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Each week during the college football season we will feature a player who is an officer for an Uplifting Athletes Chapter for our Beyond the Trophy series. Name: Joe Spivak College: Northwestern Wildcats Height, weight, class, position: 6-0, 290-pound, junior, defensive tackle High School: Montini Catholic in Darien, Ill. About Joe: The junior came to Northwestern […] Continue Reading »

Maryland is off to a 2-0 start, and the Terrapins offense is setting plenty of school records in the process. The opening victory over Howard, where the Terps scored 79 points, was no surprise at all. But following that up with 63 against previously ranked Syracuse turned plenty of heads in Week 2 of the […] Continue Reading »

Each week during the college football season we will feature a player who is an officer for an Uplifting Athletes Chapter for our Beyond the Trophy series. Name: Bobby Walker College: University of Illinois Height, weight, class, position: 6-4, 240-pound, senior, tight end High School: Loyola Academy in Golf, Ill. About Bobby: A former walk-on who […] Continue Reading »

Terrell Johnson hauled in a 35-yard touchdown pass with 77 seconds remaining and Trevor Thompson nailed the extra point to help Saint Francis win its season opener in come-from-behind fashion on the road at Lehigh by a point. The Red Flash victory wasn’t without plenty of late drama, though. Lehigh moved the ball down the […] Continue Reading »

Each week during the college football season we will feature a player who is an officer for an Uplifting Athletes Chapter for our Beyond the Trophy series. Name: Jorge Portorreal College: Lehigh University Height, weight, class, position: 5-11, 190, junior, wide receiver High School: St. Peter’s Prep in Union, N.J. About Jorge: After two seasons with […] Continue Reading »

For more than five years, Dr. David Fajgenbaum has been a friend, mentor, advisor, inspiration and partner to Uplifting Athletes and the Rare Disease Community. Dr. Fajgenbaum was a recipient of one of the five research grants awarded at the inaugural Uplifting Athletes Young Investigator Draft in 2018. The research organization he helped launch, Castleman […] Continue Reading »

Over the course of five months, earlier this year, a record 21 members of the Uplifting Athletes’ chapter network held our signature event, Lift For Life, to raise awareness and funds in support of the Rare Disease Community. Lift For Life 2019 was conducted in two phases. It started in Philadelphia with Penn on February […] Continue Reading »

Uplifting Athletes is excited to welcome Trey Klock to our team in the role of Chapter Success Manager. In 2015, as a college football student-athlete, Trey founded the Georgia Tech Chapter of Uplifting Athletes and, when he transferred to Northwestern, he joined the leadership team of the Wildcats’ Chapter. His passion for the Rare Disease […] Continue Reading »

Phase 2 of Uplifting Athletes’ network of chapters Lift For Life season was culminated with Rare Road Trip 2019. In the spring, seven of our chapters held these signature events to support our mission to inspire the Rare Disease Community with hope through the power of sport. Those seven schools set the table for the […] Continue Reading »

This story about Uplifting Athletes Executive Director Rob Long was written by Neil Geoghegan and published on July 19, 2019 on papreplive.com. We are re-publishing this story as it was originally presented and with full permission. As birthdays go, Rob Long’s 22nd was certainly memorable. But unlike all of the others, it was filled with […] Continue Reading »