The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a team event to raise funds to fight cancer and raise cancer awareness in the community. It is a celebration of life honoring cancer survivors. While the Relay is going on, team members who are camping out, enjoying entertainment, food, games, and camaraderie create a community party atmosphere. Although the event is planned and executed by students, other members of the Saint Louis University community are welcome to organize teams and help fund-raise. In fact, one of our goals for this year is to vastly increase faculty and alumni involvement.

Teams of 8 – 15 people can come from departments, residence hall floors, student organizations, or just groups of friends. Signing up is easy! Simply email us for more details, stop by an informational meeting, or come see us while we have a table set up in the BSC (table and meeting dates, times and locations listed below).

One team member walks or runs the track in alternating shifts. So, the event is referred to as a “Relay” because teams pledge to have one team member on the track at all times. The track is a social environment— walking around it, you’ll see old friends and new friends talking about the great time they are having!

The initial commitment is $10 per team member, which means that each participant is committing themselves to each raising a minimum of $100. The registration fee is due upon submission of the registration form (see .PDF version available online and see dates below). An event T-shirt will be distributed to team members at the event if their registration fee is paid by February 17th, and their commitment goal of $100 is met by the night of the Relay. Team awards will be presented at the event’s closing ceremony. Team Fund-raising to meet this challenge is also encouraged!

Our student involvement last year was superb, especially considering that it was the University’s first Relay; we had 800 participants and raised over $85,000. This year, we are trying to reach higher. Our goal is to have over 1000 participants and to raise over $125,000.