New in 2022: MCC Swim Team "PINK OUT" Fundraiser /Time Sensitive Info
May 4th
Greetings MCC Swim Team Families!
We have lots of information coming to you over the next few weeks as we prepare for practices starting up next week on Wednesday, May 11th! We will be sending out more reminders and info in the coming days. You can also visit our team website for information on practices times, dates, swim meet dates, and more.A new event this season is our "PINK OUT" at our last swim meet!!! TIME SENSITIVE ORDERING INFO!We have time sensitive information about a new fundraising event this season. For the first time ever, the Cobb County Swim League is participating in a league-wide fundraiser to support "It's the Journey", a non-profit that helps families of people diagnosed with breast cancer right here in Cobb County and the state of Georgia. The league President, Jason Frankel, has a personal story that inspired his family to create this as a fundraiser for the league (shared below).
The
fundraising event is a "pink out" on our last swim meet!! ORDERS DUE MAY 20th!
There is a link below where swimmers and families can purchase Pink swim caps, Pink wristbands and Pink t-shirts to support these families. ALL proceeds will go to "It's the Journey" (zero funds go to Marietta Country Club or to the Cobb County Swim League).
Click below to order your pink swim caps, wristbands and t-shirts here! All orders are due by Friday, May 20th!!!
https://e.givesmart.com/events/q1L/page/order-form/
Both
the Cobb County Swim League and MCC Swim Team hope to have both the
HOME and Visiting Teams decked out in Pink on 6/28 from head to toe as
we show our love and support for all families that have been affected
by breast cancer.
Reminder: all orders are due Friday, May 20th!!! Please consider supporting this wonderful cause!
Sincerely,
MCC Swim Team & the Cobb County Swim League
PS - If you would like to read the personal story of the Frankel Family, we have shared it with you below:
My name is Jason Frankel and I am the president of Cobb Summer Swim
League. I have held this position for 6 years now and during my time as
president, I have personally been through some hard times. In 2019 my
wife was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. Luckily we have
insurance and a large “village” of friends and family that could help my
wife and I and our four children through her double mastectomy and
recovery. When she was declared “cancer free” we decided to give back.
We decided to walk in the 2 Day walk. It was an AMAZING experience!
It’s the Journey is a wonderful company that has run the 2 Day Walk for
20 years now to support LOCAL breast cancer patients. We know that there
are so many families that do not have insurance or a village that need
help to become cancer free.
In 2020, It’s the Journey took a break from the 2-day walk, as many people did due to Covid-19, but in 2021 we committed to walk again. But, life decided to throw us another curveball and my wife’s tumor came back! In July she had a lumpectomy and in order to be extra careful, she was then scheduled for chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Again, our village stepped in and helped out tremendously while we all went through this treacherous journey. Now in 2022 she has completed 3 months of chemotherapy, 33 radiation treatments, an oophorectomy, and now hormone therapy to proudly say she is again “cancer free”. Cancer hit twice, so now we are hitting back twice and harder. We would like the Cobb Summer Swim League to spread awareness and raise money to help stop this vicious disease and to help support other families that are fighting the fight. In teaming up with It’s the Journey, we will be selling pink shirts, pink caps, and pink bracelets to raise money for breast cancer. We have come up with the “pink out” for week 5 of this season in hopes that swimmers and parents will come together, wear pink, and show support for all of the other families that have been affected by breast cancer.
In conjunction with It’s the Journey, the Cobb Summer Swim League and its families we will be helping people diagnosed with breast cancer right here in Cobb County and the state of Georgia. I hope that you will join the fight with us to help everyone affected by breast cancer.
Jason Frankel
In 2020, It’s the Journey took a break from the 2-day walk, as many people did due to Covid-19, but in 2021 we committed to walk again. But, life decided to throw us another curveball and my wife’s tumor came back! In July she had a lumpectomy and in order to be extra careful, she was then scheduled for chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Again, our village stepped in and helped out tremendously while we all went through this treacherous journey. Now in 2022 she has completed 3 months of chemotherapy, 33 radiation treatments, an oophorectomy, and now hormone therapy to proudly say she is again “cancer free”. Cancer hit twice, so now we are hitting back twice and harder. We would like the Cobb Summer Swim League to spread awareness and raise money to help stop this vicious disease and to help support other families that are fighting the fight. In teaming up with It’s the Journey, we will be selling pink shirts, pink caps, and pink bracelets to raise money for breast cancer. We have come up with the “pink out” for week 5 of this season in hopes that swimmers and parents will come together, wear pink, and show support for all of the other families that have been affected by breast cancer.
In conjunction with It’s the Journey, the Cobb Summer Swim League and its families we will be helping people diagnosed with breast cancer right here in Cobb County and the state of Georgia. I hope that you will join the fight with us to help everyone affected by breast cancer.
Jason Frankel
