams at EL, New Hampton Academy and the University of Maine.

King Cummings was an important behind-the-scenes presence in Sugarloaf’s ascension as a major ski resort in the 1970 and ’80s. He also helped launch CVA, the prep school at the base of the mountain that has propelled dozens of skiers to Olympic and international glory.

Kendall and King Cummings will be inducted posthumously. Accepting on behalf of Kendall are his parents, Dick and Mary, who were inducted in 2005 for their years of volunteer work in the ski community.