About Coach's Fitness Challenge
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Join us for Coach’s Fitness Challenge and show kids tackling childhood cancer that you are on their team.
It’s simple—log your fitness activities in September, and you’ll earn points while raising money and awareness for the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund so we can provide families with financial, emotional and practical support as they face the unthinkable.
Here's how it works:
- Register for $20 and join a team. Invite your friends to join too because this event is open to the public!
- Log your workouts.
- Earn points for fitness activities, fundraising, recruiting friends, and social media engagement.
- Win prizes. There are multiple prizes available for the highest-scoring individuals and teams across several categories, so get moving!
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How to Earn Points
This year, there are several ways to earn points during Coach's Fitness Challenge; by participating in a fitness activity, fundraising, recruiting friends to join, uploading photos/videos and tagging us on social media with the hashtag #ShowUsYourTeam.
Points are awarded as follows:
- Earn 100 points for uploading a photo or video on your fundraising page and using #ShowUsYourTeam on Jay Fund Day, Sept. 5
- Earn 5 points for each minute of activity completed. No minimum or maximum points per day!
- Earn 10 points for every dollar a participant raises including self-made donations (NOTE: team donations that are not allocated to a participant will result in team points)
- Earn 25 points for every photo/video posted/uploaded to OneCause
- Earn 50 points for every friend recruited to join through your account
This year, there are several ways to earn points during Coach's Fitness Challenge; by participating in a fitness activity, fundraising, recruiting friends to join, uploading photos/videos and tagging us on social media with the hashtag #ShowUsYourTeam.
Points are awarded as follows:
- Earn 100 points for uploading a photo or video on your fundraising page and using #ShowUsYourTeam on Jay Fund Day, Sept. 5
- Earn 5 points for each minute of activity completed. No minimum or maximum points per day!
- Earn 10 points for every dollar a participant raises including self-made donations (NOTE: team donations that are not allocated to a participant will result in team points)
- Earn 25 points for every photo/video posted/uploaded to OneCause
- Earn 50 points for every friend recruited to join through your account
Why Participate?
When you join Coach's Fitness Challenge, you can invite your family, friends and colleagues to compete alongside you. Together you can have an even greater impact on families tackling childhood cancer. Your participation will help provide financial, emotional and practical support.
- Financial Support: Helps with mortgage bills, rent, utilities, phone, food, and other household expenses. It provides a financial game plan for families with tools like financial literacy workshops and financial coaching.
- Emotional Support: Hosts special events so families, patients, caregivers and siblings can come together with others facing the same challenges.
- Practical Support: Supports treatment facilities to improve quality of life for the patient and their families.
About the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation is named for Jay McGillis, who was diagnosed with leukemia while playing football under Coach Coughlin at Boston College. Coach admired the red-headed strong side safety for his incredible work ethic and intense play.
In the eight months between Jay’s diagnosis and the day he lost his battle with cancer, the Coughlin family saw firsthand the physical, emotional and financial strains the illness caused Jay’s family. Coach Coughlin vowed that if he ever had the chance, he would create a way to help families with children battling cancer.
