A bevy of bicycle riders making an amazing 4,500 mile trek from Austin, Texas all the way to Anchorage, Alaska are expected to peddle through Woodward and spend the night Sunday. In all, 79, undergraduate and graduate, students from the University of Texas at Austin will pedal over 4,500 miles in support of the fight […]

Members of Texas 4000, a group of University of Texas bicyclists that are making the ride from Austin to Alaska to raise money for cancer, made a stop at Raising Cane’s in Flower Mound on Wednesday. Among the riders is Courtney Schutze, a 2009 Flower Mound High School graduate. Amy Wong, a 2010 FMHS grad, […]

Pictured are members of the Texas 4000, an organization made up of students from the University of Texas in Austin. Founded in 2004, Texas 4000 is a way to continue the fight against cancer by raising funds for cancer research; sharing hope, knowledge and charity through the continent; and their creation of the longest charity […]

Nearly 30 students from the Texas 4000 cycling team will roll into the Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant in Flower Mound on Wednesday to top-off before continuing on their 4,500-mile trek to Alaska to raise money in the fight against cancer. One of those students is Courtney Schutze, ride director and a Flower Mound High […]

The world’s longest charity bicycle ride — Texas 4000 for Cancer — is set to receive a Texas-sized welcome from the Shreveport community Sunday as they roll into downtown. Groups of 60 to 100 University of Texas at Austin students make an annual 70-day, 4,687 mile bike trek from the Austin campus to Anchorage, Alaska […]

It has been almost 18 months since 23-year-old Matthew Atwell learned he would bike from Texas to Alaska — a trip of 70 days and more than 4,500 miles. Atwell, an aerospace engineering graduate from the University of Texas, is part of an annual cancer awareness ride, the Texas 4000, which rolled through Dallas on […]

Twenty four students from the University of Texas are on their way to complete a bike trek from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. They’ve stopped in the Key City for the night to rest up for the 4000 mile ride. The group is staying at the First Baptist Church in Abilene. It’s not a ride for […]

Every year Texas 4000 competitively selects University of Texas students for a program designed to cultivate the next generation to lead the fight against cancer. The culmination of the students’ fundraising, training and volunteering is a 70 day bike ride from Austin to Anchorage. All along their 3 routes, the cyclists raise awareness and financial […]

TEMPLE — Raising funds and promoting cancer awareness, a team of 27 cyclists with Texas 4000 camped out in the city’s Summit Recreation Center on Sunday. Originally starting from Austin, and bound for Anchorage, Alaska, they were scheduled to depart for College Station at 7 a.m. today. Ross McGarity, assistant ride director, said their route […]

COLLEGE STATION – A group of Longhorns invaded College Station by bicycle Monday but it’s all for a good cause. 27 present students and recent graduates of The University of Texas stopped for the night at College Station High School as part of Texas 4000. It’s a 4,500 mile bicycle ride from Austin to Anchorage, […]