TEAM BROOKLINE

Team Brookline, the Town of Brookline’s official Boston Marathon team, is a committed group of adult runners who train together for the Boston Marathon while raising funds and awareness for five partner charities that play an integral role in strengthening and enriching our community: Brookline Community Mental Health Center, Brookline Education Foundation, Brookline Library Foundation, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, and Brookline Teen Center.

Thank you to the amazing individuals who are running for our orchestra. Please support them and Team Brookline for the wonderful work they do.

Tania Eicoff

Kristen McIntire

I am so excited to be raising funds for The Brookline Symphony Orchestra, part of Team Brookline, for the second time in my marathon career! My marathon journey started back in 2015 when I ran my first race right here in Boston. The goal was simple: finish a marathon. What I didn't know was how much more it would become - after finishing Boston and raising over $9,000 for my chosen charity, I signed up to run New York and subsequently found out about a new race series called the Abbott World Marathon Majors, which I then (of course) wanted to try to complete. This past April I finally got my six-star medal in London after 9 years, 9 marathons, thousands of dollars raised for various charities, a pandemic, and an Achilles injury that nearly ended my running career in 2020.

Having the Boston Marathon be your home race makes it very difficult to ignore its calls to race again. The Brookline Symphony Orchestra has been by far my favorite cause to run for here at home, and I have personally gotten to work with the orchestra several times over the past few years as part of the Metropolitan Chorale. We are both Brookline-based arts organizations and we have collaborated many times to put on wonderful performances in our local community. When I last ran for them in 2018, we were preparing for our joint concert that occurred a month before the marathon, and it was wonderful to get to work so closely with the group I was fundraising for while training.

The stars have aligned yet again for a wonderful year, and our organizations will be rehearsing to perform together again this upcoming March as I train for Boston. Your support of our local orchestra means so much to me, and to our surrounding community. Without your financial support, offering concert programs as large as the one we are offering in March (the Brahms Requiem) would be impossible. A single concert with full orchestra, choir, and professional soloists will never actually bring in enough ticket revenue to cover the costs. That's why your support in whatever capacity is so important for the longevity of classical music organizations, especially ours!

Thank you for supporting the Brookline Symphony and my journey to my last marathon finish line- I think it makes sense to finish what I started on the 10th anniversary of my first!

Fundraising site: https://www.givengain.com/project/kristen-raising-funds-for-team-brookline-brookline-center-for-community-mental-health-86235

Amanda Roth

Join me in supporting Team Brookline and the Brookline Symphony Orchestra!

In November 2019, I began what I thought was going to be a 6 month adventure of running the Boston Marathon for the Brookline Symphony. Five years, a virtual marathon, and many miles later, I'm excited to begin the final stretch of what has been a very long road to Boylston Street.

As a musician and lifelong music lover, I am honored to complete this long Boston Marathon journey by supporting classical music in my community.

The Brookline Symphony Orchestra (BrSO) provides qualified volunteer musicians under professional leadership an opportunity to enhance their skills while enriching the cultural life of the community through affordable performances and outreach events. They are actively working to ensure that the Brookline Symphony Orchestra becomes a vital part of Brookline's cultural life -- a community orchestra in the truest sense of the word. In addition to our traditional concerts each season, the BrSO plans a number of free outreach events annually, including free full orchestra concerts at schools, nursing homes, and hospitals. They are honored to give Brookline an orchestra to be proud of, for both its musical achievements and its community involvement.

Fundraising site: https://www.givengain.com/project/amanda-raising-funds-for-team-brookline-brookline-center-for-community-mental-health-86172

Jade Eyles

Hi, I'm Jade, and I am thrilled to be raising money for Brookline Symphony Orchestra as part of Team Brookline! I am raising this money to help such an amazing charity, who is helping me to complete the Boston Marathon!

I started getting into longer distance running about 18 months ago when I signed up for the Cambridge Half Marathon. My mum was diagnosed with Stage 4 Bowel Cancer in 2022 and I wanted a goal to aim for, and help give back to the charity that had provided her so much support. A year on, I have found running a great space to help clear my mind, and have enjoyed taking part in the Boston Half marathon alongside some triathlons which I have found great fun! In 2025 I am going to be tackling the prestigious Boston Marathon! The Boston marathon is the worlds oldest marathon, starting in 1897, and had over 50,000 people come out to support the runners on the day! After moving to Boston in 2023 and watching the 2024 marathon, I decided this was the next challenge that I wanted to tackle. However, it is extremely difficult to qualify for....

Thankfully, I have teamed up with an amazing charity: The Brookline Symphony Orchestra under Team Brookline. The Brookline Symphony Orchestra (BrSO) provides qualified volunteer musicians an opportunity to enhance their skills while enriching the cultural life of the community through affordable performances and outreach events. Everyone should have access to music, and I love how the Brookline Symphony Orchestra is providing this to the local communities. Team Brookline aims to support the local community by providing access to not just the orchestra, but to food banks, mental health access, the brookline library and Brookline education and teen centre.

As part of my fundraising commitment, I will be raising $8500 for Team Brookline, and I can't wait to represent them during the Boston Marathon. They will be providing support in the training leading up to the marathon, and I am looking forward to taking on this journey with them. Please help provide support to this incredible charity if you are able to!

Fundraising site: https://www.givengain.com/project/jade-raising-funds-for-team-brookline-brookline-center-for-community-mental-health-87526