Press Releases

If you are a living donor athlete or a professional who works at a transplant center with dreams of competing in a major athletic event in 2024, the National Kidney Registry is excited to announce an opportunity for financial sponsorship through the Donor Games initiative. The Donor Games is dedicated to promoting the importance of … Read More

Congratulations to all the athletes who participated in the Donor Games 2023 Championship on Saturday, September 30, at Affinity Athletics in Stamford, Connecticut. It was our best Championship yet, with some new faces, many amazing performances, and two tiebreakers in the women’s division. Women’s Division Results Mimi Mahon, who took first place in the 2021 … Read More

Kidney donor athletes Matt Cavanaugh and Hilary Baude, after successfully completing the first marathon of their 1K12M (One Kidney, 12 Marathons) challenge, are gearing up for the next marathon on the list, the Los Angeles Marathon on March 19. 1K12M is a full-year challenge sponsored by the National Kidney Registry, in which Matt and Hilary … Read More

The National Kidney Registry is excited to announce 1K12M (One Kidney, 12 Marathons)—a full-year challenge in which NKR-sponsored kidney donor athletes Matt Cavanaugh and Hilary Baude will participate in 12 marathons throughout 2023 all across the United States. 1K12M is Matt Cavanaugh’s latest attempt to shatter the misperception that kidney donation imposes physical limits on … Read More

The National Kidney Registry is excited to announce its latest sponsored event: an attempt by a team of living kidney donors to set a new world record and shatter the misperception that kidney donation imposes physical limits on donors. In May 2023, three mountaineers assisted by two support crew will attempt to break the current … Read More

The Donor Games 2022 Championship took place on Saturday, September 17, at Affinity Athletics in Stamford, Connecticut. It was another exciting competition, with many amazing performances and a thrilling three-way tiebreaker for 3rd place in the men’s division. Mimi Mahon, a consistent winner in past Open competitions and the 1st place finisher in the 2021 … Read More

The National Kidney Registry is thrilled to announce its latest kidney donor athlete sponsorship: Steve Wilson, a living kidney donor who will be competing in the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, October 6-8, 2022. Steve donated a kidney through the National Kidney Registry’s Family Voucher Program in February 2020 after seeing a Facebook post … Read More

The National Kidney Registry will hold the second annual Donor Games Championship on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at Affinity Athletics in Stamford, Connecticut. This year’s Donor Games Championship is by invitation only, with the majority of competitors being kidney donor athletes. Several kidney transplant recipients and transplant industry professionals will also compete. All competitors will … Read More

Matt Cavanaugh, an active duty US Army Strategist and living kidney donor, has completed the Georgia 2022 Race—the second race in the Racing the Planet 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series, a series of four races covered approximately 1,000 kilometers. Georgia 2022, a Special Edition of the Racing the Planet Ultramarathon, was held in the southwestern corner … Read More

Donor Games sponsored athlete David Ashley successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest in the early hours of Friday, May 13, 2022, the final peak in his 1 Kidney 7 Summits challenge. Dave started the 7 Summits challenge in June 2021 with a successful summit of Denali in Alaska, and through the remainder of 2021 … Read More