Students of the Year Washington DC

Kyle D'attilio | Team Coyotes for a Cure

Exciting News!!!

Nov 30, 2019

I am excited to announce that I will be running with two other Clarksburg students for this year's Student of the Year campaign! I am currently a junior at Clarksburg High School, where I play for the Varsity football and Varsity baseball teams. I was inspired to be apart of such an amazing campaign because of many factors. The factors that helped me decide to run are:

      - I see this as an opportunity to demonstrate my work ethic and leadership skills on college applications.

      - Every 3 minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer.

      - Out of the 50 new drugs approved by the FDA to fight cancer in the last two years- LLS funded 45 of                 them.

      - 40% of all new cancer therapies where first approved to treat blood cancer.

     - AND my sister ran for SOY in 2018 and I want to rasie more than her! (She ended up raising $80k)

 

Welcome to Kyle D'attilio's SOY Fundraising Page!

Oct 10, 2019

Welcome To My Fundraising Page!

I am honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign, a seven-week initiative in which high school students from around the country are nominated to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

I am raising funds in honor of those who are currently battling or are in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote and the team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Students of the Year. As a team, our mission is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

We are changing the face of blood cancer! Will you join us?!

Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success discovering new and more effective treatments for blood cancer patients and has created a new exciting initiative focusing on treatments for pediatric patients.

  • LLS funded 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
  • Since 2000, more than 40% of the new cancer therapies approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research
  • In 2019, LLS established The LLS Children’s Initiative, a comprehensive $50 MILLION multi-year endeavor, to help children with cancer through every facet of LLS’s mission:
    • More than doubling our investment in pediatric cancer research grants
    • Expanding education and support service for children and their families
    • Advocating for and driving policies to accelerate the development of new treatments and break down barriers to care
    • Launching LLS PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia), a groundbreaking global precision medicine clinical trial in acute pediatric leukemia

And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers. They're even being tested in clinical trials for patients with a range of cancers including lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. LLS funded drugs are now being tested for patients with other non-cancerous diseases like Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.

Please join me in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, my efforts, will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.

LLS's continued advancements over the years, are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled.

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. With your donation, you’re not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!

Please visit my fundraising webpage(s) often and pass along the link to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. who might donate!  I recognize I need lots of support to reach my fundraising goal!

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere I thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org

 

 

19 Comments

  • Shannon Paciorek

    Kyle - Thank you for raising money for such an important organization! my mother has Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and I am making the donation in her honor. Best of luck to you and the rest of your teammates!

  • Marie Artim

    Good luck Kyle

  • Sadie Edmonds

    Good Luck Kyle!

  • Stacy McClelland

    Good luck Kyle!

  • Kris Stuber

    Good luck to you and your team!! So proud of you!

  • Matt Brady

    Good luck Kyle!!! Go Coyotes for a Cure!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your leadership in raising funds for such an important cause! Well done!~

  • Cheryl Neidecker

    Best of luck to you and your team Kyle! Great work!

  • Beth Bauer

    Good work, Kyle!

  • Sabelhaus Team - RE/MAX

    Keep up the great work, Kyle!

  • Chris Troffkin

    Good luck Kyle!!!

  • Paul Martin

    Thanks Kyle for doing this!!!!

  • Shannon & Porter Shifflett

    Good luck Kyle & Coyote Team!

  • Adrianne Pacheco

    Way to go Kyle - super proud of your efforts! The Pachecos

  • Megan Bisenius

    Good luck Kyle!!

  • Michelle Bosch

    So proud of all your hard work Kyle!

  • Karen Robertson

    Good luck Kyle! Best wishes from Tennessee!

  • Jim & Lynne Crim

    Good luck!

  • Kristy McGrath

    Way to go Kyle, so proud of your hard work!!

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