Goucher Cross Country To Lace Up For Pediatric Cancer With Go-Pher The Goal Twilight Meet; Event Moved To Friday

BALTIMORE, Md. – The Goucher College cross country team will host the Go-Pher The Goal Twilight Meet on Friday with run times scheduled for 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (NOTE: Event was moved to Friday due to weather scheduled to hit the area on Wednesday.) The Gophers have joined forces with Go 4 The Goal organization to raise awareness and collect donations for pediatric cancer.

Goucher runners will wear gold shoelaces for the event, while Lancaster Bible, Alvernia, Dickinson and Stevenson will also don the gold shoelaces for the event to help raise awareness. A donation table will be available with all the proceeds going to Go 4 The Goal.

In addition, each team purchased the gold shoelaces for the event and each pair purchased will have $4 donated to the organization.

Although many colors were considered, gold was agreed upon as the ideal choice for childhood cancer awareness because gold is a precious metal, and is therefore the perfect color to reflect the most precious thing in our lives—our children. September is pediatric cancer awareness month.

About Go 4 The Goal
Our unwavering mission is to improve the lives of children battling cancer by providing financial support, developing and implementing unique hospital programs, funding innovative research, and granting personal wishes. Through our firsthand experience with pediatric cancer and our medical background, Go4theGoal provides the best practices to patients, their families, and the hospitals and staff that care for them.

Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer® started in 2011 in answer to requests from youth soccer teams in New Jersey that wanted to show their commitment to the fight against pediatric cancer. Today, teams across the country representing every sport from youth to professional have Laced Up in Go4theGoal's GOLD laces.

Go4theGoal was founded in 2006 only weeks after Richard Stefanacci was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. After a yearlong battle, Richard lost his fight with cancer just a few months shy of his 15th birthday.

Though Richard lost his battle, Go4theGoal's determination to continue our mission remained and was only strengthened when his cousin Blake was diagnosed with another rare cancer, Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, on March 11, 2010. Blake bravely fought her cancer and is now a 10-year survivor enjoying all the normal thrills of being a teenage girl!