As a former business owner and coach, and now faculty member and director of Trine
University’s Center for Sports Studies, Brandon Podgorski knows the importance of
vision.
This spring, he has a vision to help support those undergoing treatment for leukemia
and lymphoma.
Podgorski, associate professor of sport management in Trine’s Ketner School of Business,
has been selected as a Visionary of the Year by the northeast Indiana chapter of the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS).
From Feb. 29 through May 9, he will lead a team of family and friends seeking to raise
at least $50,000 for LLS. The funds Podgorski’s team raises will specifically go towards
supporting patients and their families who are battling blood cancers.
“When I was first presented with this opportunity, I thought of my friend Angie and
her son Miles, who was diagnosed with leukemia at a very young age. After years of
treatments, he’s now in remission and living a normal college life, thankfully,” Podgorski
said.
The LLS holds its Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign each year. Podgorski
was contacted about participating in November by a representative from the northeast
Indiana chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
All donations received will support LLS’s overall mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma,
Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their
families.
“This is an organization that is making an impact with the dollars it raises, and
I’m proud to be associated with LLS,” said Podgorski.
If Podgorski’s team reaches its goal by May 9, the team’s name will be connected to
an LLS-funded research portfolio to honor their efforts to help people with blood
cancers.
For more information, visit Podgorski’s Visionaries of the Year page at pages.lls.org/voy/in/nein24/bpodgorski