Kohl's Champions

07/11/2024

Football season is just around the corner, and we're thrilled to announce the official rebrand of the Kick-It Champions to Kohl’s Champions! 🏈🏆

Thanks to our incredible partner Kohl's Professional Kicking, Punting, and Snapping Camps, we're stepping up our game in the fight against childhood cancer. The Kohl's Champions program empowers football players to dedicate their seasons to childhood cancer research. Join us in for an exhilarating season of using the power of football to make a difference!🍋💛

For more information, check out AlexsLemonade.org/Kohls-Champions

12/10/2023

Kick-It Highlight: Jack's SNAP OUT Cancer Campaign 🏈

"Cancer has affected my community, my teammates, and their families so I want to do what I can to help find a cure for this horrible disease," says Jack Treutelaar of the Libertyville Wildcats.

By collecting pledges throughout football season and hosting lemonade stands, Jack has raised over $18,000 for childhood cancer research within two seasons! Thank you for your support, Jack! Go Wildcats!

05/18/2023

Turn every baseball game into a home run for kids with cancer through ALSF’s Champion for Kids with Cancer! This program is a great way to make any sport you love count for more than the championship title: https://www.alexslemonade.org/kickit/choose-champions https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qg-PoL3xQPc

05/01/2023

It's a new month & a new round of birthdays to celebrate! You can help kids with cancer this year with a Facebook birthday fundraiser- it's easy!
Click "Select Nonprofit" and search for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation> facebook.com/fundraisers/

01/28/2023

At The every year, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) recognizes its dedicated supporters who champion our cause by presenting recipients with the Alex Scott Crystal Cup Award. At the event tonight, ALSF is proud to award the Crystal Cup Award to Jamie and Charlene Kohl of Kohl's Kicking Camps.

On and off the field, Jamie and Charlene Kohl know the name of the game when it comes to fighting childhood cancer: passion and contribution. So, naturally, when the partnership in 2014 formed between their professional athletic camps and Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) it felt like a real win-win. Jamie Kohl is founder and director of Kohl’s Kicking Camps, the premier training program for football kickers, punters and long snappers across the U.S.

His wife, Charlene, helps him run these camps every year. Together, the pair not only encourage young athletes to improve their skills, but also to make an impact with their platform. The Kick-It Champions program started when one camper – a high school kicker and cancer survivor – brought his idea to fundraise for childhood cancer research through kicking to the camp. The idea was simple: pledge a dollar amount for each point a kicker makes in games.

Today, the Kohls put an emphasis on the program at the camp’s introduction, presenting it as an opportunity for kickers to use their passion for the sport to contribute to a good cause. In the last six years, hundreds of kickers, long snappers and punters have helped raise more than $1.4 million for childhood cancer research.

The Kohls’ support of ALSF’s mission to empower student athletes to help cure childhood cancer is why ALSF is proud to present Jamie and Charlene Kohl with the 2023 Alex Scott Crystal Cup Award.

01/27/2023

01/19/2023

Kick-It is proud to help carry on Alex's legacy as a program of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation 💛

My daughter Alex would be turning 27 years old today.

As I reflect on her birthday it's always a time of “what if?” What if she had survived? What would she be like today? So much about her was yet to be known. But I know with certainty the legacy she left and I'm grateful for it. I consider myself very lucky to remember Alex in such a positive and inspiring way through “her lemonade stand,” one cup at a time!

For Alex, childhood cancer meant a lifetime of hardships — endless medical procedures and uncertainty, pain, the lack of any sort of childhood normalcy, and for Alex, childhood cancer meant ultimately missing the opportunity to grow up.

Despite all the awful hard stuff, Alex‘s life was a gift and remembering her beautiful life is a gift, too. Alex certainly gave me a multitude of memories and lifetime of joy. Even beyond her legacy of hope for other children, she gave me many wonderful memories, so many shared moments, and a huge personality that left her mark on my soul forever. I'm forever grateful to her and for her life — a life that has given the opportunity at life to other kids like Edie, Zack, Philip, and countless other kids who have fought their battles and won thanks to research funded by the legacy Alex created.

I hope today, if you knew Alex or were inspired by her, you will share your comments on our social media posts.

This mom’s heart can always use some happy thoughts on this difficult day.

And to Alex, my sweet girl, I say happy birthday. I miss you and love you. You were a treasure.

Xoxo,

Mom

Read the full message by Liz Scott, Alex's Mom and Co-Executive Director of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, on the Childhood Cancer Blog >> https://bit.ly/3WkSEXZ

12/31/2022

Today is your last chance in 2022 to support kids like Philip and create a future free of childhood cancer.

Donate to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation now and make a lasting impact for all families affected by this disease 🎗

12/07/2022

This fall, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) teamed up with dedicated athletes across the country to help make a difference for kids with cancer through the sport they love.

We are so grateful for all that our Kick-It Champions did to support families and childhood cancer research, including raising more than $150,000! We thank all the athletes that helped ALSF kick childhood cancer this season!

11/27/2022

Athletes of any age can dedicate their season to kids with cancer. As a Kick-It Champion or Champion for Kids with Cancer, you can turn your accomplishments into funds for impactful childhood cancer research across all sports.

Blake Craig of LN Eagles Football and Kohl's Kicking Camps was proud to participate as a Kick-It Champion to support Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation this season.

Learn more about getting involved in the fight against childhood cancer as an athlete at Kick-It.org