2022 Tournament
6TH ANNUAL
CRAWFORD CHARITY
GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Crawford Charity Golf Tournament was back in the Bay Area for a second time, with a return to TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, on Friday, August 5, 2022. We were proud to have the Giants, 49ers and Warriors among our sponsors again, and a full field of 144 golfers.
2022 Tournament Contest Winners
Low Gross Team: Jack Bair, Lisa Pantages, Xavier Schlough, Tess Oliphant
Low Net Team: Stephen Cuddy, Scott Klingbeil, Rich Murray, Rick Frazier
Long Drive- Hole #9: Liam Maley
Long Drive- Hole #14: George Pieper
Closest To Pin #3: Darren Baca
Closet To Pin #11: Paul Sallaberry
Putting: Ben Garner
Jack Bair, Lisa Pantages, Xavier Schlough, Tess Oliphant
Stephen Cuddy, Scott Klingbeil, Rich Murray, Rick Frazier
Proceeds Funded Research Facilitated by Augie's Quest to Cure ALS
For the fourth consecutive year the Crawford Charity Golf Tournament raised funding for research to cure ALS. The 2022 event raised over $226,000 to fund Augie’s Quest to Cure ALS Translational Research Center at the ALS Therapy Development Institute (TDI). Augie’s Quest issued a grant to ALS TDI in honor of the Crawford Charity Golf Tournament in the full amount of the revenue received- no overhead was taken from the amount raised– all funds will go toward research and to develop new, more powerful drug discovery platforms and facilitate more effective drug development for ALS.
We were pleased to welcome several special guests to the 2022 tournament, including pALS Osiel Mendoza, Corey Reich, Nancy Sallaberry, and Chris Mavraedis. Additionally, we were grateful to Rick Winters and Osiel Mendoza, who were the featured speakers at the post-golf banquet.
Rick Winters, a former Navy SEAL and SWAT team leader, faced a very different and emotionally-taxing challenge when former 49er Super Bowl champion and close friend Dwight Clark asked him to be his caregiver as Dwight battled ALS. Rick introduced Osiel Mendoza, our other featured speaker at the 2022 event; Rick met Osiel shortly after his ALS diagnosis when he helped facilitate a dinner meeting with Dwight.
Osiel Mendoza was diagnosed with ALS in October 2016 at the age of 21. At the time he was finishing college at the University of Oregon, getting engaged, and creating goals, dreams and aspirations for his future. ALS interrupted those goals and dreams, and changed life for Osiel. He shared his story, not in search of pity, but to talk about his pursuit for a future without ALS.
Osiel is a member of the Lou Gehrig Day Committee that successfully lobbied MLB to initiate Lou Gehrig Day in 2021, now an annual event raising ALS awareness and fundraising. He is an amazingly positive ALS warrior and advocate, and we were fortunate to have him as a special guest and speaker.
Other special guests at the 2022 event included:
Nancy Sallaberry was a busy mother of three boys (Marc, Luc and Dan), a champion tennis player, active in her community, and never one to be idle with so much to be done and limited hours in the day. Then she was diagnosed with ALS in 2015. As with everyone that is stricken with ALS, the debilitating effects of the disease over time changed life. As the progression of the disease changed her once busy life to one of endless routine and therapies in order to function on a daily basis, Nancy remained grateful to Paul and her sons. ago Augie’s Quest posted an article by Nancy, in which she described how her husband Paul, and her three sons made sure that she continued to make their cherished annual one-week trip to the Trinity Alps. “They paid attention, and they made anything that was difficult for me easier by just lending a kind hand.”
Corey Reich was diagnosed with ALS in July 2007 at the age of 21, but he had shown symptoms for several years prior. After his diagnosis, he returned to Middlebury College and graduated with honors in May 2008. Corey moved home to Piedmont, CA after his graduation and has been the Assistant Coach for the Piedmont High School Men's and Women's Varsity Tennis Teams ever since.
Corey’s mother Wendy and sister Clare joined him as our guests at the 2022 event. He and his family are committed to raising funds for ALS TDI. Clare, has worked for ALS TDI since graduating from college in 2011, and is currently the Director of Fundraising and Operations Systems. Wendy, is Corey’s primary caregiver. With the support of their family, friends, and community, the Corey Reich Fund has raised over $11.5 million for ALS TDI.
Hayden Poole, is the son of 12-year major league left-handed reliever and former Giant, Jim Poole. Jim was diagnosed with ALS last year, and has been actively working with multiple organizations as an ALS advocate. Unable to travel across country from his home in the Atlanta area, Jim was well-represented at the 2022 tournament by Hayden, a former D1 college golfer.
Chris “Mavo” Mavraedis is a longtime Giants fan and season-ticket holder who moved across the street from AT&T (now Oracle) Park to be near the action. In 2009 Chris was diagnosed with ALS, which has robbed him of more function and autonomy each passing year. In the strangest descriptive irony, Chris, like Corey, is the “lucky among the extremely unlucky,“ having lived with ALS for 13 years (well beyond the average life expectancy of 2 to 5 years). Chris took to writing as a means of coping with ALS and the loss of his voice. Drawing on his lifetime love of the Giants and baseball, Chris authored his first book, Falling in Love With Baseball. Chris and his wife Liz were on hand selling copies of the book, and donated proceeds to Augie’s Quest to fund research.
