Press Releases

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

Rich Froning, professional CrossFit athlete and four-time winner of the Fittest Man on Earth title (2011-2014), recorded a video to congratulate the winners of the Donor Games 3-Rep Trap Bar Deadlift 2022 Open, a virtual competition that took place February 16–23, 2022. “Donor Games athletes, just want to say awesome job and congratulations on a … Read More

Twenty kidney donors reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro on March 10, World Kidney Day, demonstrating that donating a kidney has no negative impact on a donor’s health and fitness. The story was featured on Good Morning America. To watch the feature, click here. Only 50% of the 30,000 people per year who attempt to … Read More