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Driving for a Cure, Photo Gallery

2024 Driving for a Cure

On Monday, May 6th we held our 9th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament at Piedmont Golf Club in Haymarket, VA.

It was another amazing day of golf, friends, and fundraising – and we are as always so thankful to each and every one of our Sponsors, Golfers, Donors, and Volunteers who joined us once again for this fundraiser event to make a difference for families who know what it’s like to watch their child fight cancer.

Special Thank You once again to this year’s Tournament Sponsor Chick-fil-A of Haymarket & VA Gateway!

Congratulations to our Top Teams and Contest Winners:
1st Place Team: Shawn Hanrahan, Justin Besachio, Jay Price, and Steve Bowling

2nd Place Team: Patrick Delaney, Michael Delaney, George Marquarot, and Beth Foster

3rd Place Team: Kelly Cordle, Ronny White, Larry Doss, and Jason Koch

Hackers’ Award Team: Jacob Green, Travis Green, Kam Franklin, and Jack Berberoglu

Super Putt Contest Winner: Trevor McQuillen

$2500 Putting Contest Attempt: Jack Berberoglu

Longest Drive Male: Jeff Lascola

Longest Drive Female: Caroline Cho

Closest to the Pin: Kevin Kuzma

Pictures are up, we hope you enjoy all the pics from our 9th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament!

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Last but certainly NOT least – at our Driving for a Cure end of tournament banquet this year, we announced an exciting way for our golfers and Driving for a Cure event to directly support our upcoming Family Day for our local families.

We still have supporter spots left and would love if you would consider making a 100% tax-deductible donation to help us make sure this is an incredible event!  Your $100 donation is so greatly appreciated! In doing so you will receive a small sign on the putt-putt golf course that families will read throughout the day as they play.  Our team will reach out to you once all spots are filled to get the information you would like for us to include on your sponsor signage.

Click here to support our Family Day 2024 https://alexsarmyccf.rallyup.com/familyeventsponsor

Until next year golfers…10th Annual here we come!

Cornhole Tournament, Photo Gallery

Cornhole Tournament & Super Bowl Raffle Drawing

Thank you to all who joined us for our 2023 Cornhole Tournament Fundraiser – big congrats to our Top Team winners!

Thank You to our Tournament Sponsor Simply Divine Decorating and to all of our bracket sponsors: GeoYeti, Cupcake Heaven, Next Generation Communications, Stoneberger Garage Doors Unlimited, United Rentals, Hopecam, Minnieland Academy at Heathcote, Prince William Garage Doors, Matt & Jackie Smoot, & The Dunham Family.

Special Thank You to David & Michelle Moffett, J Tred Woodworking, Velocity Wings, Cedar Run Brewery, the Gainesville Grizzlies Youth Football League, and to K-Sports Complex!

And…Super HUGE Congrats to our Super Bowl LVIII Raffle Ticket Winner, Christy G. from Clarksburg, WV!!! 

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Photo Gallery, Super Siblings

Summer Bash 2023

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out and joined us this past Sunday for our Summer Bash event.  

A special thank you to Andy Stromberg and the incredible team at Dulles Golf Center & Sports Park, your support of this event from day 1 has been so appreciated and we are thankful to you and your team for helping ensure this event was a success!  

Special shout-out also to the following individuals and businesses who helped support this year’s family & childhood cancer community event:  Mission BBQ, Moo-Thru Ice Cream, Love Wedding & Events + Photo Booth, Nana’s Facepainting, Craft Basket & the Cassarino Family, to our Driving for a Cure Tournament Golfers who so generously sponsored holes on this event’s Putt-Putt course: Steve Bloom & Family, Tim Moorstein & Family, to this year’s event planners Heather Kuzma & Liz Bush, to our photographers Raishad Peoples & Hollie Piraino, & as always to all of our amazing volunteers!

Our hearts are full from all the fun that we had at our first ever Summer Bash!  We played, we ate, we caught up with so many awesome kiddos, we played putt-putt, found some super cool gems while gemstone mining, hit a few balls in the batting cages, we took cute & silly photo booth pics, made some beautiful sand art, had a treat or two (another double scoop anyone?) – and we did it all true Luau style with smiles on our faces and joy in our hearts!

Below are photos from this year’s event including a few photos from the photo booth fun! 


