LIVE UNCOMMON presents $3,875 in fundraising proceeds to the Bates-Jensen Wound Reach Foundation today at noon Trinity Medical Center in Bettendorf, Iowa. Bates-Wound Reach Foundation is a beneficiary of the 2012 LIVE UNCOMMON Race Team, a result of being selected as LIVE UNCOMMON 2012 Race Series Event #6 - the OUCH! 5K / 9K / Half Marathon - held on the Trinity Medical Center campus in Bettendorf last August.

The 2012 LIVE UNCOMMON Race Team is comprised of individuals from Iowa and Illinois who ran in an raised awareness and funds for the seven charities behind the seven LU Race Series Events, and are represented at today's presentation by LIVE UNCOMMON Race Teammates: Phil Pancrazio of Silvis, Illinois and Anna Raya of Moline, Illinois. Also presenting are representatives from Pleasant Valley Girls Cross Country - senior Molly Morris and Coach Jane Wheeler, and from Bettendorf High School Girils Cross Country - senior Anna Peer and Coach Erin Flynn. Both PV Girls Cross Country and Bettendorf Girls Cross Country serve as LIVE UNCOMMON Charter Teams, and participated in the OUCH! event in August, raising awareness and funds for the Bates-Wound Reach Foundation. Molly Morris is a former patient of the Wound Care Center.  All proceeds from the OUCH! Race in August benefit the local Wound Care Center.

The check will be presented by LIVE UNCOMMON president and co-founder Michelle Russell to Dr. Greg Bohn, Trinity Surgical Partners Iowa and Vice President of the Bates-Jensen Wound Reach Foundation. Trinity Iowa Health System serves as LIVE UNCOMMON's Medical Crew.

LIVE UNCOMMON congratulates six area students who were awarded $10,000 in scholarships underwritten by LIVE UNCOMMON Team Doctors - ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS.

Scholarship Winners include :

  • ANNA FRY, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis, Minnesota - $3,000 Scholarship;
  • DANA EWAN, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - $1,500 Scholarship;
  • AARON PEROUTKA, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa - $1,500 Scholarship;
  • JOE MUELLER, Notre Dame University, North Bend, Indiana - $500 Scholarship.
  • JAKE HAYLES - $3,000 Scholarship is currently a sophomore at Bettendorf High School; and
  • ALI OPPEL - $500 Scholarship is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School.

Both JAKE's and ALI's scholarships awarded by ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS will be issued to their colleges of choice at time of
enrollment.

The $10,000 ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS Scholarships were awarded to the top 3 Male and Female finishers competing in the LIVE UNCOMMON Adventure Race held on the RUSSELL CONSTRUCTION campus in Davenport.