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The Living Donor Support Foundation (LDSF) sponsored kidney transplant recipient and Donor Games athlete Danielle Fiorito to compete at the 2026 Transplant Football World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany, where she earned two major honors: Women’s MVP and the Golden Boot, awarded for her scoring performance. The Transplant Football World Cup brought together transplant recipients from …

The third annual Donor Games Midwest Regional took place on October 3, 2026, bringing together athletes, families, community members, and living donors and recipients for a day centered on fitness, education, and the life-changing impact of organ donation. The 2026 Midwest Regional welcomed 57 athletes, more than 50 spectators, vendors, and more than 30 judges

The National Kidney Registry Renal Warriors crossed the finish line of the 300+ mile Source to City Rat Race in downtown Manhattan on Monday, September 22, 2025. The team of four kidney transplant recipients and seven living kidney donors began their journey four days earlier in Lake Placid with a technical and grueling 18-mile hike …

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is proud to sponsor a team of 11 transplant recipients and donors as they take on the grueling Rat Race: Source to City, a 316‑mile multisport traverse of the Hudson River Valley, beginning at the river’s source in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and ending in Battery Park, …

On September 22, 2024, living kidney donor Elizabeth Young competed in the Women’s Ironman World Championship in Nice, France. Young’s participating in the event was sponsored by the National Kidney Registry. Young donated a kidney to a stranger in 2022. She has completed 12 Ironman competitions, six of them since her donation. She completed the …

Theron Hayes has gone above and beyond to make a life-changing difference. He donated a kidney in 2023, hiked the Pacific Crest Trail to raise awareness for living kidney donation with sponsorship from the National Kidney Registry, and is now preparing to donate a portion of his liver to a stranger. Hayes’ kidney donation journey …

On September 27, 2024, four women completed a four-day, 444-mile bicycle ride to raise awareness for living kidney donation. The four women, all living kidney donors, were sponsored by the National Kidney Registry. The bicycle ride began in Nashville, Tennessee, and traveled along the Natchez Trace Parkway, a 444-mile recreational road and scenic drive through …

On August 2–3, 2024, a team of seven kidney donors, five kidney recipients, and two drivers/support crew who are also donors will compete in the Wild West Relay, a 200-mile journey through the Rocky Mountains consisting of 16,000 feet of climbing at elevations of two miles above sea level. This is a unique effort to …

Hilary Baude, a living kidney donor athlete sponsored by the National Kidney Registry, has completed the 1K12M (One Kidney, 12 Marathons) challenge. Baude, along with fellow NKR-sponsored kidney donor athlete Matt Cavanaugh, tackled the 1K12M challenge to shatter the misperception that kidney donation imposes physical limits on donors by completing 12 marathons within one year.

On December 10, Matt Cavanaugh, a living kidney donor athlete sponsored by the National Kidney Registry, completed the Honolulu Marathon, the final marathon in the 1K12M (One Kidney, 12 Marathons) challenge. In early 2023, Cavanaugh set out to shatter the misperception that kidney donation imposes physical limits on donors by completing 12 sub-3-hour marathons within …