Kukors to speak at SYL Dinner and Auction at Emerald Downs

The See Ya Later Foundation hosts its third annual auction and dinner on Saturday at Emerald Downs in Auburn.

The See Ya Later Foundation hosts its third annual auction and dinner on Saturday at Emerald Downs in Auburn.

The events starts at 5 p.m. with dinner service at 6:30.

Guest speaker is Ariana Kukors, an Auburn Mountainview graduate and a Pac-10 champion at the University of Washington who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

Kukors, Auburn’s first Olympian since Al Rossi competed as a member of the bronze medal-winning men’s rowing team in 1952, placed fifth in the 200-meter individual medley in London. She set the world record of 2 minutes, 6.15 seconds in Rome in 2009.

Tickets are $50 per person.

Proceeds benefit the SYL Foundation, a nonprofit, faith-based and nondenominational organization designed to help families fraught by medical crises and to provide college scholarships to local youth who are making an impact in the community.

For more information, please contact event coordinator Brian Williams at 253-332-5144 or brian.williams@seeyalater.org.

To learn more about the foundation, visit www.seeyalater.org.