Press Releases

The National Kidney Registry is excited to announce its latest sponsored event: an attempt by a team of living kidney donors to set a new world record and shatter the misperception that kidney donation imposes physical limits on donors. In May 2023, three mountaineers assisted by two support crew will attempt to break the current … Read More

The Donor Games 2022 Championship took place on Saturday, September 17, at Affinity Athletics in Stamford, Connecticut. It was another exciting competition, with many amazing performances and a thrilling three-way tiebreaker for 3rd place in the men’s division. Mimi Mahon, a consistent winner in past Open competitions and the 1st place finisher in the 2021 … Read More

The National Kidney Registry is thrilled to announce its latest kidney donor athlete sponsorship: Steve Wilson, a living kidney donor who will be competing in the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, October 6-8, 2022. Steve donated a kidney through the National Kidney Registry’s Family Voucher Program in February 2020 after seeing a Facebook post … Read More

The National Kidney Registry will hold the second annual Donor Games Championship on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at Affinity Athletics in Stamford, Connecticut. This year’s Donor Games Championship is by invitation only, with the majority of competitors being kidney donor athletes. Several kidney transplant recipients and transplant industry professionals will also compete. All competitors will … Read More

Matt Cavanaugh, an active duty US Army Strategist and living kidney donor, has completed the Georgia 2022 Race—the second race in the Racing the Planet 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series, a series of four races covered approximately 1,000 kilometers. Georgia 2022, a Special Edition of the Racing the Planet Ultramarathon, was held in the southwestern corner … Read More

Donor Games sponsored athlete David Ashley successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest in the early hours of Friday, May 13, 2022, the final peak in his 1 Kidney 7 Summits challenge. Dave started the 7 Summits challenge in June 2021 with a successful summit of Denali in Alaska, and through the remainder of 2021 … Read More

Matt Cavanaugh, an active duty US Army Strategist and living kidney donor, has completed the Namib Race—the first race in the Racing the Planet 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series, a series of four races covered approximately 1,000 kilometers. Matt completed the Namib Race on May 7, coming in fourth out of 33 people who finished all … Read More

On May 9, 2022, Dave Ashley, a living kidney donor athlete sponsored by the National Kidney Registry, will leave Mount Everest Base Camp for the final summit push. If all goes according to plan, Dave and his team will reach the 29,032-foot peak of Mount Everest in the early morning hours of May 13. Dave’s … Read More

Two living kidney donors—Dave Ashley, a double donor (kidney and liver) who is attempting to be the first living kidney donor to climb the Seven Summits within one year; and Molly Cropp, a firefighter from Colorado who donated a kidney just over a year ago—completed a modified version of the Donor Games Super Murph 2022 … Read More

Matt Cavanaugh, a kidney donor and active duty US Army Strategist who is being sponsored by the National Kidney Registry in his attempt to be the first living kidney donor to finish the full 4 Deserts race series, was a guest on the podcast C Tolle Run with Olympian Carrie Tollefson. Each week, Carrie, a … Read More