Additionally, we were sad that our favorite music man Cliff Ziarno & his company Backflip Cat Productions couldn’t make it – we do love the playlist and hope you did too from this year’s event!  Spotify users can check it out here:

Last but certainly not least – Thank you to all of Alex’s Army for your support of our mission. Through your donations and generous support of our foundation, we are able to host events like these to support families and all those impacted by childhood cancers.

It truly takes an ARMY to fight Childhood Cancers…together we are an Alex’s Army and we are making a difference in the lives of children fighting cancer and their families!

Want to support this and other Alex’s Army family events?  Make your tax-deductible donation by clicking here!

Be sure to follow us on social media at @alexsarmyccf

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Couples Retreat, Photo Gallery

2023 Couples Retreat

In 2023 we hosted an intimate group of 9 couples who shared time with each other re-connecting, were able to 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 once again such a blessing to all!

Special thank you to Bernadette & Kevin, Connor’s mom and dad who helped make our 2023 retreat amazing once again!  To our dynamic duo of Alex’s Army Photographers – Raishad & Hollie – for 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 and beautiful bouquet flowers for our couples welcome baskets.  Thank you to Niko’s mama @Nikzo Creations who created beautiful, personalized couples gifts once again!  Thank you to our friends at Denim & Pearls for helping us to host an amazing offsite dinner experience and to the always beautiful Poplar Springs Inn and Spa for helping us host yet another wonderful event!
Driving for a Cure, Photo Gallery

2023 Driving for a Cure

On Monday, May 15th 2023 we held our 8th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament at Dominion Valley Country Club in Haymarket, VA.

We couldn’t have asked for a better weather day and we are so thankful to each and every one of our Sponsors, Golfers, Donors, and Volunteers who joined us once again for this fundraiser event to make a difference for families who know what it’s like to watch their child fight cancer!

Special Thank You once again to this year’s Tournament Sponsor Chick-fil-A of Haymarket & VA Gateway!

Congratulations to our Top Teams and Contest Winners:
1st Place Team: Gary Thomey, Patrick Winslow, Mike Winslow, Jeff Winslow, Teddy Greene

2nd Place Team: Scott Walker, Josh Walker, Charles McCormick, Kevin Kuzma

3rd Place Team: TC Robinson, JR Deering, Dale Tyson, and Sam Hollen

Hackers’ Award Team: Jacob Green, Travis Green, Kam Franklin, Casey Ruland

Super Putt Contest Winner: Travis Green

Longest Drive Male: JR Deering

Longest Drive Female: Marie Leibson

Closest to the Pin: Cody Omohundro

Pictures are up, we hope you enjoy all the pics from our 8th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament! Special thank you to our friends at Love Wedding & Events for donating a super amazing photo booth for all to enjoy! They will ALSO be making an appearance at our 2023 Family Day (see below) and we are so grateful to have their support!

Last but certainly NOT least – at our Driving for a Cure end of tournament banquet this year, we announced an exciting way for our golfers and Driving for a Cure event to directly support our upcoming Family Day for our local families with a child who has fought or is fighting cancer.

We have a limited number of supporter spots left and would love if you would consider making a 100% tax-deductible donation to help us make sure this is an incredible event!

Your $100 donation is so greatly appreciated! In doing so you will receive a small sign on the putt-putt golf course that families will read throughout the day as they play. We will reach out to you once all spots are filled to get the information you’d like for us to include on the signage.

Click the image above or click HERE to support our 2023 Family Day!

Be sure to follow us on social media @alexsarmyccf (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)!

Thank you as always for your support!

Photo booth pictures courtesy of Love & Wedding Events

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Fundraising Events, Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarship, Photo Gallery

PHS Bucket-A-Thon 2023

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Fundraising Events, Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarship, Photo Gallery

GHS Bucket-A-Thon 2023

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Fundraising Events, Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarship, Photo Gallery

BHS Bucket-a-Thon and Gold Out 2023

Thank you to our Bucket-a-Thon Partner Battlefield Basketball for hosting their 2nd Bucket-a-Thon event AND Gold Out this past weekend!!

The Battlefield Bobcats raised a whopping $17,186.00 towards their basketball program and equally supporting our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships!

Learn more about hosting your own Bucket-a-Thon event here.

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Driving for a Cure, Photo Gallery, Thanks

Golf Tournament 2022

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!

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Photo Gallery, Strength in Numbers/Awareness Event

Thank You for your support – Awareness Event 2022

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!