2024 sT. jude kick-a-thon fundraiser event
Our annual fundraising event benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Competitors compete in this fun but competitive competition all to raise donations for the children and families of St Jude.
Divisions: Traditional Forms, Creative/Musical Forms, Traditional Weapons, Creative/Musical Weapons, Point Sparring, Team Sparring, Karate Flag, and our Kick Challenge!
This event page is designed to update you on any announcements, sponsor information, provide tournament information, rules breakdown, and everything to assist you in our special event.
Divisions: Traditional Forms, Creative/Musical Forms, Traditional Weapons, Creative/Musical Weapons, Point Sparring, Team Sparring, Karate Flag, and our Kick Challenge!
This event page is designed to update you on any announcements, sponsor information, provide tournament information, rules breakdown, and everything to assist you in our special event.
Hosted By Sean Gilham of Impact Martial Arts.
Tournament Location
We are greatly appreciative of our event partner
P360 Sports Performance Geaux Play!
Website Facebook
Tournament Location
We are greatly appreciative of our event partner
P360 Sports Performance Geaux Play!
Website Facebook
Our sponsors are a huge part of our event! Not only does it cut the cost of tournament, which will in turn send more money to St. Jude, but our sponsors help cover the cost of awards given out to competitors. We are thankful for all our sponsors!
|
Can't attend but want to support St. Jude,
Donate here as part of our event! |
TOURNAMENT RESOURCES
|
|
|
From Mr. Sean Gilham - Event/Tournament Host,
Since 2008, I have hosted a fundraiser event benefiting the children at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It started off with a few Kick-A-Thon Challenges and public demonstrations with the students and now has grown to hosting many tournaments with our Martial Arts friends. To see the students and other Martial Arts schools come together for a whole month of fundraising for the great hospital of St. Jude is a blessing.
One of the opportunities I love the most is visiting St Jude Hospital in Memphis, TN each year. I have been able to bring many students and parents along with me to experience a tour of the hospital (functioning 24 hours) and gain knowledge, humility, and appreciation.
On a more personal note: Someone I call my little sister was saved by a St Jude doctor as a baby during a surgical procedure. I've had the pleasure to meet a cancer survivor from St Jude and talk with her about her experiences at the hospital. Also, visiting and seeing the great things happening at the hospital - I know that our fundraiser is going to a great cause.
Since 2008, I have hosted a fundraiser event benefiting the children at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It started off with a few Kick-A-Thon Challenges and public demonstrations with the students and now has grown to hosting many tournaments with our Martial Arts friends. To see the students and other Martial Arts schools come together for a whole month of fundraising for the great hospital of St. Jude is a blessing.
One of the opportunities I love the most is visiting St Jude Hospital in Memphis, TN each year. I have been able to bring many students and parents along with me to experience a tour of the hospital (functioning 24 hours) and gain knowledge, humility, and appreciation.
On a more personal note: Someone I call my little sister was saved by a St Jude doctor as a baby during a surgical procedure. I've had the pleasure to meet a cancer survivor from St Jude and talk with her about her experiences at the hospital. Also, visiting and seeing the great things happening at the hospital - I know that our fundraiser is going to a great cause.
About St Jude: More information can be found at their website click here
How did St. Jude begin? Founder and entertainer Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude in 1962 with the dream that “no child should die in the dawn of life."
Why should I support St. Jude? Unlike any other hospital, the majority of St. Jude’s funding comes from individual contributions. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because St. Jude believes that all a family should worry about is helping their child live. While St. Jude does accept insurance, they are a research hospital, so many of the treatments and services provided are not covered by insurance and will not be in the future.
What does St. Jude pay for? St. Jude pays for ALL treatment; travel for a patient and a parent; housing for up to four in a family with options for bigger accommodations; and a daily food allowance for their cafeteria as well as food gift cards so families can prepare meals in one of St. Jude’s three housing facilities. St. Jude’s onsite school allows patients to keep up with their school program back home. They offer numerous other services for their families, including psychosocial help for caregivers and siblings coping with a child’s cancer diagnosis; child life specialists, concierge services to help families with everyday tasks like delivering groceries, translation help for those who do not speak English as a first language, babysitting and much more.
The treatments for pediatric cancer can last up to three years or more and cost on average $425,000, including housing, travel and food. If a family has insurance, St. Jude will bill the insurance company, but no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for care and no family is asked to pay co-pays or deductibles. More than 50 percent of St. Jude patients are under-insured or uninsured.
82 cents of every dollar received from donations, research grants, insurance recoveries and investment returns goes to support the current and future needs of St. Jude. Donors can trust that their giving has helped save the lives of thousands of children.
Who is impacted? St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80% today. In addition, St. Jude has achieved a 94% survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), up from 4% in 1962, and the survival rate for medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor, increased from 10 percent to 85% today.
Despite all that progress, 1 in 5 children in the U.S. who are diagnosed with cancer will not survive. Globally, the vast majority of childhood cancer patients do not have access to adequate care and will not survive. St. Jude and their supporters are working hard to change this through generous donations.
Why should I support St. Jude? Unlike any other hospital, the majority of St. Jude’s funding comes from individual contributions. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because St. Jude believes that all a family should worry about is helping their child live. While St. Jude does accept insurance, they are a research hospital, so many of the treatments and services provided are not covered by insurance and will not be in the future.
What does St. Jude pay for? St. Jude pays for ALL treatment; travel for a patient and a parent; housing for up to four in a family with options for bigger accommodations; and a daily food allowance for their cafeteria as well as food gift cards so families can prepare meals in one of St. Jude’s three housing facilities. St. Jude’s onsite school allows patients to keep up with their school program back home. They offer numerous other services for their families, including psychosocial help for caregivers and siblings coping with a child’s cancer diagnosis; child life specialists, concierge services to help families with everyday tasks like delivering groceries, translation help for those who do not speak English as a first language, babysitting and much more.
The treatments for pediatric cancer can last up to three years or more and cost on average $425,000, including housing, travel and food. If a family has insurance, St. Jude will bill the insurance company, but no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for care and no family is asked to pay co-pays or deductibles. More than 50 percent of St. Jude patients are under-insured or uninsured.
82 cents of every dollar received from donations, research grants, insurance recoveries and investment returns goes to support the current and future needs of St. Jude. Donors can trust that their giving has helped save the lives of thousands of children.
Who is impacted? St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80% today. In addition, St. Jude has achieved a 94% survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), up from 4% in 1962, and the survival rate for medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor, increased from 10 percent to 85% today.
Despite all that progress, 1 in 5 children in the U.S. who are diagnosed with cancer will not survive. Globally, the vast majority of childhood cancer patients do not have access to adequate care and will not survive. St. Jude and their supporters are working hard to change this through generous donations.