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!
It’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month & Alex’s Army is going GOLD!!!
As our good friends with Team Mathias do in the Town of Leesburg VA year after year, we have once again for the 4th year in a row decorated our Town of Haymarket with Gold bows up and down Washington street. We were honored to have our Town of Haymarket Mayor Ken Luersen and Town Councilman Joe Pasanello join us!
This year thanks to the support of our friends at Grizzly Sports Complex, while we weren’t able to hold our Annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games (stay tuned til next year!) we were able to turn the sports complex Gold as well!
This tradition has become one of our favorites in that it truly is such a special thing to be a part of. We hang the ribbons each year not only to raise awareness, but also as a symbol of our love for all of the families whose lives are forever impacted by a childhood cancer diagnosis. We hang these gold ribbons to stand united with families walking this difficult path so they know they are not alone in their fight and that ours is a community that cares.
Be sure to check back on our website for more pictures of tonight’s ribbon hanging!
Special thank you to the Haymarket Town Hall for allowing us to do this each year and by supporting us even more by joining us in our efforts! Thank you to Photography By Trisha for capturing the Haymarket team and to Hollie Farrish Piraino for capturing the Grizzly team.
A super big THANK YOU to our sweet friend Nicole at Salsa Sweets for donating the delicious gold ribbon cookies for our volunteers and some of our families we were delivering gifts to this week. And thank you as always to all of our families and volunteers who came out to help us once again paint the town GOLD!
There are lots of things going on in September for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. More kids than you would want to believe in your community and all over our country are impacted by childhood cancers. Get involved and join us in raising awareness this month and all year long!
Thank you so much to everyone who made our 6th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament a huge success! While the temps were hot, our golfers, volunteers, and sponsors were as amazing as always and contributed to another fun day of golf!
Together we raised a whopping $36,486.83 towards our mission!!!
We’d like to once again thank our Tournament Sponsor Thrivent Financial Dulles Group for their support and incredible generosity in sponsoring our event. From handing out extra waters/snacks on the turn to raffling off their own Yeti cooler to raise additional funds – each year they have been a proud supporter and we are grateful for Marty, Dave, Kim & group!
Thank you to all of our Sponsors: Brilliant Remodeling / Mosaic, Branscome Paving Company, A1 FloodTech, Brown & Brown Insurance, Cardinal Business Products, Chick-fil-A, Dewberry, EastCoast Insulators, Ennis Electric, FVC Bank, GD Flight Ops, General Dynamics, Greco Masonry, Haymarket Kings Basketball Team, Invisible Fence Brand by Clark Associates, Jennifer Young Homes, One Hot Mess, Park Valley Church, Patriot Auto Glass, Primis, R&S Services, RHOLC, Superior Paving, & The Thomey Family.
Thank you to our friend Niko’s dad Juan for joining us and sharing their families story with all of us. We know Juan touched many hearts and what he did isn’t always easy to do. Please keep the entire Chavarriaga family in your thoughts and prayers as we know too well that a cancer diagnosis is life-changing, we pray for Niko’s continued good health and healing from all he & his family have been through over the last few years.
Thank you to all of our in-kind donors who helped contribute toward auction and raffle items, our awesome team of volunteers, all our participants, and of course to the staff and team at Piedmont Golf Club. Each of you contribute to the success of this event year after year, and we are so grateful.
And a big Thank You once again to our Golf Tournament Director Franz Ferstl for 6 years’ of awesome events! We wish you, Leslie, & your family all the best in the next chapter of your lives together!
Congratulations to the following teams for placing in this years event: 1st Place Bryce Corbett, Tate Corbett, Gavin Furlong, Austin Nevins
2nd Place Todd Keener, Tony Gourley, Steve Hardt, Tim Juran
3rd Place David Branscome Jr., Thomas Whitsman, Josh Baird, Cody Reeves
And of course to the recipients of our first ever Hackers Award: Steve Bloom, Ernest Bush, Charlie Patten, Chris Pool
Congrats to our contest winners: Longest Drive Ladies – Beth Foster Mens – Bryce Corbett
Closest to the Pin Nick Yates
Closest to the Pin Jason Brunetti
We hope you enjoy the pictures from this event – shout out to Raishad & Hollie along with a few of you who tagged us in your own pics on social media!
