Featuring Caleb as our 2025 Champion

Thank you for being a donor!

Throughout the year, you’ll get special updates from me, Caleb, so you can see how friends like YOU are helping to advance research and improve care here at Cincinnati Children’s.

Current Champion Checkup Update!

Nora: Hi everyone! It's Nora! This is my last Champion Checkup. I had so much fun telling you all about my story. Now, I want you to meet our new Champion, Caleb! He's awesome! 

Click the video below to see me pass the torch to him, a cool new tradition for our Champion Checkup kids, like me! 


Here are some FUN FACTS about my new friend, Caleb—your 2025 Champion!

    Champion Caleb fun fact bookmark
  1. Age: Turning 11 this month!
  2. Grade: 5th
  3. Favorite subject: Everything except math
  4. Favorite color: Blue
  5. Favorite kind of music: 80s classic rock
  6. Favorite food: Mac & Cheese
  7. Favorite holiday: Christmas
  8. Favorite tradition: Kidney Anniversary
  9. Favorite toy: Lego
  10. Hobbies: Drawing, Playing Nintendo Switch, Bowling and Playing Outside 
  11. Dream career: Doctor 
  12. Favorite family activity: Playing board games 

Nora: Caleb and I are like two peas in a pod! I'm super-duper excited to follow his amazing story here at Cincinnati Children's. It's going to be so much fun! 

Emily: And we can't thank you enough for following ours. We wish you all the best, Caleb, and hope you have as much fun as we did!

Bye for now!

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Would you like to continue supporting patients like Caleb and more at Cincinnati Children’s?

You can also choose to make a recurring donation to become a part of our ongoing commitment to a better future for all kids.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Hannah Gerth at hannah.gerth@cchmc.org.

Fun facts about our past Champions!

2024 Nora

  • I’m a twin sister!

  • I love to play sports like soccer, basketball and swim on my Special Olympics team.

  • After I was born, I was diagnosed with Down syndrome and when I was just 7 months old, I had heart surgery!

  • I love participating in Cincinnati Walks for Kids! Our family team name is: Oh Nuts Nora!

2023 Saniya

  • I love hip-hop dance class, playing sports and having adventures with my family.

  • I have sickle cell disease - it makes my red blood cells a different shape, like crescent moons. 🌙

  • I love participating in Cincinnati Walks for Kids each year!

2022 Colton

  • At just 12 years old, I’ve had over 220 visits to Cincinnati Children’s.

  • I visit both Occupational and Physical therapy to help with my mobility and speech!

  • I had leg surgery in 2021 and now I can walk for 15 minutes with help from my braces and walker (before surgery, I could only walk for 60 seconds, can you believe?)!

  • I’m a huge football fan and thanks to the Indianapolis Colts owner, along with the amazing folks at Cincinnati Children’s, I got to see the Bengals in the Superbowl!!

2021 Anna Grace

  • When I grow up, I want to work with the Champions Program at Cincinnati Children’s. I also want to work at a camp for kids with limb differences, so I can help others just like me!

  • My mom is my hero! She saved the day by adopting me and my sister.

  • Running is one of my FAVORITE things to do — I trained for 10 weeks with our friends at be.well to complete a 5K!