2005 AIS/Comcast Global Challenge a Swinging Success
Over 120 golf and tennis enthusiasts participated in the 2005 AIS/Comcast Global Challenge Golf & Tennis Tournament on September 12 at The Standard Club. Gene Eidelman, Horst Bente, Bill Hirsch and Tricia Hirsch co-chaired the event, which netted $45,000 (a 37% increase over last year) to support athletics at AIS.
Winners of the Golf Tournament were David Levinson, Derrick Stafford, John Waco and Mike Smith. Second place winners were the Georgia-Pacific Team: Tim Vanhorn, Mike Adams, Tim Sullivan and Danny Smyth. The third place team was Jeff Battaglia, Rich Mitchell, and David Mounts.
Winners of the 1st annual Tennis Tournament, coordinated by Tim Noonan of Universal Tennis Academy, were Jan Bilthouse and Wolfgang Lindheim.
In addition to volunteers and participants, the following sponsors made the tournament possible:
- Platinum Sponsor: Comcast
- Gold Sponsor: Stanford Group Company
- Lunch Sponsor: Fulton Paper Company
- Contest Hole Sponsor: Consulting Group
- Contest Hole Sponsor: Georgia-Pacific
- Contest Hole Sponsor: HCA, Inc.
- Contest Hole Sponsor: Hennessy Automobile Companies
- Contest Hole Sponsor: Quikrete
- Reception Sponsor: Patty & Gerry Hull
- Hole Sponsor: Collins, Cooper, Carusi Architects
- Hole Sponsor: Dawn & Gene Eidelman
- Hole Sponsor: Grant Thornton, LLP
- Hole Sponsor: Heidi & Horst Bente
- Hole Sponsor: New South Construction
- Hole Sponsor: Paper Connexion
- Hole Sponsor: RJM Group
- Hole Sponsor: School Specialty
- Hole Sponsor: The Staubach Company
- Hole Sponsor: UPS
- Beverage Cart Sponsor: PurDigital Media
- Court Sponsor: Universal Tennis Academy
A special thanks to Philip Leopold and the AIS Sports Booster Club for their support of the tournament, as well as to all players for their participation.