WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College swim teams will be one of more than 165 swim teams across America that will help honor former Carleton College (Minn.) swimmer Ted Mullin as it participates in the 20th annual Ted Mullin "Leave it in the Pool" Hour of Power Relay for Pediatric Sarcoma Research. The event is set for Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 4-5 p.m.
 
If you are interested in adding to Lycoming College's donation for the Hour of Power, please donate here.

The Hour of Power event honors those who are fighting or have succumbed to cancer, including former Carleton swimmer Edward H. "Ted" Mullin, who passed away from synovial sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in September 2006.  The annual swim relay has grown from 15 teams in its first year to average more than165 teams and more than 8,000 athletes in recent years. Participating swim teams engage in continuous relays of any stroke for a full hour of all-out swimming.
 
The all-out 60-minute relay is a challenging workout that fuels team spirit and fosters cooperation among team members. The event aims to generate awareness of sarcoma, a rare cancer that disproportionately affects adolescents and young adults.
 
Over the first 19 years, participating teams have raised more than $1.7 million to support research at the University of Chicago into the causes and treatment of sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer.
 
For the Warriors, the event—which will be held in the Lamade Gym Natatorium—is a one-hour, leave-it-in-the-pool practice consisting of continuous relays, using any stroke.
 
Lycoming College is a repeat sponsor of the event, having taken part in 17 of the 20 annual relays.
 
The funds have been used for a variety of projects that evaluate the genetic basis of sarcomas, the identification of novel markers of disease diagnosis or progression, and the development of new small molecule and cell therapies for resistant disease.  Each summer, the University also hosts Ted Mullin Fund scholars, offering four to five Hour of Power participants an opportunity to advance their interest in science and cancer biology by spending 10 weeks in a laboratory under the mentorship of a pediatric cancer researcher within the Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, at the University of Chicago.