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High Point University
10/22/2014
You’ve probably seen one in a major shopping center, school or neighborhood near you: a lemonade stand with the name Alex on it. High Point University senior and Newport, Rhode Island native James Tasca is taking those stands to the next level this fall.
Tasca, along with one of his friends, is training to compete in a Half Ironman competition – a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile run – in Austin, Texas on Oct. 26. Throughout the course of their training, the duo decided they wanted to give a greater meaning to the challenge: to raise money for childhood cancer through Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Tasca is cousins with Alex Scott, the inspiration behind Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF). In 1997, Scott was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer, shortly before her first birthday. She set up a lemonade stand when she was four years old to raise money to help doctors find a cure. Since then, ALSF has raised more than $80 million towards finding a cure for the disease that took her life.
