The cream of the crop: Team Awards
Team awards help drive the friendly competition that makes each year better than the last!
Numbers for awards are calculated for registrations and donations received by a specific date. Team members may continue to register and raise funds up until the day of the Susan G. Komen Southern Arizona Race for the Cure®. However, any registrations or funds collected after the cut-off date will not be considered for award calculation purposes.
We present awards for:
Largest Team in Each Category
Largest Team Percent Increase
For teams who participated in last year's Komen Southern Arizona Race and are back and larger than ever!
Best Team T-shirts
Create your own T-shirts! Whatever you can think of. Your imagination is the limit!
For t-shirt contest guidelines please click here.
Most Collected Pledges/Donations as a Team
Both online and offline donations considered. Encourage team members to email their personal web pages to friends and family. Check out our Friends Pledge Program for more on pledges and donations.
Smile for your team photo!
These guidelines help streamline the process of taking all-important team photos to commemorate this remarkable event.
Teams from Official Race Sponsors
There will be a separate photographer for Race sponsors. The Team Captains can sign up for a time slot when he/she picks up the team packet or when the team packet is delivered.
All Other Teams
- For teams fewer than 40 participants: Photos will be on a first come/first serve basis within a specified window of time.
- For teams with 40 to 74 participants: The Team captain can sign up for a time slot when he/she picks up the team packet.
- For sponsors or teams of 75 or more participants: The Team captain will be called to schedule a photo time.
Follow the leader: Team Captain roles and responsibilities.
The team captain plays a very important role in building, recruiting and organizing a Race team! The list below outlines the roles and responsibilities of the team captain:
- Gain buy in from your organization to build a team and participate in the Race
- Either on-line or via paper entry form, register as a team captain and create your team name/identity
- Communicate to potential team members directions on how to join the team and register via on-line or paper entry (email, fax, fliers, newsletters)
- Recruit 10+ team members and assure they register
- Schedule an information session about the Race for potential and confirmed team members
- To have team members' packets included in team pickup, have them register by the specified date
- Pick up your team packets as directed
- Decide whether or not you and/or your team will raise funds
- Sign up for your team picture to be taken on Race day!
- Distribute team packets to individual team members - communicate to your team that YOU are responsible for this!
- Create your team's t-shirt
- Determine and communicate transportation, parking and group meeting information for the day of the Race
- Participate in the 10th annual Race!
What is in a team packet?
- Race participant bibs (race numbers) and safety pins
- Race for the Cure T-shirts and survivor shirts
- Chip (if competitive)
- Packing list that details team members that were packed
If you do not pick up your team's packets when directed, your team members will be re-classified and "sorted" alphabetically as individual registrants. Their packages will be available at individual packet pick up at a specified location or on race day at the "packet pickup" tent.
What else happens at team packet pick up?
- Sign up for your team picture
- Get Transportation and parking information
- Get help with determining your team meeting location (map of venue)
- Answers to last minute questions
- Visit the Komen Shop
