Press Releases

The Living Donor Support Foundation (LDSF) sponsored kidney transplant recipient and Donor Games athlete Danielle Fiorito to compete at the 2026 Transplant Football World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany, where she earned two major honors: Women’s MVP and the Golden Boot, awarded for her scoring performance. The Transplant Football World Cup brought together transplant recipients from … Read More

Congratulations to all the athletes who competed in the 2026 Donor Games Championship. This year, 21 elite donor and recipient athletes traveled to Connecticut to showcase their incredible health and fitness at our sixth annual Championship. The athletes gave their all, and by the end of the event, two new champions had emerged. Men’s Division … Read More

Sixteen Donor Games athletes showcased their elite fitness as part of the opening day of competition at the 2026 Transplant Games of America. Competing in the Heavy Murph workout, kidney and liver donors, along with transplant recipients from across the country, demonstrated that organ donation does not hinder human performance. The competition was won by Danielle … Read More

The National Kidney Registry Renal Warriors crossed the finish line of the 300+ mile Source to City Rat Race in downtown Manhattan on Monday, September 22, 2025. The team of four kidney transplant recipients and seven living kidney donors began their journey four days earlier in Lake Placid with a technical and grueling 18-mile hike … Read More

Kidney transplant recipient and Donor Games athlete Abigail Beckman-Green delivered an extraordinary performance at the 2025 World Transplant Games in Dresden, Germany, August 17–24, bringing home five gold medals, two silver medals, and setting four new world records. “Competing at the World Transplant Games was a great experience,” Beckman-Green said. “This year, in addition to … Read More

Congratulations to all the athletes who participated in the Donor Games 2025 Championship last Saturday. We had 20 top athletes from around the country competing. The competitive intensity was at a level that we have never seen before, with many of the finishing times separated by just a few seconds or a few reps. Men’s … Read More

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is proud to sponsor a team of 11 transplant recipients and donors as they take on the grueling Rat Race: Source to City, a 316‑mile multisport traverse of the Hudson River Valley, beginning at the river’s source in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and ending in Battery Park, … Read More

Kidney transplant recipient and Donor Games athlete Abigail Beckman-Green will represent Team USA at the 2025 World Transplant Games, held August 17–24 in Dresden, Germany, her second appearance at the global event. Beckman-Green received her kidney transplant in August 2016 at the University of Michigan Transplant Center. Her aunt, Karen Green, donated her kidney after … Read More

The National Kidney Registry is pleased to announce its first-ever Donor Games Lakes Regional competition to showcase the fitness of living kidney and liver donors and raise awareness about the need for living donors nationwide. The 2025 Lakes Regional will be held at Adventure Awaits CrossFit, 3200 Schofield Ave, Weston, WI, on June 21, 2025 … Read More

On September 22, 2024, living kidney donor Elizabeth Young competed in the Women’s Ironman World Championship in Nice, France. Young’s participating in the event was sponsored by the National Kidney Registry. Young donated a kidney to a stranger in 2022. She has completed 12 Ironman competitions, six of them since her donation. She completed the … Read More