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Help Luca raise money

For participating in 2022 Cleveland Marathon

My Story…

I am participating in the race to end CTE in honor of my grandfather, Mike Pyle, Yale class of '61. We lost him to CTE in 2015. CTE is a devastating neurodegenerative disease caused by repetitive head impacts in sports and military service that can only be diagnosed after death. We are raising funds to support the Concussion Legacy Foundation's End CTE campaign, which is leading efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat CTE while supporting patients and families fighting the disease. We are competing against the other Ivy League schools including Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell to see who can raise the most funds. 14 of the first 18 Ivy League football players who have had their brain examined have had CTE.

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CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has devastated the lives of contact sport athletes and military Veterans. The Concussion Legacy Foundation is leading the fight to End CTE through prevention, research, and education. 

Runners are raising funds for programs like: 

  1. The CLF Global Brain Bank, a network of experts at Boston University and in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Brazil working to learn how to diagnose and treat CTE.
  2. Tackle Can Wait, which aims to prevent CTE in children.
  3. The CLF HelpLine, which provides 1-on-1 support for patients and caregivers battling suspected CTE.



2022 Race to End CTE, sponsored by the Cleveland Marathon

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
Apr 08 Luca Buono Miss you grandpa! $54.43