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Who: All collegiate, high school, club, masters, and other interested swimming & diving teams.

What: "Hour of Power" Relay in honor of Carleton College swimmer Ted Mullin, who passed away in the fall of 2006 from sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer. Funds raised through this event support research at the University of Chicago into the causes and treatment of sarcoma in young people. When the event began in 2006, 15 teams joined together to raise team spirit, sarcoma awareness and $11,000. In 2011, the number of participating teams exploded to 160 on two continents, including 107 college and university programs, 46 high school & club teams, and seven students-abroad teams, and in 20101, these 8,000 athletes raised $63,000 for the Fund. In its first five years the Hour of Power has raised $330,000.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, 5 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Central or 5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m. Pacific

Where: Your program's Home Pool

DETAILS:

The seventh annual "Leave it in the Pool" event features an “hour-of-power” relay practice on Nov. 13 at 5 p.m. EST/4 p.m. CST or 5 p.m. MST/ 4 p.m. PST. The set is one of the Carleton College Knights’ favorites and the team felt it would be an appropriate memorial to Ted to run a “Leave it in the Pool” practice consisting of continuous relays, any stroke, all-out swimming, for an hour, with the objective of keeping all lanes in each pool on the same length.

(Click here for a description of the “Leave it in the Pool – Hour of Power” Relay Swim Set)

Swimming the "Hour of Power" simultaneously across the country on one afternoon adds to the spirit and fun of the relay. However, those teams unable to participate at the scheduled date/times are encouraged to hold a relay event whenever possible.

The participants in the event are asked to gather donations for the Ted Mullin Fund for Pediatric Sarcoma Research at the Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago. Checks should be made payable to "FJC/Ted Mullin Fund" with the team name in the memo line, and mailed to the Ted Mullin Fund, P.O. Box 437, Winnetka, IL 60093-0437. All donations made to the Ted Mullin Fund are tax deductible to the extent allowed by United States law.

We encourage participation to raise team spirit and sarcoma awareness whether or not your program is able to fund raise.

About the Ted Mullin Fund for Pediatric Sarcoma Research:

Where Does the Money Go?

Money raised acts as seed funding for the University of Chicago’s pediatric sarcoma research program. The program brings together oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and physician scientists who have a particular interest in adolescents and young adults with sarcoma. The Ted Mullin Fund has supported research into novel chemotherapy and biology agents for sarcomas, new ways to administer chemotherapy in this disease, techniques to visualize more accurately the response of tumors in the patient, the identification of high-risk sarcoma patients using novel genomics strategies, molecular techniques to personalize therapy for each patient to maximize benefit while reducing treatment-related toxicity and treatments for metastatic or resistant disease which seek to use the patient’s own immune system to attack residual tumors. Future plans at U of C include the opening of an adolescent and young adult multidisciplinary clinic focused on sarcoma and, in collaboration with other national programs, the establishment of a consortium to facilitate more rapid development and availability of new molecular and biologic therapeutics for sarcomas.

(View the University of Chicago's report on uses of the money raised for the Ted Mullin Fund here)

For more information: Contact Rick Mullin, info@TedMullinFund.org, 847-971-5003

2011 List of Registered Teams/Participants

ACC: Georgia Tech

America East: Stony Brook

Atlantic 10: Xavier

Big East: Cincinnati, Georgetown, Providence

Big Ten: Northwestern

Bluegrass Mountain: Johns Hopkins

CCC: U of New England, Roger Williams, Western New England College

CCIW: Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology

Centennial: Franklin & Marshall

Empire 8: Nazareth, Utica

GLIAC: Hillsdale

GNAC: Elms, Norwich, Regis (MA), Simmons

GSAC/PCSC: Concordia University (CA)

IIAC: Loras, Luther

Independents: Ferrum, College of Idaho, Morningside

Ivy League: Princeton

Liberty League: Skidmore, St. Lawrence, Union (NY)

