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Badger Challenge

September 27, 2026
Madison, WI 53718 US
Team Fundraiser
Current Team Members:
15
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$25,040

Raised of $18,000

Friends of Team FC!

 

Hi friends of Team FC! 

If you're on this page, you're probably a friend of Andrea's or Simone's, or you've heard about Team FC from a friend of a friend. No matter how you got here, we're happy you've found us. This is our team's site for the 2026 Badger Challenge, an annual walking, running, and biking event which funds cancer research and patient support at UW-Madison Hospitals. 

There are a few reasons we're raising money this way. First of all, the Badger Challenge gives 100% of all the money we raise to the cause; there's no overhead, none. As we're sure you know, medical research is crazy expensive, and given the recent cuts to research funding--we want to do what we can to make sure it continues. 

Second, as Jewish women, we are asking you to help because you are likely to know Jewish women, maybe be a Jewish woman yourself, be related to one (or more), now or in the future. We don't want to bore you with statistics, but... Ashkenazi Jewish women are about 10 times more likely than non-Jewish women to develop breast or ovarian cancer over the course of our lifetimes. With or without the BRCA genetic mutations (which neither Andrea nor Simone has), Jewish women are at much greater risk of developing these cancers, and we need your help fending them off. While our actual lives depend on advances in research and treatment, our hope is that yours doesn't. 

Third, our friend Susan formed her own team this year, abandoning us, and we want to beat her new team. Seriously.

If that's not the kind of thing that motivates you, that's ok. Here's a different angle. It's Simone's 60th birthday this year, and we're celebrating it at the Badger Challenge. You don't have to show up in person, though there will be cake. Whether you can make it to Madison or not, please wish Simone a happy birthday by contributing to this year's event, through our team, not Susan's. 

Simone and Andrea are alive thanks to the remarkable research at UW Hospital's Breast Center and Carbone Cancer Clinics. And we are truly grateful to our surgeons, radiologists, lymphedema specialists, oncologists, nurses, administrators, schedulers, research coordinators, ER docs, janitors and everyone else who works there. Please join us in supporting the work they do, saving people from all over the state, and through research, all over the country. 

We don't care how much money you want to donate. Every gift counts. Please just join our team--as an individual, as a family, a synagogue, a community. We are in this to live, which is why we've named our team: Team for Chayim, a Team for Life, Team fC! 

Thanks for reading, thanks for showing up, thanks for being our people, and thanks for joining us in this work. 

With love and gratitude, we remain

Andrea and Simone

 

 

