Fundraising Tourney Kicks Off In Nats Stadium
More than $380,000 raised in "Kyle's Kamp," a baseball tournament honoring 8-year-old leukemia patient
At this time last year, a few dozen teams from across the D.C. region were taking to fields in Vienna and across Fairfax County to play in the first-ever Kyle's Kamp Wood Bat baseball tournament, in honor of Kyle Hahne, a now-8-year-old diagnosed with leukemia in the fall of 2010. The three-day tournament for Kyle, the son of local baseball coach Rob Hahne and Madison High School teacher Kieran Hahne, raised more than $10,000 in its first run for the Children's National Medical Center for pediatric cancer care through individual and team donation and wood bat, T-shirt and food sales. Most of the teams gave a team tournament donation of anywhere between $75 to $300 in place of a tournament registration fee. What a difference a year can make…
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