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TEAM USA 2005
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The following 2005 World Transplant Games information has been received from the local organizing committee (LOC) in Canada and adapted specifically for Team USA participants. If you have any questions about the World Transplant Games or about being a part of Team USA, please feel free to contact Team USA Headquarters. Additional information about the Living Donor/Donor Family Program; Visitor Program (short term stay) and Tours; rates for additional accommodation nights, including meals; etc. will be provided as it becomes available from the LOC.
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UPDATE - August 22, 2005:
UPDATE - May 26, 2005:
- Team USA 2005 Competitor Roster (*PDF 126KB)
UPDATE - February 22, 2005:
- REGISTRATION. Registration is closed.
- USER'S GUIDE.The Canadian organizers have prepared a document to help orient you to the online registration form and provide instructions. Click here (
2.1MB) to download this information. Please note that the Canadian LOC offices will be closed when registration opens, so customer service will not be available until Monday, January 3rd at 9am. If you should experience technical difficulty while trying to register over the weekend, feel free to email transplant@kidney.org and Team USA Managers will help facilitate getting you registered.
- ROOMMATES & DOUBLES PARTNERS. Team USA managers will not pair individuals to compete or room together. Individuals may be housed in a single or double-bedded room. If you are placed in a double room and have not specified the name of your roommate, the London local organizing committee may assign a fellow team member to room with you. If you are looking for a doubles partner or roommate, please contact Team USA Headquarters (E-mail: transplant@kidney.org; Phone: 800-622-9010) with your Name, Email address and Phone Number. Also provide a brief "want ad" or profile with any information about you that may be helpful to a potential partner or roommate, such as:
* Gender
* Age/age group
* City, State where you reside
* Transplanted organ
* Number of Transplant Games you have attended
* Previous achievements in your area of sport (If looking for a doubles partner)
* Additional Information: Whether or not you snore (if looking for a roommate), early bird vs. night hawk, etc…
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR AD MAY BE EDITED
Your ad will be posted on the Team USA Web site. However, in order to maintain your privacy, your contact information will not be posted openly on the site. The ad will be posted along with an identification code. If someone is interested in partnering and/or rooming with you, they will contact the Team USA office with appropriate ad identification code and we will provide them with your name, email address and phone number to contact you directly to work out the details. BOTH PARTIES will be required to contact Team USA Headquarters identifying each other as their respective partner or roommate, if applicable. However, if you select doubles as an event with no partner and none is found by the registration deadline, you will be scratched from doubles and will not be allowed to add an additional event. Please be sure to check the preliminary schedule of events to make sure the events you sign up for do not conflict with each other.
Roommates - Want Ads
Doubles Partner - Want Ads
- DONOR FAMILY PROGRAM. The donor family program is still being developed. Details are expected from the Canadian LOC in early February.
- MEDICAL CONFERENCE. Additional information about the medical conference will be provided as soon as it becomes available from the Canadian LOC. A medical symposium is scheduled for Saturday, July 16th (one day event) and is geared to medical professionals of the transplant community and the theme is focused on “transplantation and sport”. An additional fee will be required to attend this program.
- REGISTRATION FEES. All athletes will be REQUIRED to purchase the full World Transplant Games (WTG) Registration Package. Additional information is forthcoming from the Canadian Local Organizing Committee regarding Visitor's Packages. The Visitor’s package is designed for those persons who would like to attend the Games in London for a few days. A sport travel company, CSTT Sport Management International has put together a series of hotel rates at hotel properties in London. The sport travel company will also offer a shuttle transportation service each day to the various sport venues providing there are enough interested participants. The system will be a pay per use basis. Those that attend the Games through the Visitor’s Program are not accredited for the Games and will not be allowed to participate in the Games accommodations - food service program, transportation program or the Gala Dinner. Those that do not register for the Games, will also not be transported to London from the International airports in Detroit or Toronto.
- PAYMENT. Note: Your registration acknowledgment with reflect your registration in Canadian Dollars. Click here for the formula to calculate your registration fees in U.S. Dollars as a member of Team USA
Whether you’re nationally ranked or a recreational athlete, this is your time to show the world that transplantation works! Over 2,000 transplant recipients, accompanying friends and family members are expected to attend the nine-day, multi-sport celebration in Canada, including a special sports program for child recipients. Competition in the World Transplant Games is open to all persons who have received a life-supporting organ transplant more than a year before the Games.
IMPORTANT NOTE
The Canadian local organizing committee can host up to 2,150 participants in total; therefore, there will be two registration phases for all participants to ensure that each country has an equal opportunity to register. The LOC has announced that registration will be conducted online beginning on January 1, 2005 (go to www.2005wtg.london.ca). After you’ve registered online for the Games, full payment will then need to be forwarded to Team USA Headquarters in order to complete your registration. Contact the Team USA office if you are not able to register online and/or you would prefer to submit a paper registration. Paper registration forms will be made available by the LOC.
Team USA will be limited to 100 athletes and 50 family members/friends during the first registration period or Phase 1 (January 1 – February 28, 2005). Team USA registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis (all fees must be paid in full to guarantee placement).
Transplant recipients who are part of the National Kidney Foundation’s Elite Athlete Program (EAP) will be guaranteed a position on Team USA 2005. EAP athletes include the Jerry Cound Outstanding Male and Female athletes from the 2004 U.S. Transplant Games—Padraic McCole of Rosemont, Pennsylvania and Melissa Choi Salvador of Portland, Oregon— who will be sponsored by NKF/National. In addition, we are very pleased to announce that for the first time, the following local teams have opted to elect and provide a full or partial sponsorships for their respective Outstanding Male and Female Athletes as part of the local EAP:
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Those who register for Team USA after the 100-athlete and/or 50-spectator limit has been reached will be waitlisted in the order that their registration and full payment were received. If additional space becomes available during the second registration period or Phase 2 (March 15 - April 29, 2005) registrations will be submitted in the order in which they were waitlisted.
