A Team In Training^® honored teammate is someone who has had to personally deal with the physical and emotional effects of leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma and who chooses to share those experiences with other people in order to support the work and efforts of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Honored teammates are asked to serve a very important role in the Society's Team In Training, the world's largest endurance sports training program. They are matched with participants, who then train and fundraise in their honor.

Honorees remind participants that Team In Training is so much more than just a physical training program. By getting to know an honored teammate, the participant learns about the impact these diseases have on a patient and his or her family. Participants also discover that the money they raise truly makes a positive difference in someone's life.

A message from Keri Vizandiou, a local Suncoast Chapter Honored Teammate:

"I often hear participants say that what they are doing is nothing compared to what the honored teammates and other cancer patients have gone through or are going through. But, you, the participants are doing this by choice, to make a difference, to help fund research, to hopefully find better treatments and a cure. Your choice, to sacrifice some of your vauable time and energy for a few months out of the year so that you can help countless others, is inspirational to me and my family. All I can say is thank you."