Welcome to The Katie Linz Foundation

About Katie

Some words just never go together: should never be said in the same sentence. Katie Linz, Rhabdomyosarcoma. It seemed impossible: Katie Linz, soccer goalie, starter on St. Ursula's basketball team. Robust, beach-loving, grin-to-beat the band-rocker-chick, sixteen year old. Diagnosis: Rhabdo: The awful nickname for the soft tissue cancer that would take her away. If it were just up to Katie, she would have beaten this disease. She battled from March, 1992 living her life fully, graduating from high school, starting college, through intense chemo, radiation, hair-loss, remission, Rhabdo returning, more chemo, bone marrow rescue, Rhabdo returning again, to the end on December 29, 1994. Christmas would never be the same for the Linz family: Mom Cherie, Dad Tony, and sisters Barb, Jennie and Maggie. Nothing would ever be the same.

It wouldn't be the same without Katie

Life would go on and so would the deadly Rhabdo. Katie would be righteously ticked off and her family knew it. Katie had written in her journal, "I'm going to do something after all this bull****." (a normal teen was Katie), "to help find the cure for this." So Katie's sisters and her parents decided to do it for her.

In 2004, the first annual Katie Linz Foundation golf outing/rocking party was held. The event was dubbed the Lizard King Classic in honor of Katie's favorite line from a Jim Morrison quote, "I am the Lizard King. I can do anything," which has become the foundations rallying cry. In 2015 the foundation moved the party in doors to a football themed party -The Lizard King Who Dey Bash. The KLF has donated over $500K to Cincinnati Children's in support of their mission to cure pediatric cancer and support families struck by this horrible disease.