Team IL is a group of transplant recipients, living donors and donor family members from Illinois whose lives have been touched by organ donation and transplantation. Every two years they participate in the U.S. Transplant Games in order to promote organ donation and show that transplantation works.

 

 

Athletes: Recipients who have received lifesaving solid organ transplant or heterologous bone marrow transplants and are at least months post transplant.  

Living Donors: Those who have given the gift of life through living organ and tissue donation.

 Donor Families: Families whose loved ones gave the gift of life through organ and tissue donation after death.

 

 

Click this link to email us. Tell us who you are, where you live (you must live in Illinois), if you are a transplant recipient and if so, what kind of transplant. Or if you're a living donor or donor family member just let us know. We will contact you shortly.

 

 

The next U.S. Transplant Games will be held July 30th - August 4, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. The U.S. Transplant Games are held every two years on even years. The World Transplant Games are held every two years on the odd years.

 

 

Team Illinois is managed by a small group of volunteers and we are a part of the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois.

• Mary Schlereth, donor family member
• Brian Stiner, kidney recipient
• Bob & Ann Panek, parents of a heart recipient
• David Goldman, kidney & pancreas recipient
• Nicole Sisen, National Kidney Foundation of Illinois

 

Are you interested in participating on Team U.S.A for the 2009 World Games? Check out the World Games website: http://www.worldtransplantgames09.com

All questions regarding the World Games need to be directed to the National Kidney Foudnation at 800-622-9010