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, which now includes dry-land teams as well, has grown from 15 teams in its first year to well over 100 teams and thousands of athletes across the nation and the world in recent years. Participating swim teams engage in continuous relays of any stroke for a full hour of all-out swimming. Dry-land teams engage in their particular sport non-stop for a full hour.
In the event's first 15 years, participating teams have raised over $925,000 for the Ted Mullin Fund to support research at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital into the causes and treatment of sarcoma and other rare pediatric cancers. From all sources, the Ted Mullin Fund has now raised more than $1.5 million.
The funds have been used for a variety of projects that evaluate the genetic basis of sarcomas, the identification of novel markers of disease diagnosis or progression, and the development of new small molecule and cell therapies for resistant disease. It has also supported the addition of sarcoma to an international pediatric clinical cancer data base to facilitate research. Each summer, the University also hosts Ted Mullin Fund scholars, offering four Hour of Power collegiate participants an opportunity to advance their interest in science and cancer biology by spending 10 weeks in a laboratory under the mentorship of a pediatric cancer physician/researcher within the Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago Medicine.
As of November 9, 2021, 109 teams including an estimated 5,000 athletes have registered for the 2021-22 Ted Mullin Hour of Power Relay. Registration is still underway and more teams are expected to take part.
Interested collegiate, high school and club teams are invited to register for the 2021-22 Hour of Power and find more information at http://go.carleton.edu/HourOfPower
You can also contact Carleton College head coach Andy Clark at aclark@carleton.edu or Rick Mullin at rmullin@tedmullinfund.org.
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