After years of being told what to, where to go, what treatments he had to endure, Jack is finally in the driver’s seat! We met 7-year old Jack after a teacher at his school nominated him through the Team Summer website! Jack battled leukemia for three years – as long as he can remember, if…
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As the fifth of six children in her family, 11-year-old Hannah Cate has always been surrounded by a lot of love and support. But her life has not been easy. Not by a long shot. Born with Downs Syndrome, she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia when she was just six years old….
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Josiah was only two years old when he got his Team Summer gift from Summer. Now four years old, he just gave his first Team Summer gift…to three-year-old Elijah! The two boys have a lot in common. Both were diagnosed at the same age, just under 2, with the same disease, neuroblastoma – which is…
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When 17-year-old Rowan left for her job this summer to be a counsellor for girls at Camp Seafarer in Arapahoe, North Carolina, she knew she wanted to make a difference. She found out that the camp was holding a special session later in the summer for families of cancer survivors, and she began searching for…
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Meet the latest Team Summer kid! Kaylee is only 21 months, but she is already full of personality! On August 1st of this year, her parents got the shocking news that Kaylee had cancer – leukemia. Her mom, Duffy, told us that she “will never forget the diagnosis day and how your world just stops.”…
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Remember Lauren, the 19-year-old girl who was diagnosed with leukemia just after she started her sophomore year of college and had to drop out? We thought you’d like to know what she’s been up to! Despite all the debilitating treatments that Lauren has had to endure, her enthusiastic spirit remains untouched. She was so grateful…
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About a month ago, Brooke and Hannah (the two girls in the middle of the top row), friends of Summer’s from Riverwood High School, called Team Summer to say that they were planning a Team Summer fundraiser to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Summer’s passing. On their own, they found someone to make Team Summer…
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Reid just had his Bar Mitzvah! Sure, he wanted to have a big party, but he also wanted to give back, too. He had heard of Team Summer through school and wanted to help. Unfortunately, Reid is all too familiar with cancer. His dad has been battling it for a year and a half. What Reid…
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One year ago today, Summer Dale, the founder of Team Summer, lost her battle with cancer. Yesterday, I, her mother, Lynne Dale, was privileged to be asked to speak at my church about her loss and my faith. Here’s what I said, and it is an answer to the question of how I am doing…one…
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Sydney, who just turned 14, recently got a very special Team Summer gift! She is having a tough time battling a recurrence of osteosarcoma, which has shown up again as a tumor on her spine. If you met Sydney, you would immediately be struck by her poise and grace. Already 5’8″, it’s no surprise that…
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