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Darien Football Weightlifting Competition Raises Funds for Juvenile Diabetes Research
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February 29th wasn’t just any workout day in the Darien High School weight room for the football team — 60 players arrived ready to compete in a weightlifting fundraiser for a cause, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). — an announcement from the organizers
JDRF is the leading global organization funding Type 1 diabetes research, an autoimmune disease affecting millions of children and adults for which presently there is no cure. This is the seventhth year that DHS Football has held a player weightlifting competition to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. For four years prior to that, they sponsored teams for the JDRF walk. The cause was selected because it’s close to home for the team, with both players and players’ relatives being affected by the disease.