2007 Celebrity Golf & Tennis Classic
Now in its 16th year, the Alta Bates Summit Foundation Celebrity Classic was an all-around success, raising over $345,000 for Alta Bates Summit Medical Center’s programs for youth: Thunder Road and Youth Bridge. Thunder Road is a life-changing recovery program for drug and alcohol abuse for youth and their families struggling with the challenges of drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse. Youth Bridge, a mentoring and internship program, enables adolescents to complete high school and gain meaningful employment experience.
Thunder Road is a model program, and the only integrated adolescent inpatient, residential, and intensive outpatient behavioral health care program in California. for youth and their families. Thunder Road is also one of the few programs to regularly offer scholarships to youth whose families lack the resources or public assistance to pay for treatment. Since opening its doors in 1987, Thunder Road has helped more than 6,000 kids and their families.
Youth Bridge was established in 1990. The program provides academic instruction in job-readiness and health-related careers, mentoring by caring adults, paid summer internships at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and other community organizations, leadership development, a college club and community service opportunities. Youth Bridge is targeted to serve Alameda Country 9th graders through college students and has served more than 750 youth.
The 2007 Celebrity Classic was another exciting and fun event. The popular golf tournament was held at the beautiful Diablo County Club on September 10. The Celebrity Pro/Am tennis tournament, at the historic Berkeley Tennis Club on September 29, featured headliners Monica Seles and Corina Moriaru. Media celebrities and local tennis pros played doubles throughout the day with sponsored players. The Classic finale was a gala at the Claremont Resort on Saturday evening.
The dates for the 2008 Classic have already been reserved so mark your calendars: golf on September 8 and tennis on September 20.
Celebrity Classic Helps Youth Programs in the community
The 16th annual Alta Bates Summit Foundation Celebrity Classic was an all-around success, raising more than $345,000.
At the golf tournament, celebrities that took swings and putted for birdies included: KTVU Fox 2 sports reporter Fred Inglis, NBC 11 News anchor Diane Dwyer, Warriors commentator Jim Barnett, former NBA player John Lambert, former SF Giants player Greg Minton, former NFL player John Sciarra, and former MLB player Matt Young.
Results of the golf tournament held on Monday, September 10 at Diablo Country Club:
Low Gross Winning Team:
Ron Grossblatt, Brian Sears, Jason Wallace, and Joey Behrstock.
Low Net Winning Teams:
1st Place: Holly Winnen , Kim Coles, Jerry Zavagno and Julie Cox
2nd Place: Iris Wohn , Holly Colin, David Yip and Matt Young
3rd Place: Bob Oto, Mary Bailey, Tom Mishima and Ann Fukumoto
4th Place: Dr. Don Townsend, Dr. David Townsend, Gwen Townsend and Diana Tan
5th Place: Newt Millward, Ed Lampe, Mike Robertson and Alan Bjerke
Best Dressed Foursome:
(Tied with two winners) Dr. Don Townsend, Dr. David Townsend, Gwen Townsend, and Diana Tan and Linda Peltz, Bev Goggio, Tina Heldman and Diane Dwyer
Putting Contest Winners:
1st Place: Eric Chavez
2nd Place: Bruce Lassiter
3rd Place: Beth Gero
Headliners for this year’s Tennis Classic at the Berkeley Tennis Club on Saturday, September 29 th were Monica Seles and Corina Moriaru. The Celebrity Pro/Am tennis tournament featured media celebrities and local pros playing doubles throughout the day with sponsored players. The Classic finale was a gala at the Claremont Resort on Saturday evening.
Tennis Champions – winners – Group A
Steve DeVries and Rob Black
Tennis Champions – winners – Group B
Mark Orwig and Rich Walcoff
Tennis Champions – winners – Group C
Gavin Havrilenko and Scott Slocum
Thanks to everyone who participated in and/or supported the 2007 Classic.
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