SWIMMING COMES TOGETHER TO FIGHT SARCOMA

Aurora, New York – On Thursday night, the Wells College men's and women's swim team's  joined 68 other colleges across America in the "Hour of Power Relay" in memorial of Carleton College swimmer Ted Mullin who died of sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, three years ago. All college's involved simultaneously started the relay at the same time on Thursday. Last year's relay featured 53 colleges and raised over $43,000 for sarcoma research.  

Shirts and swim caps with "Cancer Sucks" written on them are sold to raise funds for research and were worn by Wells. The relay is a "leave it in the pool" style of practice, which features continuous relays of any stroke, for one hour, with the objective of keeping each relay in the same length of pool. It is an exhausting relay that helps to bring teams together for the fight against sarcoma.

Annually in the United States 12,000 new cases of sarcoma are reported with 55 percent of the cases occurring between the ages of 15-29 year olds; the fifth most common cancer in that age group. Sarcoma is cancer that comes in the form of malignant tumors of the musculoskeletal system: soft tissues, bones, and joints. University of Chicago

Funds raised for the event are donated to the University of Chicago pediatric sarcoma research program. For more information on the "Hour of Power Relay" please visit http://go.carleton.edu/HourOfPower.