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Teams

If you're ready, click here to set up your team. For more information, please read on.

Download or review the 2009 Team Captain Kit.

Why a Team?

The Team Program offers groups of 10 or more people from all walks of life the opportunity to make a difference in our community. Corporations, community organizations, schools, families and friends - all can take part in the largest grassroots effort in the country in the fight breast cancer.

  • Together as a team you can speak with one voice in support of a coworker, mother, friend, sister, whose life has been changed by the words, "You have breast cancer." Worldwide, that happens every 29 seconds!

  • Together as a team you can spread the word about early detection as the key to survival. Detected early, breast cancer is over 95% survivable.

  • Together as a team you can raise money to support life saving education, outreach, treatment and research. Since Komen Detroit's first Race in 1992, we have invested more than $13 million in breast cancer screening, treatment, education and research.

  • And together, you'll have a great time! Wonderful sponsors make our Team Awards Program terrific! See details in the Team Captain Kit and below.

We've got some great tools for you and we're here to help. Your responsibilities as a Team Captain, along with everything you need for a successful team, are in the Team Captain Kit.

So join us, register your team and spread the word that the place to be on Saturday, May 30, 2009 is at Comerica Park for the:

18th Annual Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ!

See you there!

Sandy Jessop
Jan Tebelman

Teams Program Co-Chairs

Please click here for team pictures from the 2008 Race! If you find yourself in a picture, please share a Race day memory by emailing raceforthecure@karmanos.org.

The 2008 Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ was another great success for teams. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible.

  • TEAM AWARDS were bigger and better than ever!
  • We hope you took advantage of Team MEET.
  • Thanks to all of our 2008 Team Program sponsors and donors:

Absopure Water
Binson's Home Health Care Centers, Inc.
Detroit Shock
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Tigers
Ford Motor Company
New Balance Farmington Hills and Troy
Olympia Entertainment
Outback Steakhouse
Panera Bread
Quilted Northern Ultra
Tourneau

We encourage you to support our team program sponsors and let them know you appreciate their participation in the Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ.

Please visit http://DetroitRFTC.dotphoto.com. Photos from the 2008 Race are available to view and purchase. Proceeds benefit the Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ.

Thank you Sandy Jessop and Jan Tebelman, Teams Co-Chairs!

For more information on Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ Teams, please contact: raceforthecure@karmanos.org.

2008 Team Awards
Ford "Largest Corporate Team" Awards: Trophy and Ford gifts
Ford Team - 2,167 (Company size 5,001+ employees)
 
Compuware - 588 (Company size 501-5,000 employees)
 
Binson/Northwood 2008 - 344 (Company size up to 500 employees)
 
Ford "Largest Family-Generated Team" Award: Trophy and Ford gifts Donna's Angels - 428 
 
Ford "Largest Community Team" Award: Trophy and Ford gifts Team New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church  - 480
 
Ford "Largest School Team" Awards: Trophy and Ford gifts Grosse Pointe Schools & Friends - 169 (K through 12)

Oakland Community College-61(College/University)
 

Detroit Shock "Pretty in Pink" Award: (greatest number of survivors) Team Boyd

Honored at the September 9, 2008 Detroit Shock Breast Health Awareness game benefiting Komen Detroit Race for the CureŽ. 

Outback Steakhouse "Grow Getters" Award: (teams with the greatest proportional increase in membership) Outback Steakhouse gifts Fidelity Bank - grew from 16 to 82(15-50 members)

Team Boyd - grew from 77 to 164  members (51-100 members)

Binson/Northwood 2008 - grew from 122 to 344 members (100+ members)

Detroit Tigers Wives' "Rookie of the Year" Award: (largest new team) Tickets to a Tiger's game - date to be announced Honigman Heroes - 145 
2008 Tourneau Co-Survivor Award: Tourneau gifts It's 'R' Time for a Cure - Click here to read the winning story.
2008 Co-survivor Award Runner Up: Zeta Tau Alpha Team - Click here to read the story.
2007 Coldwater Creek Co-Survivor Award:
Kaye's Lucky Charms - Click here to read the winning story.
2006 Tourneau Co-Survivor Award:
Stay and Play for a Cure

Click here to read the winning story.

2005 DSW Co-Survivor Award:
Allison's Army

Click here to read the winning story.

Outback Steakhouse “Spirit” Award:

Cancer Sucks

Team T-Shirt Competition: (best team t-shirt based on dollars contributed as votes)

1st Place - Stay and Play for a Cure - $4,029

2nd Place - Compuware - $1,261.54

3rd Place - Pulte Homes - $1,005

Team T-Shirt Competition:

New Balance Favorite Design
An independent group from New Balance will pick their favorite design.
The winners receive -
  • First Place - $400 in New Balance Gift Certificates
  • Runner Up - $200 in New Balance Gift Certificates

1st Place - Weezy's Walkers

Runner Up - Just...Looking for a Cure

New Balance Friends for the CureŽ "Team Challenge" Award: Awarded to teams with the largest amount of donations to Friends for the CureŽ.

Category 1-Taubman Asset Group $30,192 with 16 members

Category 2-Plante & Moran's AWESOME Team $53,630 with 26 members

Category 3-Barb's Battalion $13,052 with 81 members

Category 4-Smith Barney $52,906 with 147 members

Category 5-Ford $59,057 with 2,167 members
New Balance "Team Challenge" Incentive Program: Given to each qualifying member of teams that achieve fundraising levels below.

Category 1-DASH for a Cure with 85.7% of their team raising at least $100

Category 2-Plante & Moran's AWESOME Team with 84.6% of their team raising at least $100

Category 3-Deloitte for the Cure with 30% of their team raising at least $100

Category 4-Smith Barney with 27.9% of their team raising at least $100

Category 5-Stay and Play for the Cure with 13.1% of their team raising at least $100
Honorary Team New Balance -
Celebrating stories of cancer survival and to spread the word that there is fitness after cancer!
Komen Detroit Member: Katrina Studvent
2007 Member: Merion Knight
2006 Member: Kathy Knezek
Rev. 11-17-2008