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!

Below are just a few, but you can see all pictures here:
Full Photo Gallery courtesy of Scott Sikes

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!