Join Team Hathaway-Sycamores in the L.A. Marathon

Get out your running shoes, Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services has been selected as an official charity for the 2013 L.A. Marathon!

Team Hathaway-Sycamores is raising money and awareness for the agency by running in the L.A. Big 5K, the L.A. Half Marathon Charity Relay and L.A. Marathon on March 16th and 17th. Our team includes five marathoners, three charity relay teams and 42 participants in the 5K! Many members are first time runners.

Click here to make a donation and show your support for our runners and for the children and youth they are all running to help. If you are interested in joining our team (registration is still open for the 5K and there are a few spaces available for the L.A. Half Marathon Charity Relay) or have any questions, please email Karen Hopkins. Karen will give you your special race registration code for the L.A. Half Marathon Charity Relay.

Show your support for Team Hathaway-Sycamores in the following events:

• L.A. Marathon (26.2 miles) – March 17, 2013
  The race begins at Dodger Stadium and ends in Santa Monica near the world famous pier.
• L.A. Half Marathon Charity Relay – March 17, 2013
  Teams of 2 runners will each complete 13.1 miles of the marathon course. The half marathon is only available to official charities so if you want to run a half marathon,  join team Hathaway-Sycamores!
• L.A. Big 5K (3.1 miles) – March 16, 2013
  Join thousands of runners and walkers at Dodgers Stadium for the annual 5K sponsored by Big 5 Sporting Goods.

Everyone on the team is doing it for the kids, including Luis Casas, who works in our School-Based Services. Luis ran his first marathon ten years ago when he was in high school with Students Run L.A., a program with the goal of inspiring at-risk youth through their participation in the L.A. Marathon. He has not run a marathon since, but decided to this year to support Hathaway-Sycamores and inspire the youth that he works with in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Luis has been a Youth Specialist with Hathaway-Sycamores for about a year working with troubled children in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Christopher Records will also be running in the marathon on Sunday for Team Hathaway-Sycamores. A special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Christopher has taught many Hathaway-Sycamores clients in his classroom over the years. He is well aware of all we do to help troubled youth and wanted to support the agency through the marathon.

Lucy Morales will be running in the Charity Relay of the L.A. Marathon. She ran the full marathon 8 years ago and decided to go back to running to support Hathaway-Sycamores, where she has worked for 13 years. Lucy wants to create more awareness of Hathaway-Sycamores and the work we do with children and families. Lucy’s twin sister will be running the full marathon, and they are looking forward to meeting up at the finish line to show off their medals!

To learn more about the L.A. Marathon, please go to www.lamarathon.com.

To make a donation and show your support our runners, please go http://www.imathlete.com/donate/Campaign.aspx?fCID=1601.