Video: Touchdowns Against Cancer 2019 Campaign aims to raise awareness and money to fight childhood cancer.
Touchdowns Against Cancer leader
Chopticon's (Morganza, Md.) push for pledges during Rally Week is holding up. But there is still work to be done in the campaign to fight childhood cancer and raise awareness.
Chopticon has raised total of $5,987 and is faring well on the field as well with a 2-1 record. The Braves added over $1,500 to their national-best total from a week ago.
"We definitely did it on our end in the fundraising," Chopticon head coach Anthony Lisanti said last week of raising money to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital fight childhood cancer. "Now we have to do our work in putting it in the end zone."
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MaxPreps and PledgeIt.org have joined forces to encourage high school football programs across the country to not only raise money for St. Jude, but to raise awareness for childhood cancer. Teams and their communities can participate in Touchdowns Against Cancer by pledging a one-time donation or a dollar amount for every touchdown their favorite football team scores in September.
Should Chopticon hold onto the top spot through one more weekend, it would become the first school in four years of Touchdowns Against Cancer to win a second team title.
Individually,
Connor Heffler of St. Augustine has raised $2,898 to lead the rest of the field heading into the final weekend of September.
P.J. O'Toole of
Smithson Valley (Spring Branch, Texas) has raised $1,665 while Chopticon's
Anthony Inscoe and
Tyson Gregory sit third and fourth after raising $1,075 and $915, respectively.
"My great grandmother's favorite charity was St. Jude," Gregory said last week. "So when she passed away, my family kind of kept it going. Everybody started doing it. They'll all donate to a good thing."
Wakeland (Frisco, Texas) has put 12 touchdowns on the scoreboard through three weeks and raised $4,090 for St. Jude's while Smithson Valley and
Lone Peak (Gallatin Gateway, Mont.) are battling it out for fourth with $4,040 and $3,993 raised, respectively.
As of Tuesday evening, high school football programs across the nation have scored 1,253 touchdowns and drawn 904 pledges from donors, raising $90,397 for the 2019 campaign.
There are several ways to get involved with the Touchdowns Against Cancer campaign:
- Simply, pledge to your team.
- Join as a captain. Anyone can become a captain of their team's Touchdowns Against Cancer campaign. As the captain, you will play the key role in making a difference in your community. Captains are in charge of rallying support for the campaign and will receive regular communications from Touchdowns Against Cancer about promoting your campaign.
- Get involved as a student. As a student or student-athlete, you have an incredible opportunity to support Touchdowns Against Cancer. You can create your personal fundraising profile on your team's page and raise money for every TD your team scores. You'll receive recognition on your team's Fundraiser Leaderboard every time someone pledges or donates!
