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Lax Stache Madness

Lax Stache Madness is an interactive online fundraiser encouraging student-athletes to TOSS their razors, GROW their mustaches, go HEAD to HEAD against teams country and RAISE money to HELP families.

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STACHE OFF AGAINST CANCER BRACKET CHALLENGE

Meet Our Heroes

Brett Kaden

Brett Kaden is a lacrosse player from New Castle, DE who is currently battling Leukemia.  He is being treated at the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE and is approaching the halfway mark in his 36-month treatment regimen.

Jestin Schulte 

Jestin Schulte is a lacrosse player from Grand Rapids, MI who is currently battling osteosarcoma. Recently, he underwent a 6 1/2 hour limb salvage surgery in which they replaced his femur with a cadaver bone. Jestin has begun a very long road to recovery that will encompass 10 cycles of chemotherapy, further treatment and intense physical therapy. Jestin is now mobile with the assistance of crutches and will be working toward becoming weight baring. He will also need to learn how to walk again.

David Alexander

David Alexander is a lacrosse player from Winchester, VA who was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive bone cancer called chondroblastic osteosarcoma. Upon evaluation and 10 rounds of unsuccessful treatment, specialists determined that Alexander would require a major surgery that would have amputated most of his lower body followed by lengthy hospitalizations and continued chemotherapy with only a 25% chance of survival. Facing these horrific odds and valuing quality of life, he made the courageous decision to stop his cancer treatments and find peace in his remaining time.

Wall of Whiskers

Flash Your Stache: 5 Ways to Show Off your Mustache

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Update your social profiles with your newly grown mustache

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Change your Venmo profile to Mustache Madness Logo – Venmo is a great way to collect donations

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Make your Fundraising page your own! Images of you or your favorite mustached celebrities

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Send a quick Snap Chat to your friends sporting your mustache and your campaign page

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If you’re attending class remotely, turn your camera on! Your mustache will start conversations about the cause

Milestones

2009
2010
2011
2012
2015
2017
2018
2019

2009

  • Ken Clausen starts Lacrosse Mustache Madness as Senior Project at the University of Virginia

2010

  • Ken partners with HEADstrong to focus charity component

2011

  • With the assistance of HF’s Pat Colleulori, Lax Stache Madness becomes a staple within NCAA Men’s Lacrosse

2012

  • Lacrosse Mustache Madness continues to grow, surpassing 100k in donations for the first time

2015

  • Lax Stache partners with Warrior/New Balance for exclusive line of gear featuring the stache in lime

2017

  • Lax Stache Madness raises most money to date, topping over $200k to improve lives affect by cancer

2018

  • For the first time in the history of the campaign, Lax Stache had over 4,000 individual donors participate

2019

  • Continuing the growth, that year saw 121 colleges and universities creating fundraising teams