This year’s event was once again held in the world class facilities at the Olympic Club, co-chaired by Mark Ohleyer, Olympic Club Foundation Board member and Tevis Martin, former Olympic Club Foundation Board member.
The Olympic Club Foundation Post Up Challenge 3 on 3 basketball tournament was a terrific success, with over 100 elite high school athletes from six Bay Area Counties and some skilled Weekend Warriors participating. The hoopsters were treated to a great day of competitive basketball, shooting contests and sportsmanship that was watched by peers, family and a host of coaches from the high school and college levels.
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The Olympic Club Foundation’s Ohleyer Award recipients were recently featured in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 18th.
Lowell’s Hannah Safford and Castro Valley’s James Woodard received the Olympic Club Foundation’s Ohleyer Award on Monday, February 23rd at the Foundation’s Annual Awards Banquet.
The Ohleyer Scholarship is a prestigious scholarship awarded by The Olympic Club Foundation. The recipient is a student whose athletic and academic interests are matched by personal qualities of leadership, involvement and community service.
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For the last two years, it has been my honor and privilege to serve as President of your Foundation. With 25 active Board members, two wonderful staff, but most importantly with your faith and support, we have had our best year ever. Through the execution of a focused strategy, and working closely with the Club’s Board of Directors, we have achieved a number of significant milestones in 2006, namely:
- Funded 28 grants for sports programs for less advantaged kids, totaling $355,000, which is the highest yearly total ever.
- Attained our $2 million goal, and presented our 2 millionth dollar grant to the Good Tidings Foundation.
- Made three grants to promising, needy young athletes to help them develop into the sports stars of tomorrow.
- Selected the 2006 Ohleyer Award recipient, Sam Finlayson
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Your Foundation has been hard at work this year under the adroit leadership of our President, John Trauth. We continue to grow and flourish with the indispensable help of the Club membership.
Our annual campaign from the membership yielded $105,229, an increase of 28% over last year. We had 396 donors, an increase of 26% over last year. We encourage all of our members to take part in the charitable work of the Foundation. No contribution is too small.
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The 2005 Ohleyer Award was granted to Tyrone McGraw, a senior at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. Tyrone was presented his award at the Commissioner’s Dinner in November.
The Brian Ohleyer Award is a prestigious award established in memory of the outstanding young Olympian Brian Ohleyer who lost his life in a traffic accident in 1996. This is the 5th year the Olympic Club Foundation has awarded the Ohleyer Award to an outstanding Bay Area high school student who best demonstrates the ideals exemplified by Brian’s life, an individual whose superior athletic and academic skills were matched by personal qualities of leadership and community service. Past Ohleyer Award Recipients are Jeffrey Deal, Galileo HS, Tony Dinh, Sacred Heart Cathedral HS, Natalie Joffe, Marin Catholic HS, and Sam Walsh, Serra HS.
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The shoot was an outstanding success. We received more donations than the first two years combined. The participation of board and foundation members was fantastic and all had a positive view of the fundraiser, earning $1,010.
The overall individual winner, for the second time, is our own junior Winston Parsons. The team event did not come up to the expectations with participations from the different sport sections in the Club. However, the teams that participated had fun and all had bragging rights.
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Dave Davidson, Tournament Chair, reports a record number of 288 golfers filled the Lake and Ocean Courses under cloudless skies along with warm temperatures, slight breezes and beautifully maintained fairways and greens, resulting in perfect playing conditions. A reception, silent/live auction and fabulous dinner immediately followed with over 300 guests in attendance.
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The Olympic Club Foundation’s 20th Golf Classic and Auction was well attended by 264 golfers who filled the Lake and Ocean Courses on Monday, May 16th. It took nerves of steel and a deep trust that all the weather reports would be wrong and the golf gods did listen. The day was classically ‘Lakeside Perfect’.
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