Team Lily Bow still accepting new team members

Team Lily Bow still accepting new team members

Team Lily Bow, sponsored by Konk Life, is still accepting new members for its 2014 team. There are three membership levels for Team Lily Bow including a triathlete team, 5K running team and a support team.

The team coaches are Amy Bradshaw, USAT certified coach and race director of TRIKW, and Liz Love, AFAA certified Personal Trainer and USA Triathlon Level I Coach. The first team meeting will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, at Higgs Beach (near the playground).

The meeting is open to the public. Team members and anyone interested in joining the team or finding out more information are encouraged to attend. The meeting should last no longer than one hour and the agenda items include equipment needs, training calendar of events, and fundraising.

Team Lily Bow is also seeking team sponsors to help offset training and equipment costs. Various levels of sponsorships are available. To learn more information about Team Lily Bow, to join their team, or to learn how to become a sponsor, you can find them on Facebook under the group name ‘Team Lily Bow.

Team Lily Bow, formerly Team Island Jane, is a group of every day local women (business owners, single young students, soccer moms, big/tall/short/curvy and everything in between) hoping to do extraordinary things to better themselves and their community. With the same grit and moxie as their inspiration Lily Bow—one of the first pioneers of the Keys—they are seeking to inspire and ignite the strength of local women to compete together in the renowned Key West triathlon, TRIKW, this December

While training together, Team Lily Bow will also raise money for Womankind, a local non-profit providing health care on a sliding scale. Specifically, the women of Team Lily Bow will work to raise $15,000 to provide medical care to fifty (50) uninsured women in our community.

Lily Bow moved to Cudjoe Key in 1904 with her husband and two small children to build a new life. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Bow decided that life in the Keys was too hard to maintain and moved back to Chicago. But not Lily; she was unafraid to accept the challenge of a hard, unknown path. She was educated, strong, and unwilling to give up. She and her boys farmed the land and utilized the sea to survive. She even created a makeshift school for her boys and other local children and uneducated adults.

William Krome, the lead engineer for the incoming railroad, befriended Lily and convinced her to move to the mainland before the railroad was to be completed near their property. He worried for her safety, being a woman surrounded by multitudes of men working on the railroad. He provided her oldest son with a job on the railroad and arranged to have the family moved to Miami. She became a music teacher for a while, but soon turned back to her pioneer ways to start a citrus grove in Homestead. She started a Women’s Club, built a library, and was very active in her community. Today, Lily’s light shines on over Bow Channel, which serves as a visual reminder of the mark she left on the Florida Keys and those inspired by her.

 

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