2007 Boston Marathon

Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 2:46 pm · Events, Marathons

For the third con­sec­u­tive year we will have a team at the Boston Marathon rais­ing funds and rep­re­sent­ing the SHADE Foundation of America.

Our SHADE Team for the 2007 Boston Marathon is Shonda Schilling, Michael Brewer, Brett Schumacher, Jeff Bedard, Paige Bedard, Lin Valera, Rachel Martin, Luke Martin, Graig Hoffman, Allyce Najimy, Caitlin O’Neil, Andrea Crowley, Seumas McMakin, Patrick McMakin, and Mark Fiegel.

2007 Sponsorship Overview

Be a Sponsor and pay online. Did you know that one in five kids will grow up to develop skin cancer?

You can help the SHADE Foundation of America elim­i­nate this alarm­ing sta­tis­tic by spon­sor­ing Shonda Schilling, SHADE Foundation founder and wife of Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling, as she runs the 111th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 16th, 2007.

In 2005 & 2006, Shonda pounded the pave­ment for 26.2 miles each year to raise over $200,000 for the SHADE Foundation. The money was used to pre­vent skin can­cer by edu­cat­ing chil­dren, pro­vid­ing shade cov­er­ings for play­grounds and free screenings.

We are hop­ing you will par­tic­i­pate in this year’s cam­paign by agree­ing to one of the spon­sor­ship levels:

2008 Sponsorship Overview

Marathon Sponsorship — $10,000

As a Marathon spon­sor, you will receive the following:

  • A 10 minute meet & greet with Curt Schilling for 6 peo­ple prior to a Red Sox game on a non pitch­ing day.
  • Curt & Shonda Schilling’s 6 tick­ets in the Exclusive State Street Home Plate Pavilion Club at Fenway Park for one mutu­ally agreed upon 2008 home Red Sox game.
  • Your company’s logo on Shonda Schilling’s marathon shirt.
  • Your company’s logo on the SHADE Foundation’s web­site marathon page. (www.shadefoundation.org)
  • 2 tick­ets to the SHADE Foundation of America Marathon Runners Preview Reception with Shonda Schilling.

Middle Distance Sponsorship — $5,000

As a Middle Distance Sponsor you will receive the following:

  • Curt & Shonda Schilling’s 6 tick­ets in the Exclusive State Street Home Plate Pavilion Club at Fenway Park for one mutu­ally agreed upon 2008 home Red Sox game.
  • Your company’s logo on Shonda Schilling’s marathon shirt.
  • Your company’s logo on the SHADE Foundation’s web­site marathon page. (www.shadefoundation.org)
  • 2 tick­ets to the SHADE Foundation of America Marathon Runners Preview Reception with Shonda Schilling

Sprint Sponsorship — $2,500

As a Sprint Sponsor you will receive the following:

  • Curt & Shonda Schilling’s 2 tick­ets in the Exclusive State Street Home Plate Pavilion Club at Fenway Park for one mutu­ally agreed upon 2008 home Red Sox game.
  • Your company’s logo on Shonda Schilling’s marathon shirt.
  • Your company’s logo on the SHADE Foundation’s web­site marathon page. (www.shadefoundation.org)
  • 2 tick­ets to the SHADE Foundation of America Marathon Runners Preview Reception with Shonda Schilling.

Why Our Runners Are Running

Jeff Bedard:

As I fin­ished the 2006 Boston Marathon at 4:35.00 I made a promise to myself that I would never run another marathon. Then some­thing hap­pened that made me change my mind. One of my best friends lost his Dad this year from melanoma. Another friend lost her Sister to melanoma. Still another friend was diag­nosed with melanoma and is in the bat­tle and will­ing to do every­thing pos­si­ble to win the fight. How could I walk away from the bat­tle when so much more is to be accomplished?

Graig Hoffman:

Can the for­mer 300lb. foot­ball player make it to the fin­ish line of the Boston Marathon? Even though it is 10 years later and I’m 100 lbs lighter, my abil­ity to run dis­tances of 2 – 3 miles was dif­fi­cult. So as you could imag­ine, run­ning a 26.2 mile marathon seemed very over­whelm­ing and an impos­si­ble task. I had a deci­sion to make…I saw an oppor­tu­nity to per­son­ally get involved in the cause of the Shade Foundation and I wanted to chal­lenge myself per­son­ally to com­plete a goal that I viewed as unattainable.

Rachel Martin:

I am a mother of two, Olivia and Ethan Martin. I am a home­maker and active vol­un­teer in the com­mu­nity. I am cur­rently in the process of get­ting my yoga cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with the National Yoga Alliance. I am also very inter­ested in pre­ven­ta­tive health and run­ning the marathon for SHADE will help bring aware­ness to pre­ven­ta­tive skin health.

Andrea Crowley:

To run the Boston Marathon and raise money for the SHADE Foundation has been a goal of since I was diag­nosed with malig­nant melanoma 2 years ago. I was 33 years-old with 3 kids (1, 3 and 6 years), an amaz­ing hus­band, and was com­pletely dev­as­tated when I heard I had skin can­cer. By run­ning the marathon and rais­ing money, I hope to make oth­ers aware of the harm­ful effects of the sun and how to appre­ci­ate it, not wor­ship it or be afraid of it. So, wear sun block and cover up!

Lin Valera:

I’m hon­ored to be run­ning my first full marathon, Boston, as mem­ber of the SHADE Foundation Team. I’m run­ning each mile of this race for some­one spe­cial in my life. I don’t want to think about time on April 16th, we all do enough of that. Instead, I’d rather reflect about what and who mat­ters to me. So I’ll have 26 dif­fer­ent rea­sons to run on this day, the last 0.2 is for myself.

Register