29th Annual Amy Thompson Run for Brain Injury

Monday May 30, 2016 • 8am • Loose Park • $25-$40

5100 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO, 64112
8am
Contact
913-754-8883

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The Amy Thompson Run for Brain Injury is held every year on Memorial Day at Loose Park with more than 2,000 runners, walkers and wheelchair participants. It is one of the oldest, most premier family runs in Kansas City, and is the single largest contributor to the Brain Injury Association of Kansas and Greater KC (BIAKS). Proceeds fund vital programs to brain injury survivors and the professionals who treat them. 

The run was started by friends of Amy Thompson, a 23 year old young woman who sustained a traumatic brain injury (Halloween night, 1986) after being shot in the head in an attempted robbery. Amy survived six weeks in a coma and multiple surgeries, and she fought the daily battle of life with a brain injury until she passed away unexpectedly on Christmas day,1989.