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Thank you for donating to our cause last year. Thanks to your donation, we met our fundraising goal and sent 10 athletes to nationals. This year, we have 15 athletes with the drive to take the national stage. Fortunately, national championships is in Arizona this year instead of Alabama. This means our travel costs will be lower, and actually offset our additional registration costs. Consequently, our fundraising goal remains the same.
We believe it is very important to send our emerging athletes to nationals so they can become leaders of the team in the future. So they can continue fostering a sense of community and keep making triathlon the team that we all love. Even if you no longer have a direct connection to someone on the current roster, we hope you support the team that helped shape their college experience.
Additionally, we have an anonymous donor who has generously offered to double every donation we receive in order to help us reach our $5000 goal. So this year the small donations carry more weight than ever before, and our team would be very grateful for your continued support. Below you can find a link to our updated campaign page. Whether or not you decide to donate again this year, thank you for supporting our team.
https://spark.ucla.edu/amb/rileydavis
-Riley
Thank you so much for helping our team get to nationals last year! Since you supported our journey last year, we wanted to give you a few team updates.
Nationals was obviously the conclusion to our race season, but that didn't mean we stopped working. After a week or two of rest we get bored without training, so it wasn't hard to get back into the grind. Furthermore, we've found an additional motivator to get us out the door for a ride or a run. Over summer our Vice President, Madeline Foo, introduced our team to an app called "PULLL" which rewards your exercise by donating funds to cancer research. So every time we put something up on STRAVA (often twice a day), the many companies which finance PULLL make a donation. Not that we needed this motivator to keep up our lifestyle, but it certainly didn't hurt. If you bike, run, or walk, I encourage you to get this app for yourself.
Perhaps the most notable achievement in our "off-season" was made by Josh Archer. Josh raced his first Ironman, won his age group, and qualified for Kona. You can't really ask for a more impressive debut race. His performance, all the hard work that made it possible, and all the hard work he continues to bring to the team motivates all of us.
It turns out this motivation was contagious as well, because our team has grown significantly this season. Last year our trainer sets (the least favorite activity for many athletes) hardly drew a crowd. This year we routinely run out of trainers. We're excited to see how all these new athletes do once our race season begins next month; they've certainly put in the time and effort, it will be great to see them collect their rewards on race day.
Until then, if you'd like more updates from your favorite #funfitflirty triathlon team, follow our Instagram @uclatri. Thank you again for your support, and we hope to see you at our future races!
Riley
Thanks to all of our wonderful donors, we were able to exceed our goal and finish with $5069! To everyone who donated, thank you!
Today, as we continued our Nationals prep with more race-bike fitting, we were very happy to know that our Nationals journey was made much easier because of your generosity.
Thank you again from everyone on the UCLA Triathlon Team!
Hello Triathlon Fans and Triathletes,
Thank you so much to the 34 donors who have helped us reach 87% of our goal!
We are now just one week away from when our campaign closes. If you have already donated (thank you!) then please share our Nationals goal by email, strava, or any other means, and watch out for fun new content on our social media platforms. If you have not donated already, we would love for you to do so at https://spark.ucla.edu/triathlon!
Thank you for your wonderful help and happy spring break!
-The UCLA Triathlon Club
It's tough to eat during the race, but we'll refuel during the bike leg if you deliver the goods. Help us complete our race by feeding us with some in-race nutrition.
As a team we are so committed to eating burritos that we are the Breakfast Burrito Club! So provide a racer with a much-loved burrito meal the night before the race!
Alabama is far away from Los Angeles but you can help get a bike on its way! By donating $25 we will be 300 miles closer to dominating on the bike course!
With your donation of $50, you'll cover half of the costs for Nationals registration. And as everyone knows, to have a good race, you must start the race!
At $150 we can send one bike all the way to Nationals ... and all the way back to LA! We love our bikes and want them to go wherever we go.
Send one racer to Nationals by covering both their bike transportation and their registration costs! We're ready to go!
Send an entire relay team of 4 racers to Nationals! Registration and bike transportation included!
Impressive! You just sent 8 UCLA triathletes to Nationals! That's almost half of our Nationals team, woohoo!