Swimming & Diving Leaves it in the Pool for the "Hour of Power" Relay

BOSTON, Mass. - The Simmons College women's swimming & diving team joined thousands of student-athletes from collegiate, high school, and club teams across the nation and abroad to celebrate the 12th Annual Ted Mullin
Posted: Nov 13, 2018

BOSTON, Mass. - The Simmons College women's swimming & diving team joined thousands of student-athletes from collegiate, high school, and club teams across the nation and abroad to celebrate the 12th Annual Ted Mullin "Leave it in the Pool" Hour of Power Relay for Sarcoma Research, sponsored by Carleton College swimming and diving teams. 

The Sharks gave support this morning to the cause for the 11th straight year to join an estimated 8,600 other student-athletes throughout the nation.

The Hour of Power event honors those who are fighting or have succumbed to cancer, including former Carleton swimmer Edward H. "Ted" Mullin, who passed away from synovial sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in September 2006.  The annual swim relay has grown from 15 teams in its first year to over 166 teams and has raised over $738,000 to support research at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital.

Participating swim teams engage in continuous relays of any stroke for a full hour of all-out swimming with the objective of keeping all relays in each lane on the same length. Simultaneously swimming the "Hour of Power" across time zones adds to the spirit and fun of the relay, but teams unable to participate at the scheduled date/times are encouraged to hold a relay event whenever possible.

Money raised acts as seed funding for the University of Chicago Medicine's (UCM) pediatric cancer research program. The Ted Mullin Fund has supported research into novel chemotherapy/biology agents, new ways to administer chemotherapy, techniques to visualize more accurately the tumor response in the patient, novel genomics strategies to identify high-risk sarcoma patients, molecular techniques to personalize therapy to maximize benefit while reducing treatment-related toxicity, and treatments for metastatic or resistant disease that use the patient's own immune system to attack residual tumors. Each summer, the UCM hosts Ted Mullin Fund Scholars in pediatric  cancer laboratories, giving collegiate Ted Mullin "Hour of Power" participants an opportunity to advance their interest in science and
cancer biology. With intial seed mony from the Ted Mullin Fund, UCM is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program. The Fund also supports the UCM comprehensive Pediatric Cancer Data Commons that will collect standardized data from as many pediatric cancer patients as possible in one central repository and share it openly with the entire research community.

Donors should make checks payable to "FJC/ Ted Mullin Fund FSP" with the team name in the memo line, and mailed to the Ted Mullin Fund, P.O. Box 437, Winnetka, Illinois 60093-0437. All donations made to the Ted Mullin Fund at FJC are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by United States law. Donations may also be made online at www.tedmullinfund.org.

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