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Title Sponsor
Primrose School of Hendersonville
The Hendersonville Half Marathon and The Rotary Club of Hendersonville are deeply grateful to the Primrose School of Hendersonville for returning for the fourth year as our Title Sponsor!
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About Hendersonville Rotary Club
The Hendersonville Half Marathon has become one of the Rotary Club of Hendersonville's yearly fundraising events to benefit a local charity.
2021 will be the fifth year of our race. A few fun facts from our first four years:
- In the past four years we have had runners from 28 different cities in the state of Tennessee in addition to Hendersonville.
- Our reach out of state includes Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin!
- With 26 states represented, we are more than halfway there to having runners from every state. We've also been joined by runners from Canada, Germany and Poland!
- During years one and two, we raised money for Mary’s Magical Place in support of their efforts to build a playground for special needs children here in Hendersonville. The playground is open and is attracting national attention for its quality and design.
- In years three and four, our race committee chose The Mighty Mitchell Foundation as the focus of our fundraising efforts.
- Our sponsorship funds allowed us to certify the course, purchase safety vests, run internet and paper advertising and pay the company that registers the racers and sets up our start/finish line.
- The Hendersonville Half Marathon has engaged the high school honor societies, business clubs, athletes and volunteers from the community. The Streets of Indian Lake has been very supportive of our efforts, as well as Fleet Feet, the YMCA and many local hotels. And, of course, we could not have pulled off the event these last two years without the support of our Mayor's office, the Hendersonville Police Department and our EMTs.
This Year's Cause
This year, we are proud to once again, support The Mighty Mitchell Foundation through funds raised by the Hendersonville Half Marathon.
MIGHTY MITCHELL FOUNDATION
The idea for the Mighty Mitchell Foundation was created after Mitchell was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2014 at the age of 4 and our family was introduced to this scary reality for families battling pediatric cancer. Very early on we discovered how great of a need there is for families and patients affected by cancer. Many of these parents are young and do not have a lot of financial means and battling this disease along with financial and emotional stress creates a toll on families. We created this foundation to be a support organization to help connect families to resources as they battle this disease. Unfortunately, pediatric cancer research is significantly underfunded so there is a huge need to have more research provided. There is a lot of stress on families and our goal is to help provide some hope for families going through treatment with a child to save marriages, provide hope and a source of happiness to patients that lose peer interaction and the pureness of being a child, along with siblings that lose a lot of attention from family members while their brother or sister receive care.
http://www.mightymitchellfoundation.com
ABOUT THE HENDERSONVILLE ROTARY
We invite you to learn more about the Hendersonville Rotary, our mission, foundation, causes we support, and other events.