Living for Zachary Video wins Bronze Telly Award 2010!

Living for Zachary is being heard and recognized!

The Living for Zachary Heart awareness video received the Telly Award for 2010!
The Telly Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious award in the communications industry. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.

There are many levels of achievement for the Telly awards - Living for Zachary received the Bronze award and was rated by a panel of industry experts in each category with a point system that must be reached for each award level. Living for Zachary won the Bronze Telly Award for 2010 for Public Awareness Video!

The Telly statuette has been a symbol of creative excellence for many years. The Living for Zachary award will be the the Bronze Telly statuette. Designed by the same firm that makes the Oscar® and Emmy®, the Telly statuette weighs more than 4 1/2 pounds. In addition, each entry chosen as a Silver or Bronze Winner is awarded a commemorative certificate.

Living for Zachary is so excited to receive this great award and many thanks to Earl Fisher, Imagimedia who produced our video.

We are honored and know that Zachary is proud as well.

Thank you to all for helping spread the word about Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and sharing Zachary Schrah's story.



Special Thank you to the THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano

Fishing 4 Hearts Tournament - Sept. 4, 2010

Only a few weeks left before the:

1st Annual Fishing 4 Hearts Lake Fork Open Team Tournament 2010
Saturday, September 4th 2010

benefiting the
Living for Zachary Foundation

Registration for the Fishing 4 Hearts Lake Fork Open Team Tournament

Downloadable Form

Please print out registration form and mail to:
J C Outdoors
1406 Reesling Drive
Mesquite, TX 75150

Mail in entries must be postmarked by Monday~ August 30th, 2010 - there isn't much time left.

Interesting in becoming a Living for Zachary Sponsor for the Fishing 4 Hearts Fishing Tournament?

Downloadable Sponsorship Information

More information on the:
1st Annual Fishing 4 Hearts Lake Fork Open Team Tournament 2010

Entry Fee: $160 per Team Includes Big Bass Big Bass 1st - $500 Big Bass 2nd - $250 $5,000 1st Prize Guaranteed Highest placing team fishing with a junior angler (age 17 or under) will receive a $500 bonus

This will be a great time for all! Friday night, September 3rd there will be burgers, music, dancing and much more from 6PM to 9PM to celebrate the kick-off of the Fishing for Hearts Tournament.

If you would prefer to register on Friday night, fill out and bring the registration form with you to the Friday night event.

Open to all anglers including guides. Event will be hosted at The Minnow Bucket Marina.

Please help us have a great turnout for this fun event and get the word out about Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Great turnout at L4Z On the Border Night

On Tuesday night, August 10th Living for Zachary had a wonderful turnout of support at On the Border in Addison. Hundreds of people came and went throughout the day to show their support of Living for Zachary and 16 year old Zachary Schrah who passed away in April 09 of Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

The August 10th On the Border Night is just one of the many events that Living for Zachary has been planning.

Upcoming Events for Living for Zachary:

Sept. 4th
1st Annual Fishing 4 Hearts Lake Fork Open Team Tournament 2010

Download your Fishing 4 Hearts Registration Form

October 23, 2010
2nd Annual 5k /10k /1 Mile Living For Zachary Heart Run
at The Shops at Legacy Plano, TX

Fun Run Information

February 2011
Remembering Zachary Red-Tie Gala

We encourage you to please sign up for the Living for Zachary Newsletter to receive the latest updated information on Living for Zachary events and the latest news on Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Youth.


Living for Zachary is also on Facebook and Twitter!

Raise Awareness and Save Lives!

Is your school prepared if Sudden Cardiac Arrest(SCA) strikes a student, staff member or visitor?

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is one of the leading causes of death in North America killing 300,000 people each year in the U.S. alone. While SCA is more prevalent in adults, children are also victims of SCA. Even schools for young children have many adults present every day and schools serve as central gathering point within the community.

A recent study of first responders and physicians staffing school sporting events identified 21 episodes of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) in athletes of all ages. There are a significant number of young athletes, just like Zachary Schrah who have an undetected, or possibly an underlying heart disease that predisposes them to SCA.

Schools with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) have better cardiac survival rates, and the good news is a SCA is survivable. This important fact is true for both students and non-students who may experience sudden cardiac arrest at a school event.

The New England Journal of Medicine studies show that when AEDs are used within the first three minutes of SCA, there is a 74 percent survival rate. More than 92 percent of individuals suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest do not survive to hospital discharge. The rate of survival declines 7 percent to 10 percent for each minute defibrillation is delayed.

AEDs IN SCHOOLS: HOW?

Implementing an SCA program at your school isn’t hard, but it will take some work. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation has some great information about some successful school programs, check out Building a Heart-Safe School, you will find some very helpful information. You’ll also find helpful ideas and checklists throughout this website. We have the power and the moral responsibility – to protect the lives of our students, our faculty members, our staff and our visitors. With simple preparation, we can save a life at school.

Why wait for a tragedy? Implement an SCA program at your school now. You may just save a life—and better yet, by teaching students lifesaving skills, you’ll help build a generation of citizens who are ready, willing and able to help whenever SCA strikes. At Living 4 Zachary we want to work together to eliminate preventable deaths from SCA, which continue to occur all too often.