TEAM IMPACT FELLOWSHIP ALL IN. ALL TOGETHER.
Team IMPACT matches children facing serious illness and disability with college sports teams, creating a long-term, life-changing experience for everyone involved. Through Team IMPACT, a child battling illness becomes an official member of a college athletic team, attending practices, games, team dinners, and more. After two years, or two seasons, with the team, the child graduates from the program with demonstrated improvements in their optimism, confidence, and sense of belonging. Parents and siblings gain a community of support and a distraction from medical realities, and student-athletes gain invaluable inspiration and perspective that will be carried with them long after graduation.
Since 2011, Team IMPACT has matched 4,000 children with nearly 850 colleges and universities in all 50 states, positively impacting more than 100,000 student-athletes.
Since 2018, Team IMPACT has welcomed over 400 student-athletes into the Fellowship Program and continues to grow each year. The 2025-26 class of Fellows is a group of over 300 student-athletes from 140 different colleges and universities across the United States.
“Being part of the Team IMPACT Fellowship means investing in the person you are and, in the person, you want to become. The Fellowship gives you the chance to surround yourself with so many opportunities to develop your own path as a student-athlete and to use your actions to make change on your campus. The Fellowship provides you chances to envision the change you want to have, to be inspired by other student-athletes, and to create actionable solutions. I can guarantee that no one will leave the Fellowship as the same person they were when they entered it. Being part of Team IMPACT means breaking barriers and changing definitions. Team IMPACT breaks the barriers around sports teams, opening teams to new people, new stories, and new hearts. In my experience, Team IMPACT changes the foundational purpose of being a teammate, effectively redefining the words “teammate” and “student-athlete.”
– Sophia M, University of Michigan Dance
Getting All Kids in the Game.
Guide children and teams alike in a mutually beneficial relationship of belonging, empowerment, and resilience.
OUR MISSION
OUR VISION
To create a world where every child facing serious illness and disability feels supported by something bigger and every team is transformed by a greater purpose.