Directions to:
The start and finish will both be at Xavier University's Cintas Center. Please take exit 5 from 71 to Dana Avenue- of you are traveling southbound on 71, make a right at the end of the exit ramp and if you are traveling northbound, make a left. Continue until you reach the first intersection (with a UDF on one of the corners) and make a right onto Montgomery Ave. Go straight until you reach the first light and make a left onto Harold/Cleneay (it changes names) and travel about a half mile. On your right you will see the Cintas Center and parking attendants/signs will be there to help you know where to park!
The “Balderdash”
This November, the Children’s Charities Club of Xavier University will be holding their first ANNUAL 5k run. Xavier University’s first sanctioned, citywide 5K run. Wittily named, the “Balderdash”, it will consist of a 3.1-mile loop around residential Norwood with the official start and finish at the south concourse of the Cintas Center on the edge of Xavier’s Campus. In spirit of the cause, T-shirts will be included with registration that sport the 5K’s title on the front and the phrase, “Are you bald enough?” on the back. All proceeds will benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation who encourages its volunteers to shave their head in solidarity of children with cancer while raising money to fund children’s cancer research. Funding provided by St. Baldrick’s goes to hundreds of research facilities around the country, including one close to home, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
St. Baldrick's Foundation awarded a $50,000 Pediatric Oncology Research Grant to Kathryn Wikenheiser-Brokamp, M.D. of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Wikenheiser-Brokamp's research project is entitled, "Mouse Model to Elucidate Mechanisms of Peuropulmonary Blastoma Initiation." Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a rare but biologically important lung cancer of young children. Inherited mutations in a gene known as DICER1 predispose children to developing PPB, leukemia and other childhood tumors. This research is to determine the events that lead to PPB, and these findings may help develop new detection and treatment strategies for children with PPB and related pediatric malignancies that affect these families.
Please help make this event a success for children with cancer and register to run, walk, or sleep in!
What is the Children’s Charities Club at XU?
The Children’s Charities Club is a newly founded club Xavier University. Our mission is to help raise money for a different children’s charity each academic year. In the spring semester, we will plan and raise money for the events we plan to hold. Come fall semester, we will hold the planned events and raise money. We also volunteer around the community and facilitate opportunities for our members such as applying for volunteer positions at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
The CCC has chosen the St. Baldrick’s Foundation this academic year. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads (‘shavees’) in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family.
In coordination with Xavier University’s passion for service, the CCC board has passionately worked in the past few months to come up with unique ways to raise money for this foundation, including the “Balderdash” 5k. The 5k race we have organized this fall will be the first of many: we plan to hold a 5k run/walk each November for the charity we have chosen for that year- with each named in respect of that charity.
Required Forms
Waiver
Registration Form
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