Austin Foundation Events

Guest Host:  Jean Enersen
KING 5 News Anchor

Jean Enersen is consistently named the most popular and respected news anchor in the Northwest and has won a regional Emmy for her news anchoring.  She co-anchors KING 5 News weeknight broadcasts at 5pm and 6:30pm with Dennis Bounds.  In addition to her anchor duties, Jean has made notable achievements in her specialized on health issues as the KING 5 News HealthLink reporter.

Guest Speaker: Charles "Skip" Smith
Director, Developmental Therapeutic Center
Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute

Charles V. Skip Smith received his PhD degree in Chemistry from Rice University and stayed in Houston for a number of years, where he was a Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.  While at Baylor, Skip formed a strong working partnership and friendship with Tom Hansen.  In 2000, Tom convinced Skip to join him at Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio, where Skip served as the Director of the Center for Developmental Pharmacology and Toxicology.  When Tom became CEO of Seattle Children’s Hospital, Skip was recruited here to become the Director of the newly formed Center for Developmental Therapeutics at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute.  The overall goal of the research that is being conducted in this Center is to understand how to keep children healthy and to provide the safest and most effective treatments, when treatments are needed.   

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Faith Ireland
"Just Results" Mediation & Legal Consulting
Justice Washington Supreme Court (Ret.)

ELITE FITNESS BELLEVUE & THE AUSTIN FOUNDATION TEAM UP FOR
TRAIN THE TRAINER - A FIGHT AGAINST JUVENILE OBESITY IN SEATTLE

The night of January 24, 2008 at Elite Fitness Training in Bellevue is one to remember. Not only were 10 Elite Fitness personal trainers and the Austin Foundation's very own, Willie Austin, put to the test for their strength and endurance, but $23,000 was raised to benefit the Austin Foundation.

Over 150 Elite Fitness clients participated in their first annual Train the Trainer. The way it worked was that clients were able to "pay back" their personal trainers by making them work out in a no-holds-barred event. And for that opportunity, they donated $50 per five-minute block of time to the Austin Foundation. Two Austin Foundation youth, Julio Moreno and Alpha Diallo were also there to lead the warm-up stretch and root the trainers on. 

Voted Best Personal Trainers for 2007 by citysearch.com, Elite Fitness Training in downtown Bellevue had a goal of raising $10,000 for the Austin Foundation. But by the end of the night, the total raised was $17,000! Since then several of their clients have also donated above and beyond the event.

The Austin Foundation would like to extend a very big thanks to Elite Fitness, including Dave Johnson, Alex Wasserman, Lacey, all their trainers and of course, their kind and generous clients! 

Click here to view a gallery of photos from the night.