What is the Race For Life?
It all started in 1981 when an avid 12 year old BMX racer from Michigan discovered he had Leukemia. Todd Kingsbury was his name, and like many BMXers, he had dreams of someday becoming a top pro in the sport. Unfortunately, this dreaded disease would keep Todd from fulfilling his dream.
When Todd`s friends and the American Bicycle Association learned of his diagnosis, it was decided that an organized effort should be made to help in Todd`s "Race for Life." The first ABA "Race for Life" events were formed that year, with over 130 tracks participating and raising funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® .
Ever since, the ABA has held a series of "Race for Life" events nationwide to help in the fight to find a cure for blood-related cancers. There are awards given to top fund raisers which include t-shirts, jackets and trips to the ABA Grandnationals of BMX.
Of course, the best reward of all is the good feeling of helping others with Leukemia.
Race for Life ( Double)
Saturday June 21st Double points Race for Life , sign ups 4-5:30 PM , Certificates to all,
Cost : $10 donation Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, $5 race fee.
Total cost at EPBMX only $15 . NO MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED , bring your friends to try out BMX
Sunday June 22nd Triple points Redline Qualifier , sign ups 9-10:30 AM, Awards 1-4 , Cost $30 trophy or stamps. Opens stamps only cost $20 race fee
NO MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED .. Bring your friend s have them try out BMX
Click banner to news story done at EPBMX RFL & RCQ June21-22
EPBMX Race for Life had 93 Riders-24 Motos EPBMX raised $ 930.00 from race fees
EPBMX riders/families raised $2449.50 from donations collected.
EPBMX raised a total of $3379.50 for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
EPBMX Top 3 riders collected
#1 JD Buckley
$1226.00 he received - $100 gift certificate to EPBMX FoT Bicycle X-Change
#2 Race Lee
$192.50 he received - $50.00 cash coupon for EPBMX race Fees
#3 Brandon Winkler
$175.00 he received $ 20 EPBMX concessions stand card
Also thanks to these riders/ parents of who helped raised funds for our Race For Life Will Swecker, Luke Dimmitt, Kayliegh Beshears, Lulu Maestas, Brandon Wills ,Bryson Wills, Christopher Peterie, Race Lee, Kaleb Taber, Dalton Sebor, Daithin Wycoff, Jayden Vance
Including roundtrip airline tickets, event tickets and all entry fees...
BE INVOLVEDDid you know you don't have to be an ABA member to help in the fight against Leukemia & Lymphoma? Give a ABA BMX "Race For Life" donation envelope to a friend. They can help with a great cause, be eligible for great prizes, plus they can try out the great sport of ABA BMX!
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After you have received your collection envelope for the ABA BMX “Race For Life”, you need to start collecting donations from your friends, relatives, neighbors and businesses in your community. Instruct the donors to make checks payable to the Leukemia “Race For Life”. When you go back to the track, put all the checks in the envelope but don’t seal it because the track operator will have to verify what you have collected in order for you to be eligible to compete for the ABA BMX/Intense/
THE/VSI awards that will be given away. If you need more envelopes see your track operator or drop us a line at www.ababmx.com.
2007 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ABA BMX “RACE FOR LIFE” Fund Raising AWARDS$5 $19.99 Official “Race For Life” Certificate
$20 $49.99 Official “Race For Life” Patch
$50 $249.99 Official “Race For Life” T-shirt
$250 $499.99 Official “Race For Life” Jacket
$500 and over All entry fees to the 2007 ABA Grands "FREE" (cannot be transferred)Along with the great prizes listed above, the Top Five Fund Raisers Nationwide for the ABA BMX "Race For Life" series have some awesome prizes from ABA BMX/Intense/THE/VSI on the line for 2007.
1st Place Fund Raiser– FREE trip for two to the ABA Grands, including round trip airfare, hotel, Friday Night PRO-Spectacular/N.A.G.5 Challenge event tickets and all entry fees. In addition you'll be a "Factory" INTENSE rider for the weekend, just like Factory Intense Super-stars Danny Caluag and Brandon Meadows. And you'll also receive a complete Intense BMX Bike ($399 Retail), THE Helmet, Intense Jersey, *THE Prize Pack. You'll even get to hang out with red hot Danny “Easy Money” Caluag and two-time X-Games gold medal winner, Brandon Meadows, in the Factory Intense pit area for the ABA Grands weekend.
2nd Place Fund Raiser- Intense BMX Complete Bike ($399 Retail), THE Helmet, and Intense Jersey
3rd Place Fund Raiser- THE Helmet and *THE Prize Pack
4th Place Fund Raiser- THE Helmet
5th Place Fund Raiser- *THE Prize Pack
*THE Prize pack includes Grips, Number Plate, Pads, Seat, and Bike Stand.
We hope you are as excited about this year's ABA BMX "Race For Life" Series as we are. Getting the prizes and winning races is great, but helping others is one of the finest things anyone can ever do in life. This is your opportunity, through the sport you know and love, to help people in two ways. First, through your gathering of donations for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, you will be helping fight and bring to an end a dreadful disease that affects thousands of people each year. Secondly, you can introduce BMX to your friends, family, and neighbors that may not have thought that they would ever be able to participate in competitive BMX. Their contribution will be their entry into the finest sport in the world, BMX.
To find out more about an ABA BMX "Race For Life" event near you, just click the link below.
http://www.ababmx.com/index.php?page=default/races&type=rfl
Intense BMX boasts one of the world’s highest quality BMX frames, with 12 sizes to choose from and has become the leader on and off the track. Intense BMX recently introduced a complete BMX race bicycle line. In early 2007, Intense will also launch a line of possibly the most anticipated line of BMX race frames, The Podium Series, which will revolutionize the BMX frame industry. Intense BMX is manufactured by VSI Products, of Cerritos, CA.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ® Fighting Blood-Related Cancers
Since its inception in 1949, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® has been committed to finding cures for all blood-related cancers, but has not been able to effectively portray the breadth of its mission under a banner that emphasized a focus only on leukemia. Additionally, the Society is deeply concerned with the dramatic and unexplained rise in incidence rates of lymphoma during the last half of the 20th century. So on February 1, 2000, the Society unveiled a new name and logo. The new name, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® , along with a tag line, Fighting Blood-Related Cancers, was crafted to clarify the diseases that the Society fights.
We`re the same organization with the same mission. But we want everyone with a connection to blood-related cancers - patients, physicians and supporters - to understand that we are committed to fighting all hematological malignancies, including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
The Society was further moved to implement the name change by a startling rise in lymphoma incidence rates. Statistics from the National Cancer Institute show that from the mid 70s into the 90s, lymphoma rates rose by more than 70 percent, which made it the third fastest rising cancer in the country during that period. Today 454,000 Americans have lymphoma. In 1999 alone an estimated 64,000 new cases were diagnosed. New cases of non-Hodgkin`s lymphoma are rising by 1.1 percent per year while death rates are rising by 1.8 percent each year.
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