Hello Everyone!
In honor of Relay For Life at UVA’s TENTH anniversary
(woo-hoo!), we thought that this week it would be great to talk a little bit
about a fellow school’s Relay For Life program, as well as look at our own
goals for the future of Relay here at UVA.
Virginia Tech boasts one of the most successful Relay
programs in the country. In 2009, they were the first collegiate Relay to
surpass $500,000 raised, which is absolutely incredible! In 2011, just last
year, they raised an AMAZING $600,000+! As a three-time receiver of the American
Cancer Society’s Gordy Klatt Award, Virginia Tech’s Relay For Life serves as
the standard to which other collegiate programs can aspire to.*
However, by sharing Virginia Tech’s track record, I don’t
mean to say that UVA just has a “long way to go” in terms of our own success as
an event. Rather, I hope to encourage our own participants to go above and
beyond this year, making our 2012 Relay the BEST YET! And look, we’ve already
come so far! In UVA’s first year of hosting Relay For Life, the participants
raised only $2,420 (hey, every dollar counts!). But, within five short years, we raised over FIFTY times that amount, reaching $127,925! Just look at
what we have accomplished already, raising over $650,000! I don’t know about
you all, but our history gives me so much hope for the future success of our
own Relay program. Let's keep those numbers in our heads for
the next month as we speed away towards the big day! We are well on our way to
reaching our $100,000 goal, but there is still a ways to go!
We have less than a month left until the big night, so take
some inspiration from Virginia Tech, as well as from our own success, and make
that effort to recruit one more person this week, raise one more dollar, send
one more email. Every effort counts!
Until next week, and with Relay-Love,
Relay For Life at UVA
*Interested in learning more about Relay For Life at
Virginia Tech?
Click here: Virginia Tech Relay For Life Article
