Thank you as always to all who took part in our 7th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament! We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day in July to play 18 holes fundraising to support our mission. Thank you to our 2022 Tournament Sponsor Chick-fil-A and to all our sponsors who supported this years event and to all who continue to support our mission every year! Thank you to Piedmont Golf Club for hosting a wonderful event this year and to all our amazing volunteers who spent the day making the tournament a success once again! Please enjoy pictures from this years’ event – stay tuned for information about our 2023 Tournament!
In 2019 Alex’s Army held our first ever Couples Retreat. Alex’s mom & dad know firsthand the hardships that a marriage can go through when you have a child with a medical condition and they feel blessed to be able to provide an opportunity for other moms & dads to have a space to take time for each other. This event was formed to provide an opportunity for couples to come alongside other couples who know these challenges and also to provide a weekend away for reconnection, rest, and of course a little pampering! The weekend for couples includes a Couples Connect session which is an opportunity for the couples to meet and join in fellowship with each other, followed by a nice dinner and social time. There is ample free time also where couples have the opportunity to be pampered with a couples massage, take walks around the beautiful and tranquil paths of Poplar Springs Manor, spend time relaxing by the pool, and of course overnight accommodations as the Poplar Springs Inn.
Alex’s Army provides this event FREE for our moms & dads thanks to our generous donors and supporters! While we were unable to host this event in 2020-2021 due to COVID, we believe in the need for this event and it is our hope to be able to host this event annually as long as we are able.
If you’d like to make a donation to specifically support of our Couples Retreat events, please use the below donation link to do so. The cost of the weekend retreat for one couple is $400, a donation of that amount will sponsor a couple to attend OR a donation of any amount helps! All donations are greatly appreciated and will be allocated towards the continuation of providing this event for our families.
In
2022 we hosted an intimate group of 5 total couples, but wonderful all
the same. Together the couples who were able come shared time to
re-connect, spend time with other parents who know the marital
challenges that come along with having a child who has had to fight
cancer. The weekend was such a blessing to all!
Special thank you to Bernadette & Kevin, Connor’s mom and dad who helped make our 2022 retreat amazing! To our dynamic duo of Alex’s Army Photographers – Raishad & Hollie – for once again capturing beautiful pics for our couples to take home and treasure. Thank you to Jennifer Goeller, Lily’s mama, at Cedar Lake Farm for donating the super sweet honey for our couples welcome baskets and to Lisa, Owner/Instructor at Yoga Shala (https://www.yogashala.life) for donating her time to lead a couples Yoga session Sunday morning! Thank you to Dr Suzanne Nixon at Integrative Counseling & Relationship Therapy, Inc. for her time in sharing some of her expertise in relationship counseling and to the always beautiful Poplar Springs Inn and Spa for helping us host a wonderful event yet again!
On Sunday, May 15th, our Foundation attempted 1 more time to break an Official Guinness World Records title as part of our Childhood Cancer Awareness & Support event and wow – what a day it was!
While unfortunately, we did NOT break the Official Guinness World Record for Most people performing push-ups Sunday…we did something very special and I believe I can speak for all who were a part of it…they will not soon forget the day.
Once again, we came close with roughly 1,100 people in attendance – we just were not close enough to break that darn record. It would be easy to get discouraged as really getting 2,000 people together for an actual Guinness World Record attempt honoring families impacted by childhood
cancers and the honored heroes of our community – should not be that hard. But when you have the opportunity to be part of an event like this, when we have the opportunity to host an event like this – it’s truly not about the record at all. It’s so much more. Like some have said, breaking the record would have been icing on the cake – but the
cake was pretty darn good!
The skies opened up and the sun shone brightly down all day so that the flyover from our friends the Glory Hounds could happen not just once but several times – one of which created the shape of a heart over all of the honored families, our honored heroes, and all in attendance!
We had over 20 families participate from our area join us both in the ceremony and others amongst the crowd on the field who were celebrated and honored by all who were there.
We filled our last minute goal for Stewards which was a gift as that alone seemed to be an uphill battle that came in the last week of preparations for the event! Thank you to Park Valley Church and all who came to join us at the last minute to fill this need! You are truly amazing and we are so thankful.
The Tug-of-War teams from Battlefield (aka Champions of the Field????), Gainesville, Brentsville, and Patriot all really had a blast and we had a blast watching and cheering them all along! Thank you again to our friends at Sweet Julia Grace for lending us the rope from their Adult Field Day the day prior!
