About Athletes For a Cure

A program of The Prostate Cancer Foundation (see below), this initiative helps individual athletes raise money for better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. Every dollar raised goes directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The Athletes for a Cure website has an online program, which gives you all the tools you need to hold your own fundraising. You can register online to raise money at any event you are participating in or also by being a part of one of the program’s own special events. Once registered you can upload photos, personal stories and race information on your very own fundraising page. You can also set donation goals, send emails to your friends and family through the “Friends Asking Friends” network and watch your donations climb.

ABOUT THE PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research. The PCF has a single, yet urgent goal: to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. The PCF pursues its mission by reaching out to individuals, corporations and others to harness society’s resources – financial and human – to fight this deadly disease.

Founded in 1993, the PCF has raised more than $370 million and provided funding to more than 1,500 researchers at nearly 200 institutions worldwide. The PCF has been a pioneer in the grant making process, simplifying paperwork for grantees, leaving more time for researchers to conduct needed scientific research. The PCF also advocates for greater awareness of prostate cancer and more governmental resources, resulting in a 20-fold increase in government funding for prostate cancer.

For more information about the PCF, visit www.prostatecancerfoundation.org.

Athletes Supporting the Program

Several Pro athletes including many of Triathlon’s finest support Athletes for a Cure. Their esteemed list includes reigning World Champion Craig Alexander as well as Triathlon greats Michellie Jones, Simon Lessing and Eduardo Sturla.

You will also find other elite athletes such as Danelle Ballengee – who has earned “US Athlete of the Year” titles in Adventure racing, Duathlon, Mountain Running, and Multisport – Dean Karnazes aka Ultra Marathon Man and pro snowboarder Steve Fisher.

With all these prestigious names supporting their cause you can’t help but join in!

Managing Director Scott Zagarino

“I lost my Grandfather to stomach cancer, my Father to colon cancer and two of my favorite Aunts to pancreatic and lung cancer, respectively. I even lost my dog to cancer. Whatever plans I had for the second half of my life have been permanently altered by the people at the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their commitment to one goal – the eradication of cancer. I’m proud to be a part of this organization and I’m in the fight to the end.”

Scott Zagarino is the Managing Director of Athletes for a Cure and is responsible for overseeing its development and marketing.

Born in Laredo, Texas and raised in Miami, Florida, Zagarino grew up racing Olympic class sailboats. Sailing brought him to California in 1979, where he was hired to run a training program for Olympic sailors. He began competing in triathlon in 1985 and qualified to compete as a professional in 1987. Zagarino became a member of the US National Team in 1989 and has competed in more than 100 triathlons around the world.

Zagarino since founded CS Sports Marketing where he secured an over $6 million, 5 year sponsorship from Gatorade to be the title sponsor of the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.

In 2000, Zagarino founded Adventure Training Consultants, Inc., which specialized in using outdoor and adventure skills to teach people how to confront and overcome adversity. These exceptional programs were featured in prestigious publications such as Outside magazine, National Geographic Explorer, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Zagarino also founded Triathletes for Kids, a program in which professional triathletes share their time with chronic and terminally ill children in hospitals throughout North America.

What an exceptional man with an incredible list of accomplishments! It seems only right that he be overseeing a cause such as this.

Support Athletes for a Cure

Please take a browse through the Athletes for a Cure website. There you will find even more information including on the program and how you yourself can be an athlete for a cure. With the program’s sponsors GNC, Newton Running, Oakley and Zoot you even have a chance to win some prizes for your support!

You don’t actually have to compete in anything to support the program. You can sponsor a participant who has registered and is holding his or her own fundraising or even just make a general donation straight to the cause.

I hope that I have given you all the information you need about Athletes for a Cure. I will be registering myself soon and you will be sure to see me raising as much as I can at my next event!