10th Swimming Relay Supporting Education Faculty Member Lisa Bauer
This year’s Hour of Power Relay got personal.
Wilmington College’s swimming team has sponsored the national fundraising event in past years with money received going in support of cancer research at the University of Chicago. This year’s relay Tuesday evening (Nov. 10) was for one of WC’s own.
(Pictured) Wilmington College students, faculty and staff, along with swimmers from Clinton County Swim Youth Swim Program and Wilmington and Clinton-Massie high schools, participate in the Hour of Power.
Lisa Bauer, associate professor of education, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. While she is being treated to bring the disease under control, she has been unable to do this semester what she loves — teaching future teachers at Wilmington College.
Her sister, Karin Dyke, assistant professor of education, also has taken a leave from teaching in order to better serve as a caregiver. Both were in attendance at the event.
Swim coach Trip Breen and his team wanted to help Bauer through the Hour Of Power Relay. Donations were collected throughout the past week and relay teams raised funds to compete.
“Lisa and Karin are two beloved education professors of the Wilmington College family,” he said. “As a campus community, we want to help offset Lisa’s expenses as well as show her and her family that we care.”
A cheering crowd welcomed the sisters to the relay at the College natatorium. WC students, faculty and staff, as well as swimmers from the Clinton County Youth Swim Program and Wilmington and Clinton-Massie high schools, joined WC swim team members in the six-lane relay that went full-throttle for 60 minutes.
“It’s this type of support that Lisa and Karin need right now,” said Erika Goodwin, vice president for academic affairs. “This is one of those things that makes Wilmington College a special place.”
Across the nation, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m., thousands of athletes from collegiate, high school and club swim teams also participated in the 10th annual Ted Mullin “Leave It in the Pool” Hour of Power Relay. Mullen, a 2006 alumnus and swimmer from Carleton College in Minnesota succumbed to sarcoma, a soft-tissue form of cancer. The annual relay is held in his memory as a means for increasing awareness of that rare form of cancer and raising funds for research.
