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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men's and women's swimming and diving teams joined thousands of athletes from collegiate, high school and club teams across the nation and abroad to celebrate the 16th annual Ted Mullin "Leave it in the Pool" Hour of Power Relay for Sarcoma Research, sponsored by the Carleton College swimming and diving teams.
 
Head coach Elise Knoche, who was a former All-American swimmer at Carleton, and the Warhawks swam for one hour Tuesday morning to honor those who are fighting or have succumbed to cancer.
 
The event is named for former Carleton swimmer Edward H. "Ted" Mullin, who passed away from synovial sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in September 2006.  The annual swim relay, which now includes dryland teams as well, has grown from 15 teams in its first year to well over 100 teams and thousands of athletes across the nation and the world in recent years. Participating swim teams engage in continuous relays of any stroke for a full hour of all-out swimming. Dryland teams engage in their particular sport non-stop for a full hour.
 
In the event's first 15 years, participating teams have raised over $925,000 for the Ted Mullin Fund to support research at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital into the causes and treatment of sarcoma and other rare pediatric cancers. From all sources, the Ted Mullin Fund has now raised more than $1.5 million.