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TEAM TEAL TO MAKE ITS MARK IN 2025

 

The 2025 Team Teal campaign has commenced, with Queensland’s harness racing industry coming together to raise funds for ovarian and gynaecological cancer research.

Running until 15 March, the campaign will see the Queensland harness racing industry donate $200 for every race won by a reinswoman in the Sunshine State. This year, Chloe Butler and Taleah McMullen will serve as Queensland’s 2025 Team Teal ambassadors, leading the initiative. All Queensland reinswomen will wear teal-coloured pants to raise awareness for the cause.

In 2024, Queensland’s female harness racing drivers raised over $15,000 for Team Teal, with more than $150,000 raised over 420 winners across Australasia.

In conjunction with WomenCan, Team Teal donations will support the Australian and New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group’s Survivors Teaching Students program. The program educates future medical professionals to improve the diagnosis and care of women with gynaecological cancer.

 

Chloe Butler and fellow drivers after the Team Teal Female Drivers Invitation race in 2023.

 

QUEENSLAND AMBASSADORS

Chloe Butler

  • Age: 21

  • Debut Season: 17/18

  • Total Starts: 3616

  • Total Wins: 416

  • Total Placings: 888

"I love it, it’s my favourite time of the year to get out there and raise as much money as we can with the Team Teal pants on and knowing it’s going to a good cause.

It’s always good when we raise enough money and it means a lot knowing that whenever you go over the line that you’re raising that bit of money for those that need it.”

Taleah McMullen

  • Age: 23
  • Debut Season: 16/17
  • Total Starts: 5183
  • Total Wins: 575 
  • Total Placings: 1228 

‘I look forward to participating in Team Teal because it shines a light on this terrible disease, helping to raise funds and awareness, so that we can limit its impact on the community.’


 

TEAM TEAL HISTORY

The Team Teal campaign was created by Duncan McPherson OAM who lost his wife Lyn to ovarian cancer in 2010. In failing health, Lyn and her family began fundraising for ovarian cancer research and nurses supporting women in the research units, an initiative that Duncan McPherson connected with his passion for harness racing, co-founding Team Teal with fellow owners and trainers, Michael Taranto and Jim Connolly.

The campaign expanded from Victoria to New South Wales in 2016, to all Australian states in 2017 and internationally to New Zealand in 2018. The vision of Team Teal Is to continue to expand our efforts in raising awareness and much-needed funds for ovarian cancer research nurses and Survivors Teaching Students – Saving Women’s Lives.

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