2013 Registration and Information:

• 2013 - Event Sign-up Form (registration opens August 1)
• 2013 - Hour of Power Flyer (pdf)
• 2012 - List of Registered Teams
• Watch the new "Hour of Power" video at TedMullinFund.org.
• Cancer Sucks™ Merchandise Order Form

Past Events:

• Photo Archive
  
• Participating Teams
• Participation Facts and Figures

DONATE at TedMullinFund.org

Quick Facts

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 2012, the number of participating teams exploded to 171 and in 2012, these 8,300 athletes raised and all-time high if $80,000 for the Fund. In its first seven years the Hour of Power has raised over $410,000.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, 5 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Central or 5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m. Pacific (or on a date or time convenient to your program)

Where: Your program's Home Pool

Details

The eighth annual "Leave it in the Pool" event features an “hour-of-power” relay practice on Nov. 12 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 University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital. 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. Donations may also be made online. 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?

Funds raised act 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. At the University of Chicago the Ted Mullin Fund supports research into novel chemotherapy and biology agents for sarcomas, new ways to administer chemotherapy in this disease, techniques to visualize the response of tumors in the patient more accurately, the identification of high risk sarcoma patients using novel genomics strategies, the personalizing of therapy for each person diagnosed with sarcoma 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. The University of Chicago opened an adolescent and young adult multidisciplinary clinic focused on sarcoma in August 2012. Future plans include, in collaboration with other national programs, the development 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.

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

Participation Facts & Figures

*estimated figures