Recognition Awards

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Jerry Cound Outstanding Male and Female Awards:
Presented to one male and one female competitor who demonstrate superior athletic achievements.

Mickey Mantle Courage Award:
Recognizes the transplant athlete who has overcome the greatest challenges to participate in the Transplant Games.

Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Donor Care Award:
Presented in recognition of excellence in the care and support of families who have donated their loved ones' organs and/or tissues. Individuals and/or organizations may be nominated.

transAction Council's Making Lives Better Award:
Presented to someone who embodies the mission of the National Kidney Foundation of Making Lives Better, through acting as a mentor to those traveling on the transplant journey.

Team Cup:
Awarded to the team of 25 or more athletes who has collectively won the most medals per capita and demonstrate team spirit and good sportsmanship throughout the Games.

Wendy Marx Award for Organ Donor Awareness:
The National Kidney Foundation mourns the recent death of Wendy Marx, two-time liver transplant recipient and longtime friend of the NKF. Wendy was committed to promoting the critical need for organ and tissue donation. She co-founded the Wendy Marx Foundation for Organ Donor Awareness in 1990, the same year that she, her family and Olympic champion Carl Lewis, a family friend, helped the NKF launch the U.S. Transplant Games. The NKF has established the Wendy Marx Award for Organ Donor Awareness to be presented during every U.S. Transplant Games. The first awards, to be given during the 2004 Games, will go to one youth and one adult transplant athlete who have taken their personal experience with transplantation and used it to increase public awareness of the desperate need for organ and tissue donation.

Recognition Awards

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