Save the Date: Monday, June 7th Location: Piedmont Golf Club, Haymarket, VA More details including registration & sponsorship opportunities coming soon!
On Dec 19th Alex’s brother Jacob and his basketball team, the AAU Haymarket Kings, hosted a Bucket-A-Thon for Kids Fundraiser benefiting Alex’s Army!
The team, led by Coach Schwemer and Coach Sheetz in 1 night raised $5,208 to help fight childhood cancer by doing something they love – making buckets!
Congrats to the following prize winners who won training sessions generously donated by Evolution Basketball (Gainesville) Top Fundraisers
1. Bryce S.
2. Jacob G.
3. Matthew B.
And shout-out to Jayden C. who was the King of the Court last night with 19/20 buckets made!
Thank you so much to each of these boys for your commitment to make a difference in the fight against childhood cancer!
December 5th we got to participate in a wonderful celebration for one of our favorite kiddos, Niko! Niko was not only celebrating finishing 3 years of Leukemia treatment, but he also was celebrating his 9th Birthday! Hosted by the amazing staff at Haymarket Elementary School we joined forces with many groups in our community to come together to shower Niko and his family with some Alex’s Army love thank you to all who joined us for what turned out to be a beautiful day in many ways!
Last weekend, Alex’s Army had the honor of helping to plan an End of Treatment Celebration (social distance style) for a special young man and his family. With the help of MANY amazing people in the community, Quinn & his family were showered with an unforgettable day!
Thanks to the help of our friends at Team Mathias and the wonderful people over at Ashburn Volunteer Fire Rescue Department – the awesome siren and horn welcomed Quinn and his family as they arrived and made their way around the parking lot which was filled with Team Quinn Gorman friends, family, childhood cancer non-profits like Team Mathias, Stillbrave, Ellie’s Hats, and several other childhood cancer families who all were there in support and to shower the Gorman family with LOVE!!!
Thanks to the wonderful people with the The 501st Legion, Quinn – who mom Nikki says is a Mandalorian fan – was welcomed also by none other than Chewbacca, the Imperial Guard, & Mandalorian! Not only that, but a few other awesome storm troopers stopped by Quinn’s home to pose in front of his End of Treatment sign his family had and left him a book to let Quinn know they were there!
Quinn got to meet his Principal, his Dean, and a few other staff in person for the first time since school has been virtual. The staff at Belmont Ridge Middle School were so wonderful in coordinating the location for the celebration on such short notice and helped with balloons, music, and the bullhorn (which came in handy being so spread out although we definitely needed practice in using one – should have had Tom take the reigns on that one!)
The day was made even more memorable by our friends, the self-proclaimed “Glory Hounds” who made a surprise appearance and decorated the clear blue skies over Quinn and his family! There were tears and applause throughout the entire group as a heart was made complete through the talents of local Leesburg area pilots Jim and Mark who not only made a heart, but a smiley face, and finished with a few low-flying passes over the group to help make Quinn’s day extra special! A special Alex’s Army shout-out to the Potomac Tracon and Leesburg Executive Airport Tower staff who worked quickly together to get Jim and Mark airborne once they heard the purpose behind the two flights departing for Quinn’s celebration. Mark shared that there were some delays due to heavy air traffic in the area but the moment he shared with the controllers what their flight mission was everyone came together quickly to help make it happen!
Finally, when the Gorman family arrived home there were a few more surprises in store like a moon bounce for Quinn & his sisters to enjoy with the help of our friends at AMUSEMENT OF BOUNCERS as well as a few small gifts from Alex’s Army to keep the celebration going!Days like these are so incredibly special. I don’t think there are many things more special than getting to witness a child and their family who you’ve watched go through some incredibly tough things, finally get to celebrate finishing treatment! The Gorman family is one of the sweetest families you could have the pleasure of meeting and Quinn’s kind smile despite being in the hospital always touched our hearts. Thank you Nikki and Gorman family for allowing us to help in this celebration of Quinn’s End of Treatment! Thank you to all of Team Quinn Gorman who showed up and showered this sweet boy with a welcome home and celebration that he will never forget.
Alex’s Army please keep Quinn and his family in your prayers for continued healing, good health, and to remain cancer-free forever!
