Rally for Rhyan, a local pediatric cancer research fund, raised $65,000 on Feb. 13 during their sixth annual event with the MU Men’s Basketball team.
Brad Loos, MU assistant athletic director, and his wife, Jen Loos, founded Rally for Rhyan after their daughter, Rhyan’s, stage IV neuroblastoma diagnosis in 2015. At the time, Brad served as MU’s assistant men s basketball coach, and in spring 2016, the team began a trend that would go on to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for pediatric cancer research: the Rally for Rhyan game.
Last year, the event alone raised $80,000 for the organization through donations and t-shirt sales. The organization has raised over half a million dollars since its founding. Their funding goal this year dropped to $20,000 because of the pandemic. However, before game day, they had exceeded their goal by $5,000.