About Transplant Athletics

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Our goals are to increase public awareness of the critical need for organ donation, to demonstrate the success of transplantation and to increase awareness in the transplant community on the benefits of fitness and well-being through transplant athletic programs.

The success of transplant athletics--specifically, the U.S. Transplant Games and the U.S. Winter Transplant Games--has created new opportunities to demonstrate the success of transplantation and the critical need for additional donors. The transplant community has joined efforts to initiate successful programs that celebrate the rehabilitation of formerly chronically ill individuals who, through the lifesaving therapy of transplantation, are able to live full and productive lives. The Transplant Games allow recipients to test the challenges of human potential through the arena of athletic competition. The enthusiasm of the athletes has led to the emergence of local, state and regional activities, all of which publicize the fact that transplants do work.

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