West Jax Rotary

Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller remains The Most Decorated American Gymnast, male or female, in history. She is the only American to rank among the Top 10 All-Time gymnasts and is the only female athlete to be inducted into the US Olympics Hall of Fame – twice! (Individual in 2006 and Team in 2008)

Shannon has won an astounding 59 international and 49 national competition medals. Over half of these have been gold. She is the only US gymnast to win two World All-Around Titles. Her tally of five medals, two silver and three bronze, at the 1992 Olympics was the most medals won by a US athlete. At the 1996 Games, she led the “Magnificent Seven” to the US Women’s first ever Team Gold and for the first time for any American gymnast, she captured Gold on the balance beam.

She holds a BBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from the University of Houston and her law degree from Boston College. Shannon remains a passionate advocate for health and wellness for all ages including taking proactive measures to ensure a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Shannon recently launched ShannonMillerLifestyle.com, a website dedicated to women’s health and fitness. She also hosts a weekly call in radio show Sunday mornings on WOKV that focuses on women’s health and fitness.

Her Foundation is dedicated to fighting childhood obesity and she is currently co-chair of the Florida Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness.

In addition to her weekly radio show, television hosting and writing a series of fitness books, Shannon enjoys her most recent activity best…Mom to son Rocco, who was born in 2009.

Meeting Notes:
David Griffin was inducted as a new member, given his Red Badge of Courage and his first Rotary Bill. David said he was use to paying the bill as he has done so for many years for Griff Griffin. Now he can write two checks, his and Griff’s.

Seth Perez spoke of the December 11, 2011 Jaguars game which will be the annual Rotary Game.

Phil Voss spoke of Rotary loosing one of its own, RickTraynor, age 64, passed due to a massive heart attack while at work. Phil as all to remember him.

Hugh Blanton asked for Rotary volunteers to host our exchange student, Mark Forman from Austria. Mark is 16 years old.

Phil Risley let all know that July 8, 2011, is the Rotary Family Baseball Game for the Jacksonville Suns, Cost per person is $16.95. Phil asked that we use this as an opportunity to invite potential new members. Consider it as a Membership Solicitation.

President Frank reminded all that our Annual President’s Night will be held at the Florida Yacht Club, Wednesday Night, June 29, 2011. No Wednesday Meeting Lunch Meeting.

Marty Sack as always gave an excellent presentation of some lively and sometimes risque jokes. He also recognized lots of member birthdays and personal events.

Dr. Jim Lanier, Jr. introduced Jacksonville Jaguars Head Coach Jack Del Rio. Coach Del Rio spoke about the current NFL Lock Out and emphasized that there are only two people who know and can decide what is going to happen at the present time, the NFL Commissioner and the Representative of NFL Football Players Union. The coach and his staff had up until April 2011 carried on the clubs business as Business As Usual. The organization still had to review potential players, work on training ideas, review how the league played last season and work to make adjustments so the Jaguars can be a championship contender in the 2011-2012 season. The staff has looked at Team Readiness, Balance for the staff and players regarding the team, community and especially family. Coach Del Rio used the Rotary motto of Service Above Self. The coach did talk a little about problem players in the past. He mentioned that those players and potential problems have been weeded out and that the balance going forward would eliminate such problems in the future, that the team had purged the so call bad apples with the remaining players and future players are now and in the future will do the right things.

Coach Del Rio stated that the Jaguar Organization is Draft and Develop Organization which means they make every attempt to bring in the right kind of young player then train (develop) them to be great players. The coach stated that each person needs to come on board with the believe in “I Can Do It” attitude - they must work, training and study hard.

The coach’s goal for this year is to bring home the “Division Title”.

Rotary Visitors
Theresa Smith — Downtown
Ron Autrey — Downtown
Buck Autrey — Downtown
Ed Witt, Sr — Downtown
Macky Weaver — Deerwood.

Rotary Guests
Thompson LeMaistre — Guest of Jim Riggan
Dan Edwards — Guest of club
Jack Del Rio — Guest of club

Next Meeting - June 22, 2011
Youth Program - A recap of the past year by our Interact and EarlyAct clubs

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