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Article: Athletes put heart, soul into Transplant Games Bringing organ donation into spotlight is a goal; Wisconsin Athletes Jack Beres, 54, Brookfield, heart transplant (St. Luke's Medical Center), swimming and bowling. Andy Biba, 59, Madison, kidney (UW Hospital), golf, road running. Thu Blanke, 35, Plymouth, liver (Froedtert Hospital), track & field. Dawn Claussen, 33, Cedar Grove, kidney (Froedtert), bowling, racewalk, softball throw. Ron Degolier, 53, Kenosha, kidney (Froedtert), cycling. Jay Dolfin, 48, Marshall, liver (UW Hospital), swimming, table tennis. Charles Eastwood, 44, Verona, kidney (UW Hospital), badminton, bowling, softball, shotput, 3-on-3 basketball. Jeff Geboy, 22, West Allis, heart (St. Luke's), bowling, 3-on-3 basketball. John Hayes, 50, Milwaukee, heart (Milwaukee Medical Complex), swimming, track & field, 3-on-3 basketball, softball throw. Herb Heneman, 52, Middleton, liver (UW Hospital), swimming. Joe Herbert, 51, Milwaukee, bone marrow (Froedtert), bowling, racewalk, table tennis. Mary Lou Hoepner, 24, West Bend, kidney (Froedtert), bowling. Nancy Jachna, 45, Union Grove, liver (Froedtert), bowling, table tennis. Jan Jankowski, 53, Madison, kidney pancreas (UW Hospital), cycling, swimming. Donna Krueger, 40, West Allis, heart (St. Luke's), bowling. Mary Kurian, 33, Madison, kidney (UW Hospital), road run, racewalk, track & field. Jeff Lee, 27, Milwaukee, kidney (Froedtert), golf, bowling. Richard Loberger, 61, Platteville, heart (UW Hospital), bowling, softball throw. Wayne Mueller, 46, West Allis, kidney (Froedtert), bowling. Dean Palmer, 57, Green Bay, kidney (UW Hospital), cycling. Gerard Pebler, 39, Oregon, kidney (Mayo Clinic), road run, track & field, softball throw. Carol Raich, 43, Milwaukee, bilateral lung (UW Hospital), bowling. Emil Schuster, 59, Sheboygan, kidney (Froedtert), golf, bowling. Todd Seeley, 26, Union Grove, kidney (Froedtert), cycling. Stan Tonn, 43, Watertown, kidney (UW Hospital), cycling, table tennis, 3-on-3 basketball.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1996
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If exercise is a hopeful act, the Transplant Games in Salt Lake
City this week might be the Olympics of Hope.
All 1,500 of its athletes, including 25 from Wisconsin, had to
face death, after all, just to qualify. Now they're contending in
10 sports, today through Sunday, for gold. Maybe they all deserve a
medal, Wisconsin team coordinator Barry Duncan says, but only the
fleetest and strongest get them.
That appetite to win is just a pretext, though, for an annual
trip to national and world games in alternate years, events that
celebrate a growing but rarely seen community.
Although the athletes might give their all, no one pretends to
give world-class performances. The Transplant Games ...
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