Dave Foster - Team Captain and Lead Organizer  
Planned route - Oxford to Boxford

Dave likes to stay active, and cycling has long been one of his favorite activities.  Though in recent years cycling has had to compete with hiking, rock climbing, skiing and very recently pickleball!    Dave claims he probably wouldn’t have met his wife of 34 years, Maryanne, were it not for cycling (but that is another story).  Starting in the early 90’s Dave regularly rode in the annual MS 150 ride around Cincinnati.  He ended up doing 20 of them, and was often one of the top fundraisers.  He’s always thought about a long distance bike ride, and with recent retirement, it became a real possibility.  And the idea of combining a long ride with raising funds to find a cure for this awful disease that is attacking his good friend Doug, just made sense.  So with the support of Doug and Dolly, and his wife Maryanne, we are off and riding (soon).

https://donate.ma.als.org/fundraiser/4014541


Dolly McIlvaine 
Planned route - Oxford to Boxford 

Dolly has been married to Doug for 36 years.  They have lived in Topsfield, MA for close to 30 years and they have three children and a crazy Golden Doodle.  In her teen years, Dolly was a competitive elite gymnast and developed a love of lifelong fitness and unfortunately a few creaky joints!  Cycling has enabled her to keep fit while developing a passion to ride for charity to help others.  She is a 22 year rider in  the Pan Mass Challenge, the nation's most successful athletic charity fundraiser riding two days each August across the state of Massachusetts,  raising money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  She has also ridden for 3 years in the MA Ride to Defeat ALS as a member of Team Hope.  She hopes that this ride will not only raise awareness of this orphan disease called ALS but will also raise much needed funds to make a difference in the diagnosis, treatment and eventually finding a cure!  "We can do this together!  Please join us in our efforts!"

https://donate.ma.als.org/fundraiser/4246073


Steve Lopez 
Planned route - Oxford to Boxford

Steve was born and raised on Long Island, NY and moved to Ohio back in the early 1990’s to further his IT career where he lived for over three decades.  He is a lifelong biker that dates to his childhood, watching his father complete in criterium races and includes 10+ years as a competitive biathlete/triathlete.  Steve's wife, Mary, was unfortunately diagnosed with ALS in the spring of 2016 and succumbed to this disease in August of 2019.  Steve then moved to the Boston area in 2021 to be nearby his two oldest children’s families. He recently retired (for now) to focus on spending time with family, traveling, biking, and ramping up his personal commitment to fighting ALS.  Before his wife departed, he promised her that he would fight ALS to his last breath and he is all in to find a cure by 2030 along with helping out wherever possible the ALS community.  "Let’s defeat this disease together! "

https://donate.ma.als.org/fundraiser/4332547


Rod McGregor
Planned route - Oxford to Boxford

Rod is looking forward to doing the entire Oxford to Boxford ride, seeing Mac/other Alpha Delts and more importantly trying to raise funds to combat ALS. He admittedly confessed that the “van-driving caravan” sounds like a hell of a lot more fun! Cycling takes up more of his leisure time the last two years since he’s had partial knee replacements. He’s done a couple cycling hundred-milers and will frequently ride to Cleveland and back from his hometown of Hudson, Ohio during the summers. Rod decided that he needed to get more active 12 years ago after (in his words) turning into “a fat man of 190 pounds.” Since then, he has competed in Masters Track and Field and the Senior Olympics including setting a Masters Track Age Group Indoor World Record for the 4 x 800 meter relay with 3 other runners in March 2018.

Rod has been married to Marsha for 35 years, has a son Drew, who works with him at his North Canton-based Marketing Communications Agency and a daughter Kate, a teacher/track coach at Norton Middle School in Columbus.

Neal Restivo
Planned route - All of Ohio!