Little East: Eastern Connecticut State

MAC: Lycoming

MIAA: Albion

MIAC: Augsburg, Carleton, Gustavus Adolphus, Hamline,

Macalester, Saint Benedict, St. Catherine, Saint John’s (MN),

Saint Mary’s (MN), St. Olaf, U of St. Thomas (MN)

Midwest: Beloit, Grinnell, Illinois College, Knox, Lake Forest, Lawrence U

NCAC: Wittenberg

NEAC: Wells

NESCAC: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton,

Middlebury, Trinity (CT), Tufts, Wesleyan (CT), Williams

NEWMAC: Babson, Clark (MA), MIT, Wellesley, Wheaton (MA), Worcester Polytechnic

Northwest: Lewis and Clark, Pacific Lutheran, Pacific U (OR), Puget Sound, Whitman,

Whitworth, Willamette

NSIC: Minnesota State University-Mankato, St. Cloud State

OAC: Baldwin-Wallace, Wilmington (OH)

ODAC: Randolph-Macon

ODAC/Bluegrass Mountain: Washington and Lee

PCSC: Chapman

President’s Athletic Conference: Bethany (WV), Saint Vincent, Westminster (PA)

Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Minnesota State University-Moorhead

SCAC: Colorado College

SCIAC: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Occidental, Pomona-Pitzer, U of Redlands, Whittier

Sunshine State Conference: Rollins

SUNYAC: SUNY-Cortland, SUNY-Fredonia, SUNY-New Paltz, SUNY-Oswego

UAA: Carnegie Mellon, U of Chicago, Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis

WIAC: U of Wis.-Stevens Point

Students-Abroad Teams: Cinghiali Senese (Siena, Italy); Geneva Nation (Geneva, Switzerland); IES Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain); Mighty Madrileños (Madrid, Spain); Mighty, Mighty Haggises (Edinburgh, Scotland); South Caicos Dragons of the Sea (South Caicos Is., British West Indies); Stockholm Swimmers (Stockholm, Sweden)

High School Teams: Ashland (MA); Culver Academies (Culver, IN); Glenbrook North (Northbrook, IL); Glenbrook South (Glenview, IL); Hill-Murray School (Maplewood, MN); J. S. Morton (Cicero, IL); Jasper (IN); Lake Forest (IL); Lincoln-Way North (Frankfort, IL); Lincoln-Way West (New Lenox, IL); Madison West (WI); Metea Valley (Aurora, IL); Naperville North (IL); Neuqua Valley (Naperville, IL); New Trier (Winnetka, IL); Virginia (MN); Waubonsie Valley (Aurora, IL); Westwood (MA); Wilmington (OH)

Club Teams: Adirondack Aquatic Club (Milford, MA); AGUA Masters-Asphalt Green (New York, NY); Brandeis University Swim Club (Waltham, MA); Clinton County YMCA (Wilmington, OH); Dubuque Area Swimmin’ Hurricanes (Dubuque, IA); HF Swim Club (Flossmoor, IL); Illini Men’s & Women’s Water Polo Club (Champaign, IL); Jasper Aquatic Wildcats (Jasper, IN); Knightcrawlers Masters Swim Club (Northfield, MN); Lake Forest (IL) Swim Club; Little Rhody Aquatic Club (Cumberland, RI); Marquette Swimming and Diving Club (Milwaukee, WI); Middlebury (VT) Aquatic Club; Middlebury (VT) Muffintops; NASA/Wildcat Aquatics (Evanston, IL); New Trier Swim Club (Northfield, IL); Northern Lights Swim Club (Anchorage, AK); Northfield (MN) Swim Club; Saint Croix (MN) Swim Club; Silver Streaks Swim Club (White Plains, NY); Soda Moms Water Polo Team (Lafayette, CA); Southwest Indiana Masters (Jasper, IN); Team Fuego (Berkeley, CA); Team SqueeGee (Chicago, IL); West Austin (TX) Athletic Club Masters; Yakima Aquatic Club (WA); YMCA of Dane County (Madison, WI)

"Hour of Power" Participation Facts & Figures

*estimated figures