Who is Kelsey?

Kelsey is now a healthy, cancer-free college girl studying social work, human development and family studies. She lends her name, support and presence to this charitable foundation because she knows from experience that difficult days await children with cancer, and she wants to help.

At eleven, she heard her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, and spent most of the next year in The Children’s Hospital in Denver, where she received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant from her dad.

“It’s important for me,” Kelsey writes, “to get our launchers to sick kids in hospitals. I know they desperately need a bit of fun and to be a kid. A hospital is a scary place for a child and the entire family.”

She began giving back as soon as she emerged from treatment. Every year since her diagnosis, she has ridden the Courage Classic, a bicycling fundraiser for The Children’s Hospital. She has also been a spokesperson for the Hospital through its ambassador program, chosen to communicate the help available there for children.

Kelsey and her mother conceived their first PVC Marshmallow Launcher as a source of amusement for children, later realizing its simultaneous potential as a fundraiser and therapeutic aid. Pat and Kelsey intend the income from their brainchild to perpetuate  plans to give back for the sake of every child with a life-threatening disease.