The Donate Life Transplant Games is a multi-sport festival for individuals who have undergone life-saving transplant surgeries. Competition is open to living donors and solid organ transplant recipients as well as bone marrow, cornea, and tissue transplant recipients. More than an athletic event, the Games highlight the success of transplantation; honor the lasting legacy of donors; provide hope to those who continue to wait; and promote donor registration.

 

While athletes must be recipients of life-saving transplant surgeries, anyone registered with a state-sponsored team can attend the five-day festival.  

 

The Transplant Life Foundation (formerly the Transplant Games of America -TGA) produces the Donate Life Transplant Games. The Games are held every two years in a different location in the United States. More than 10,000 people gathered in San Diego for the 2022 Games. Due to Covid, the 2020 Games were postponed and "reimagined" in the summer of 2021 through communities across the US. This event, while lacking some of the heartfelt emotion and the demonstration of tenacity and courage, still shined a light on the gift of life and the needs of more that 109,000 individuals waiting for a life-restoring organ. And, the TGA was able to broadcast live many events from the American Dream in New Jersey. There were many opportunities for people to experience how donation and transplantation affects thousands of lives every year. For more information visit the website at www.transplantgamesofamerica.org.

 

Learn more about the Transplant Life Foundation.