Fordham Prep, Fairfield University Alum, Michael McEvoy Participates in NYC Wall Street Decathlon for Cancer Fundraising

Michael McEvoy, a product of Fordham Prep and Fairfield University, is fighting for a great cause. The former high school track and lacrosse athlete and college rugby player has teamed up with friends from Connecticut and beyond to raise funds for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. McEvoy will be participating in the NYC Wall Street Decathlon (http://nyc.thedecathlon.org/competitors/357) with three friends. Five year participant and team captain, Jonathan O'Hanlon of Darien, Alex Bisset, of Fairfield, and Michigan product Kai Blache will be among those joining McEvoy in the fight against cancer. The Decathlon will take place on Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, at St. John-s University, and Michael and "Team Dragonforce" will be competing during Saturday's team proceedings. The fundraiser is attended by Wall Street firms large and small, and has raised over $6 million in the last seven years, a remarkable total. The team has raised just over $15,000 to date, but they are looking to continue their fundraising efforts up until the competition. Total dollars raised by each team count toward 1/3rd of their final score. Kai Blache is in remission from a recent battle with testicular cancer, completing his chemo last summer. He is in remission, but is still doing work to recuperate from some of the lingering effects of his treatments. The event has been a great motivator for him to get back to (or at least closer to) his days of being a Division I tennis player at Western Michigan. ?I know cancer of all kinds has affected everyone, either personally or someone close to them,? says McEvoy. ?It-s a disease that hospitals and research centers like MSKCC work tirelessly to eradicate. ?I am digging back to my days on the Fordham Prep track team and competing in the 400m and 800m sprints,? adds McEvoy. The 500m row, vertical jump, football distance throw, and NFL combine style shuttle run are also on his events list. O-Hanlon, Bisset and McEvoy were colleagues at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in Manhattan. O-Hanlon now works at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, NC, Bisset at Barclays, and Blache is the CFO of Slyde and VP of Finance for Ticketsocket and Digitzs. Michael currently works for his family's Westchester based commercial real estate firm, Houlihan Parnes Realtors, and will begin full time studies as an MBA candidate at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business at Lincoln Center in the fall. All donations will go directly to pediatric cancer treatment and research. You can reach Michael directly at [email protected] and visit http://nyc.thedecathlon.org/competitors/357 to make a donation.