About Us 2005-2008

During the past 7 years, I've completed 17 events including century rides, marathons, and triathlons while raising over $40,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through TNT. And, it was all made possible by people like you! THANK YOU!!!

This spring, as an assistant coach for the cycling team, I will help to enable our WPA/WVA teams to achieve their goal of riding the distance while raising funds for such a great cause.

Early this summer I’ll be fundraising and competing as a member of a TNT in the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon, and personally raising funds to help the fight against blood-related cancers as I compete in the Musselman Half IronMan. My goal is to raise over $15,000 during the first half of this calendar year. This challenges me to raise over $50 for every mile that I swim, bike, and run during these events!

I'll be out there through the rest of this winter and spring putting in the miles in the water, on the bike and on my legs, but I need your help with the fundraising!

All of us in Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. Although my mom is the reason that I became involved with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, I'm completing these events in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society's mission. You can do so on-line by using the “Make a Contribution” area in the upper left of this web page and clicking on the “DONATE NOW” button.

Your donations will be put to great use:

$1,000 Will help The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fund a researcher to find a cure.

$500 Will provide patient aid to a person with leukemia or a related cancer for a year.

$100 Will provide a patient with transportation cost associated with traveling from home to the cancer center.

$75 Will provide bone morrow typing for a family member of a patient with leukemia.

$50 Will register one person to be a bone marrow donor.

$25 Will pay for the cost of a patient's chemotherapy drug prescription co-pay.

$ Any donation will help continue the research needed to find a cure.

I hope you'll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress (NOTE:  Check out the scale up at the top of my web page). Thank YOU for your support!

Why do this? Because I've been inspired by so many people for various reasons. I'll start with Don. Participating in 17 of these events and volunteering as a Mentor is pretty inspiring! He does this in honor of his mom. She'll soon be celebrating the 7th anniversary of her bone marrow transplant and doing well thanks to the generosity of donors like you!

I've had the privilege of attending a few TNT events as Don's guest and at each one you learn of a new patient. Each story brings you to tears and makes you realize that whatever you may think is difficult in your own life pales in comparison to what they are doing... fighting and praying for their health & their lives. People like Amy Katz, a fifteen year-old girl (the age of my own daughter) who has been waiting since 2003 to find a matching donor; or my step brother who is “Daddy” to two little girls and just learned of his diagnosis.

I think you get the point. These are the reasons I'm asking you to help! Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society's mission. I will be cycling 100 miles around Lake Tahoe in early June with a goal to raise $55 for each mile I ride! I hope you will help.