Washington, D.C. - Christopher and Dodge Suprun received the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Hero Award. The award was for their work bringing baseball and other sports to children with cancer. The father-son pair are founding members of Strike Out Kids Cancer Foundation (https://www.kkidscancer.org/).
Christopher Suprun and Dodge Suprun are 3rd and 2nd from the far right.
The two share a mutual passion for baseball and service in their community.
In 2016, at age twelve, Dodge Suprun remembered his baseball team mate and friend Ben. Ben developed brain cancer as a six year old. Dodge would form Strike Out Kids Cancer Foundation with his father. The goal was to bring baseball to children in hospitals with cancer. The mission grew to any sport and any fragile medical condition.
Since then they brought baseball games to children across the United States.
“It is an honor to receive a nomination at all,” said Dodge Suprun.
He continued, “the recognition should go to all the kids fighting cancer every day."
"Bringing the kids who wants another chance to play the game too many take for granted is what we do," Suprun says.
Christopher Suprun said, “this award reminds us of the gift of time and the smile of healthy children.”
“We all have a chance to spend our moments here making someone else’s journey easier,” says Suprun.
The Hero Awards were presented at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C. on September 6, 2024. The ceremony took place at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building. That is the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dodge Suprun, is a current senior at the City College of New York. There he is a starter for the baseball squad and recipient of a Jeanette K Watson Fellowship (https://watson.foundation/fellowships/jk/fellows). This past summer he interned for the Baseball Island Foundation (https://www.baseballisland.org/) in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic. He taught English, math, and other life skills as well as baseball. In his spare time, Dodge coaches teenage baseball players seeking collegiate baseball opportunities.
Christopher Suprun (https://www.chrissuprun.org/) is a long time firefighter/paramedic. In September 2022 became EMS Chief of Marshall County EMS. He is also a board member of The September 11 Foundation (https://www.neverforget911.org/). There he has spoken to more than twenty thousand students across the United States. He serves on many boards focused on the arts/literacy, disaster preparedness, and government.
In his spare time, Suprun is a collegiate/professional umpire. He also is a movie/television actor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2292951/) and performs mentalism-hypnosis (https://www.magicof3am.com).
For more information about the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition and the Hero Awards, visit https://health.gov/pcsfn.
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State: Texas 75225
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