Team EBI is an athletic team comprised of individuals who will participate in scheduled events throughout the country to help bring awareness to the foundation and their causes in support of children with cancer.  Team EBI members will compete in amateur events such as triathlons, cycling events, road races, and potentially extreme challenge races or experimental expeditions.  All of the events Team EBI enters will be open to anyone who wants to race- anyone!  The team has coaches to assist those people interested in racing, but aren’t sure how to get ready or train properly.

Senior VP of Everitt Boles Intl. and Team EBI Leader, Chris Maume- “I have been involved in triathlons and cycling for many years.  I have recently come back to the sport of triathlon just recently after several years away from the sport and have been thinking of ways to do more with my time and experience than just race for myself.  Recently, at a triathlon in Atlanta, while anxiously awaiting the start of the race in 54 degree weather I witnessed something that transformed my racing into something more important.  A 6 year old girl was prepared to sing the national anthem to all of the participants.  As she took the microphone she wanted to make a dedication- “I want to dedicate this to my little sister who just passed away from cancer.”  I don’t think I have ever heard such a beautiful version of the national anthem and after that my mind was made up as to what I was going to do with my efforts in racing.

Jim and Amy Jo Osborne have been friends of mine for a few years and they came to mind first when I decided what my focus would be with charitable causes.  Jim and Amy Jo founded the Austin Hatcher Foundation after their own personal experience with a child with cancer.  Knowing both Jim and Amy Jo I am assured their foundation is the best one for us to partner with.  I am excited about our partnership and I look forward to working with people who want to race with us!  The Austin Hatcher Foundation is the official charity of the American Le Mans Series so we are hoping that many of the ALMS participants will become active in racing with us as well to raise money for their charity.”

http://www.hatcherfoundation.org/ Please visit the Austin Hatcher Foundation’s website for information about the foundation and their story.  If you have an interest in participating as an athlete or other contributor please contact Chris Maume using the information below. An official Press Release with additional information and a schedule of events will follow nationally in the next couple of weeks.

January 26, 2010:  On Friday, February 5th, the Austin Hatcher Foundation will host “Cellarbration,” a blind wine tasting competition, to raise funds for Chattanooga’s Hatch’s house of hope.  The event, sponsored by Athens Distibuting, Hennen’s and The Walden Club will take place at The Walden Club.  Teams of one or two persons pay a $25 per person entry fee and bring 3 bottles of the same red wine to enter into the contest.  2 of the team’s bottles are covered and numbered for the blind tasting, while each team’s the 3rd bottle will be reserved and displayed in the “cellar.”
Teams will be competing against each other for the most popular wine, voted on by all entered teams.  The team with the most popular wine of the night will go home with the “cellar” which will consist of $500 worth of wine donated by Athens Distributing as well as the 3rd bottle of every entered team.
This is going to be a fun evening filled with wine, hors devours, Gigi’s cupcake minis and a little friendly competition.  Cellarbration will take place from 7 -10, with voting beginning at 8:45.  For more information, or to reserve your tickets, go to www.hatcherfoundation.org/cellarbration or email jenny@hatcherfoundation.org.

The 2010 HOT ROD Power Tour®, presented by GM Performance Division, has named the Austin Hatcher Foundation for pediatric cancer® the official charity of the 2010 tour. The 7-day, 7-city tour will rev up on June 5th, 2010 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, IA, and make its way through Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.

New to the Power Tour® for 2010 is the Austin Hatcher Foundation’s daily “Muscle Car” Pinewood Derby Races. Each day of the tour, participants and fans will have the chance to build and race customized pinewood cars in single heat eliminations, competing for daily prizes. Daily winners will compete for the grand prize at the last stop of the Tour. Prizes will be announced closer to the event. The cars, sold in advance online for $25, and skins for $12, will be mailed to purchasers starting February 1, 2010 to allow time for customizing the cars before the competition. Cars purchased after May 1, 2010 will be available for pick up during the tour. Limited quantities of cars will also be available for purchase at all of the stops along the tour.

The Austin Hatcher Foundation will participate in each day of the tour, traveling from city to city. Foundation staff will meet and greet Power Tour® participants and fans each day at their mobile racetrack, where they will inspect pinewood cars prior to racing and hold the races. Information about pediatric cancer and the Austin Hatcher Foundation, as well as its newly opened cancer-care center Hatch’s house of hope, will also be onsite.

Proceeds from the sales of the Pinewood “Muscle Car” will benefit the Austin Hatcher Foundation for pediatric cancer®. “We hope that this large community of car lovers will enjoy customizing and racing the pine cars during their week long tour,” said Jim Osborn, Co-Founder of The Austin Hatcher Foundation. “We are fortunate that HOT ROD Magazine® is bringing us on board with such an amazing event and giving us the opportunity to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer.”

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December 21, 2009:  The Austin Hatcher Foundation’s one-of-a-kind, hand-carved Michelin tire is now on display, along with the rear wheel from the 2007 American Le Mans Series GT1 Championship Corvette, at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.  This piece of motorsports history was part of the General Motors display at the 2009 SEMA show and will remain at the museum until mid-January, and will be auctioned later in the year to raise monies for children and families affected by pediatric cancer.

During the 2009 American Le Mans Series Petite Le Mans, drivers from Corvette Racing’s Championship team, Austin Hatcher Foundation guests, and celebrities had the rare opportunity to help carve this unique tread onto
the Michelin tire, mounted on a BBS wheel at the American Le Mans Series/Michelin/Corvette Racing “Tire Groove” Event.  The tread, which showcases the logos of Michelin, Corvette Racing, the American Le Mans
Series, the Austin Hatcher Foundation and the Foundation’s Hatch’s house of hope, made its transformation over the course of the weekend, with many people getting a chance to carve this piece of history.  The Corvette Racing rear wheel was provided by Pratt Miller/Corvette Racing and was on the #4 GT1 Corvette during every one of the eleven races the car won during the 2007 American Le Mans Series.

Participating drivers from the Championship Corvette Team, which boasts six 24 Hours of Le Mans class wins, as well as 8 ALMS GT1 Manufacturers Championships, 8 ALMS GT1 Team Championships and 7 ALMS GT1 Drivers Championships, included Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Johnny O’Connell from the Compuware Corvette C6.R No. 3 and Olivier Beretta, Marcel Fassler and Oliver Gavin from the Compuware Corvette C6.R No. 4 car.  Also taking the time out to make his mark on the tire was Corvette Racing Program Manager and well known Corvette icon, Doug Fehan.

December 1, 2009: The Chattanooga location of The Chop House is donating meals to families that are guests of Hatch’s House of Hope, a pediatric cancer, family-oriented facility recently opened in Chattanooga by the Austin Hatcher Foundation. In the spirit of Hatch’s goal of keeping the family unit whole while dealing with the effects of pediatric cancer, The Chop House will be providing 4 families each month with a “date night” for the parents. Both Hatch’s and The Chop House hope that by allowing parents to have a night out together while enjoying a good meal, that they will get some much needed time to themselves. “Any chance that these parents can have to steal a few normal moments away together is a chance for these parents to reconnect with each other and the reality they used to know,” said Amy Jo Osborn, President of the Austin Hatcher Foundation. “We are fortunate to have the support of The Chop House.”