Top Donors

$25,040 Raised By 185 Donors

$1,800 on behalf of Andrea Steinberger
$1,800 on behalf of Simone's 60th!
$1,000 in support of rabbi andrea
$500 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$500 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$500 in support of Andrea Steinberger and all the others we have loved who have been impacted by cancer.
$500 on behalf of David Berkey & Eleanor Lacey
$500 from Anonymous
$500 on behalf of Marci Gittleman
$500 in support of Rabbi Andrea
$500 in support of Ruth Litovsky
$500 On Behalf Of Simone Schweber
$500 on behalf of Tom Unknown
$360 on behalf of Judy Karofsky
$360 on behalf of Matthew Banks
$250 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$250 on behalf of Beth Graue
$250 on behalf of Christine Whelan
$250 on behalf of Diana hess
$250 on behalf of Kimber Wilkerson
$250 on behalf of Laura Unknown
$250 on behalf of Li-Ching Ho
$250 in memory of Margaret Ann “Meg” Christianson
$250 on behalf of Mary Louise Roberts
$250 in support of Simone Schweber
$180 on behalf of Adam Spilker
$180 on behalf of Allison Lee and Ken Chasen
$180 in support of Amazing Andrea
$180 from Anonymous
$180 in honor of Andrea and Simone
$180 in honor of Andrea and Simone
$180 in support of Andrea and Simone!
$180 on behalf of Andrea Hoffman
$180 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$180 in support of Andrea Steinberger!!
$180 from Anonymous
$180 on behalf of Francis and Libby
$180 in support of Jeremy Tunis
$180 on behalf of julie schreiber
$180 on behalf of Kira Finkenberg
$180 in honor of Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
$180 in honor of Simone Schweber
$180 in honor of Simone Schweber's 60th Birthday
$180 on behalf of Stefanie Kushner
$118 in support of Andrea & Simone
$118 on behalf of Andrea Steinberger
$118 on behalf of Jeffrey Rosenfeld
$118 on behalf of Julie, Mitch, Hannah, Eva, and Charlie
$100 on behalf of Adam Gitlin
$100 from Anonymous
$100 on behalf of albrecht karle
$100 in honor of Andrea and Simone
$100 in support of Andrea and Simone
$100 in support of Andrea and Simone
$100 in honor of Andrea Steinberger
$100 in honor of Andrea Steinberger
$100 in support of Andrea steinberger
$100 in support of Andrea Steinberger & JoAnn Skloot
$100 on behalf of Arlene Lukin
$100 on behalf of Blaze Woodlief
$100 on behalf of Brian utschig
$100 on behalf of Chris Thorn
$100 on behalf of Diana hess
$100 on behalf of Doug Passon
$100 on behalf of Eli Rosen
$100 on behalf of Emily Hall Miller
$100 in support of Eric Ghidotti
$100 on behalf of in support of Simone and Andrea, whose kindness endures for a lifetime
$100 on behalf of James Ooi
$100 on behalf of Jane Albert
$100 from Anonymous
$100 on behalf of Laura McCormick
$100 on behalf of Lesley Bartlett
$100 on behalf of Linda Brenner
$100 from Anonymous
$100 on behalf of Michael Ladd
$100 on behalf of Rebecca Youngerman
$100 on behalf of Regina Vidaver
$100 on behalf of rochelle klaskin
$100 on behalf of Sara Gronim
$100 in support of Sara Ivry
$100 on behalf of Sari Edber
$100 on behalf of Sherie Sondel
$100 in support of Simone Schweber
$100 in support of Simone Schweber (from her Pilates friend Anne)
$100 in honor of Simone Schweber's 60th!
$100 in honor of Simone's birthday and both Andrea's and Simone's tenacity
$100 in memory of the beautiful, smart, and funny Susan Wray
$100 in support of The bestest cousin ever!!!
$100 on behalf of Timothy Paskewitz
$75 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$75 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$75 on behalf of Dan and Laurie Morrison
$75 on behalf of Jonathan Prosnit
$75 from Anonymous
$75 on behalf of Roderick Deano
$75 in support of Team FC
$75 on behalf of Thomas Kuehne
$72 from Anonymous
$72 in support of Simone and Andrea
$54 on behalf of Beth and Mark Copelovitch
$54 on behalf of Eliza Scholl
$54 from Anonymous
$54 from Anonymous
$54 on behalf of Joann Cantor
$54 on behalf of Kris Rasmussen
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in honor of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in support of Andrea Steinberger
$50 on behalf of Andrea Steinberger
$50 in honor of Andrea Steinberger
$50 on behalf of Anna Gade
$50 on behalf of Arnold Lee
$50 on behalf of Audrey Tepper
$50 in support of Barbara Razowsky
$50 on behalf of Betsy & Scott Forester
$50 on behalf of Eleanor Richman
$50 on behalf of Francis Schrag
$50 on behalf of Gail Jacob
$50 on behalf of Heather Duncan
$50 on behalf of James Sailer
$50 on behalf of Jeremy Tunis
$50 on behalf of Jesse Sondel
$50 from Anonymous
$50 in memory of Jonathan Rosenblum
$50 on behalf of Julie Lehrman
$50 from Anonymous
$50 on behalf of Lesley Bartlett
$50 on behalf of Marissa Lueck
$50 on behalf of Meg Bennett
$50 on behalf of Melanie Cohen
$50 on behalf of Miri Wexler
$50 on behalf of Mom Unknown
$50 in memory of Nancy Calhoun
$50 in memory of Narayan, Anne, Shalina, Usha…
$50 on behalf of Penny Vernon
$50 in support of Simone Schweber
$50 on behalf of Stacey Caplan
$50 on behalf of Zoe Tarshis
$36 on behalf of Abby Steinberger
$36 in support of Andrea and Simone
$36 in honor of Andrea and Simone - two of the most awesome Jewish women I know!
$36 on behalf of Ann Imig
$36 in support of Cancer Research
$36 on behalf of Chad Goldberg
$36 from Anonymous
$36 on behalf of Jamie Schiffman
$36 from Anonymous
$36 on behalf of Joshua Manders
$36 in support of Kari Mann
$36 on behalf of Leora Kaye
$36 on behalf of Marsha Cohen and Mike Pressman
$36 on behalf of Rochelle Robins
$36 on behalf of Samantha Angelina
$36 on behalf of Samantha Foon
$36 from Anonymous
$36 on behalf of Scott Forester
$36 in honor of Simone’s Big Birthday
$25 in memory of Carla Blum
$25 in support of Dana Pavia-dunn
$25 on behalf of Debra Blitz
$25 on behalf of Erica Swerdlow
$25 on behalf of Jackie Topol
$25 on behalf of Lisa Goldman
$25 on behalf of Lynne Ballesta
$25 on behalf of Madaleine Hillsberg
$25 on behalf of Martin Mccluskey
$25 on behalf of Me Unknown
$25 in memory of my mom Sylvia
$25 on behalf of Nina Uziel-Miller
$25 in honor of Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
$25 on behalf of Ruth Blanchette
$25 on behalf of Sean Bertram
$25 from Anonymous
$18 on behalf of Carly Fisher
$18 on behalf of Emily Ferdman
$18 in support of Ilisa Ferrara
$18 on behalf of Lani Hart
$18 on behalf of Marnie Rudick
$18 from Anonymous
$18 on behalf of Sydney Tepner

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