Red Card Cancer

Our History

Red Card Cancer began in the fall of 2009 on the campus of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. What started as a tribute to founder Paul Payne’s long time friend and mentor, Joe Bochicchio, has grown into a 501(c)(3) organization with national reach and a growing impact on all levels of soccer in the United States. Since 2010, RCC has been closely affiliated with the internationally renowned Johns Hopkins’ Sidney Kimmel Cancer Research Center. In 2018, RCC entered into a new partnership with the American Cancer Society.

To get involved teams from the LL League (boys and girls) need to raise $500 in sponsorships to get shirts for coaches and players. Coaches have had a lot of success involving their booster club to go out into their community and ask for sponsorships. We offer two price points for sponsors. For $100 the sponsor can write a line of text or for $250 the sponsor can submit artwork. Both types of sponsorship will be featureed on the back othe LL League Red Card Cancer t-shirt. We ask that players from your team try to sell 3 t-shirts to family and fans to raise additional funds. More information for sponsorship and shirts is below.

History of the LL League with Red Card Cancer

 In 2013 two schools, both boys and girls teams, participated in a home and home series to promote and raise funds for cancer research.  Coach Hartlaub, of Conestoga Valley, sought out long time friend and Red Card Cancer founder Paul Payne for assistance.  Since then the LL League has raised money for the Kimmel Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.  In the 7 years the LL League has participated over $100k has been raised.  In 2019 the League raised $24,5k, the highest so far.  Please consider helping us in our efforts to beat last year's totals.

• 2023 - $24,266

• 2022 - $24,820

• 2021 - $19,640

• 2020 - $20,550

• 2019 - $24,500

• 2018 - $15,701

• 2017 - $10,550

• 2016  - $6,143

• 2015  -  $5,580