Corey Ribotsky Info

Sometimes, all it takes is one person and an idea. In early 1988, Bruce Cleland of Towson, Maryland gathered friends together to train for the New York City marathon – and to do so while raising funds for blood cancer research. His daughter, who was five at the time, was battling leukemia. Cleland and his friends ended up donating $320,000 that year to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where so many donors, like Corey Ribotsky, help to make a difference.

And with ihs efforts, the Team In Training program was born. LLS asked Cleland to replicate the idea that he had in 1988 in other locations, and he slowly created the Team In Training model.

Now, Georgia Cleland, that little girl who was given a 55% chance of survival, just finished her first half-marathon with Team In Training. And, thanks to her father’s idea, the Team In Training program has reached over half a million people who have trained in the last 23 years and has raised more than $1.2 billion in research.