Have you ever wanted to participate in one of our Bucket-a-Thon events?  Would you LOVE to help raise money to support athletes impacted by childhood cancer and to help make a difference?  Well now you can!!!

This March 1 through April 8^th, Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation is hosting our first ever March Madness Bucket-a-Thon event open to the public!!!   Participation is open to all ages & abilities, takes place whenever and wherever* (within the continental U.S.) you can hoop, and supports our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships provided to athletes who know what it’s like to fight childhood cancer. 

Registration is FREE and super easy!  PLUS, by participating you’ll have the opportunity to win fun prizes like our Official Bucket-a-Thon t-shirt, top fundraiser prizes, and more!

Register Here (FREE)

https://alexsarmyccf.rallyup.com/marchmadness2024

We hope you will consider joining us from the comfort of your home or home gym and participate in our first ever March Madness Bucket-a-Thon event!

Thank you in advance for your support!

It takes an army to fight childhood cancer…

                …Together we are Alex’s Army!

We will be accepting applications for the 2024 scholarships from February 1^st through March 15^th and will award scholarship recipients in April of this year.  Prior to printing the application, please be sure to thoroughly read the application guidelines found on this page to check for qualifications, important submission information, FAQs, and more. 

Guidelines

Application

More about scholarship here.

We are honored to announce Alex’s Army has awarded Collegiate scholarships to 3 beautiful and inspirational athletes who have each battled cancer: Evelyn “Evie” Cranston, Faith McKinney and Tara Sankner each received a $3,000 scholarship towards their college expenses.

About the Scholarship Recipients:

Evelyn Cranston is a St. John’s College HS student and soccer player who was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer at the age of 14.

Evie is a light to be around and has a way of bringing out the best in others. While she didn’t see her diagnosis as a blessing at the time, Evie says this about her diagnosis, “In a way, I have become grateful for my experience with cancer – it has helped me evolve into the person I am today and will continue to be a part of how I grow into the person I want to be.”

Faith McKinney was diagnosed with Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans (DFSP) which is a very raretype of soft tissue sarcoma at the age of 12.

Faith is a gymnast at Battlefield HS where she also maintains a 4.3 GPA. Five years prior to her own diagnosis, Faith had starting participating and volunteering in a gymnastics fundraiser called “Flip for the Fight”. She loved helping others any way she could and found that participating in her favorite sport to support charity was a win-win! When Faith was diagnosed fighting cancer became even more personal and she saw first-hand what other kids and teens fighting cancer go through. “This situation continues to challenge my mental toughness but also strengthens my ability to deal with adversity and address it with a positive attitude.”

Tara Sankner is a Chantilly HS softball player. Tara was diagnosed with an Astrocytoma Grade 2 Brain Tumor at the age of 8.

Tara spent a lot of her childhood in and out of hospitals. “I didn’t have many sleepovers as “normal” kids because I was in and out of the hospital throughout my childhood. However I was always comforted by a group of other cancer patients facing similar circumstances where our futures were often a mystery. Faced with the uncertainty of life, I decided at an early age that I was going to not only finish High School and be the first in my family to attend college, but I am going to embrace life and help others through life in law enforcement or social services.” Tara will graduate from Chantilly HS this spring and has committed to Old Dominion University in the fall with a major in Criminology.

Enrollment for the Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships is officially open!

We will be accepting applications for the 2023 scholarships from February 1^st through March 15^th and will award scholarship recipients in April of this year.  Prior to printing the application, please be sure to thoroughly read the application guidelines found on this page to check for qualifications, important submission information, FAQs, and more. 

Guidelines

Application

More about scholarship here.

Drum roll or better yet STADIUM noise please…

Please join us in wishing a HUGE congratulations to all of our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarship Recipients for 2022:

Caoilinn McLane (Aldie, VA)
Penelope Miller (Crofton, MD)
PJ Fuentes (San Jose, CA)
Mia Gatanaga (Salinas, CA)
Emily Knisley (Vienna, VA)
Bo Clark (Gig Harbor, WA)
Haley Watkins (San Leandro, CA)
Martin Souza (Culpeper, VA)

Reading through the essays and recommendation letters of all the applicants was so touching and inspirational. We cannot wait to share the stories for all of the above scholarship recipients over the coming month. Their strength, determination, love for their respective sports and life itself are so powerful, we are honored to be able to be a small part of each of their journeys.

This year we were able to award a whopping total of $12,000 in this years scholarships! It is thanks to the support of our community but also especially to participants of our Bucket-a-Thon events that we are able to offer scholarships to athletes impacted by a childhood cancer diagnosis.

Thank you to all who support our mission and who continue to be a part of Alex’s Army so that together we can make a difference in the lives of children (and athletes) whos lives are forever changed by a childhood cancer diagnosis!

Enrollment for the Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships is officially open!

We will be accepting applications for the 2022 scholarships from February 1^st through March 15^th and will award scholarship recipients in April of this year.  Prior to printing the application, please be sure to thoroughly read the application guidelines found on this page to check for qualifications, important submission information, FAQs, and more. 

Guidelines

Application

More about scholarship here.