Wheaton Swimming & Diving Teams to Take Part in Cancer Fundraiser
NORTON, MA- The Wheaton College men's and women's swimming &
diving teams will participate in the fourth annual Hour of Power
Relay on Monday at 5:00 p.m., as the event is designed to raise
funds to support cancer research at the University of Chicago
toward the causes and treatment of pediatric sarcoma. This will be
the third straight year the Lyons take part.
The fundraiser is held in honor of Ted Mullin, a swimmer at
Minnesota-based Carleton College who died in 2006 from sarcoma, a
rare soft-tissue cancer. All Division III swimming & diving
programs are invited to participate, as 104 squads combined to
raise more than $50,000 in 2008. Pledges and donations are gathered
for the Ted Mullin Fund for Sarcoma Research at the University of
Chicago Comer Children's Hospital.
Participating teams complete a "Leave it in the Pool" practice,
which consists of continuous relays of any stroke for one full
hour. Wheaton is among eight participating New England Women's and
Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) schools, joining another 22 from
the region and nearly 130 college, high school and club teams from
around the nation.