Huge Congrats to team Battlefield and to all the participating teams – which reminds us to ask – did the losing teams really get in that dunk tank???
Below are the winners of our Event Raffles:
Winner of the Insignia TV goes to MaryBeth Michel!
Winner of $250 Smoothie King Gift Card goes to Susan Wallace!
Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A (52 meal cards) goes to Bridie Sheehan!
Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A KIDS (52 kids meal cards) goes to Danica Davis!
All winners will be contacted via email to claim their prizes!!!
Congrats all!
Thank you to all our amazing sponsors and supporters of this event. We truly could not do what we do without your support and we are so thankful.
Thank you to all our volunteers, our planning team, to our Guinness World Record Adjucator who was awesome – to our Minion, Cavman, and Chick-fil-A Cow who ALL 3 joined in doing push-ups!
Finally, thank you to Scott Sikes Photography for capturing pictures from the entire day!
As mentioned at the event every dollar raised from this event will be allocated towards our 2022 Research Fund. If you’d like to make a donation, Donate
We do have some leftover EVENT specific apparel, get yours before midnight June 17th, go to Temporary Merchandise Shop!
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to making this event wonderful in every way!
Remember – no matter what it is you are going through, you are never alone, you are loved, and you have an ARMY behind you every step of the way!
It takes an ARMY to fight childhood cancer…. Together we are Alex’s Army!
This is a childhood cancer awareness event. We are creating a banner (or a few banners) with “Our Reasons Why” including pictures of local childhood cancer kiddos to honor your child and to show our community that childhood cancer is not rare. If your child would like to be included on this banner you can do so in 2 ways. IF you’re able to attend the event, simply sign up using the registration link above and indicate you would like more information about participating in the ceremony part of the event. If you are not able to attend the event, send us an email through our Contact Us page and someone will reach out to you to get your child’s info and photo. All photos & info will need to be submitted to us by April 15th to be included on the banner.
Have questions about the event? Click on
register and check-out the FAQs section in the Eventbrite sign-up! Feel
free to reach out if you still have questions afterward!
SPREAD THE WORD! Follow us on social and help spread the word for this event!!!
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 1st through March 15th
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.
This past Saturday, Battlefield High School Bobcats Basketball held our first ever Bucket-A-Thon event at the high school level and collectively raised $12,127.00 for their BHS Boosters AND for our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships!!!
We are thrilled to announce our Bucket-A-Thon program and would LOVE to work with additional schools and organizations down the road. We believe that by partnering together we can make a difference for the programs we work with AND for athletes whose lives are forever changed by a childhood cancer diagnosis.
Learn more about our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships here, the application period for our 2022 scholarships opens Feb. 1!
If you’re interested in learning how your school or org can host your own Bucket-A-Thon to mutually benefit your needs and Alex’s Army, please don’t hesitate to contact us to learn more!
Below are pictures from the BHS Bucket-A-Thon from Saturday, Jan. 22nd. Special thank you to Chick-Fil-A Haymarket and all the donors for your support. Great job to the Battlefield Bobcats Basketball teams and all the best of luck for the rest of the season!
Friday night Alex’s Army was honored to once again be at the Battlefield High School Homecoming and GoldOut football game!
There are so many stories to tell in each one of these pictures…it’s overwhelming to get to see the amazing community and kids at BHS come out and support their peers fighting cancer. From Alex’s friends and cousins (now seniors) supporting other peers, childhood cancer survivors & other fighters supporting their peers, to just seeing kids ask us about the kids fighting and truly wanting to learn more and help, it was a powerful evening in many ways!
There was lots of love for our sweet friend Kendall – a BHS student who is almost finished with her treatment for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. As we know fighting cancer takes away so many things…and Kendall was so bummed to miss Homecoming, but her classmates made sure to send her a TON of LOVE so she knew she is LOVED and that she has an army behind her every step of the way!
Childhood Cancer Survivor Brodie Carroll #33 carried the American Flag and led his team out onto the field Friday night. On his sleeves he wrote Ryland Strong, AG for our Alex, and For All Kids. He is a beast on the field but off the field is is one of the sweetest, most compassionate faith-filled kids you might ever meet.
His mom shared “Even at a young age Brodie understands the gravity of the gift he’s been given. He doesn’t take that lightly and goes full throttle in everything he does. He also holds tightly those we should remember, he doesn’t forget.
We have a TON of pics from the game, thank you to everyone who stopped by our tent to show Kendall some love & to join us in taking a stand in the fight against childhood cancer!
