Build A Team

A team is a group of Riders, Virtual Riders, and/or volunteers. Creating a team allows friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers to participate in BellRinger together. Teams can train and fundraise together leading up to BellRinger Weekend. In addition to the individual Rider Profile pages, a separate team profile page allows you to highlight your team roster and share why your team is Riding.

A Pack is a group of BellRinger teams formed by a large organization or community group. A Pack allows an organization that would otherwise have an extremely large team to organize itself into smaller teams within their Pack. Packs operate similarly to teams to encourage Riders to work together on fundraising, train together, and enjoy BellRinger Weekend with peers. If your group is interested in starting a Pack, please contact BellRinger, and we can help you set one up.

You can join a team during or after registering for BellRinger. During the registration process you will be prompted to join a team, create a team, or continue as a solo participant. After registration, you can log in to your Rider, Virtual Rider, or volunteer Dashboard and select the “Join a Team” option from the left-side menu. This will prompt you to search for and select the team you’d like to join.

If you’d like to create your own team, you can do so during or after the registration process. During the registration process you’ll be prompted to join a team, create a team, or continue as a solo participant. After registration, you can create a team by logging into your Rider, Virtual Rider, or volunteer Dashboard and selecting the “Create a team” option. When you create a team, you become the team Captain, or leader, of that team. You can always assign a new captain for your team by contacting BellRinger.

The fund sharing period for BellRinger 2023 will occur in the two weeks prior to the December 21, 2023 fundraising deadline. A member of our team will be in touch with captains of teams eligible for sharing during this time.

Funds donated directly to the team may be shared among individual team Riders and Virtual Riders who still need additional funds to reach their fundraising commitment.

If an individual team member has exceeded their fundraising commitment, their excess funds can be distributed to another member of the team who has not met their commitment.

Each team will set their fund sharing guidelines individually. For ideas and guidance, check out the Team Toolkit in the Resources section of your Rider Dashboard. While we support fund sharing, we do ask that you use fund sharing to supplement, not drive, your individual fundraising efforts. Keep in mind that dollars shared ultimately affect the total dollars raised for life-saving cancer research. All requests to share funds must be emailed to Ride@BellRinger.org by your team captain.

There are four recommended hotels in the Arlington and DC area that we suggest for anyone traveling to BellRinger. Check out their websites and book your room here:

• Residence Inn by Marriott, Arlington Rosslyn
• Hyatt Centric, Arlington
• Washington Marriott, Georgetown
• Embassy Suites by Hilton, Georgetown

We have continuous shuttle services and professional bike truck services to return you and your bike safely to Georgetown after you have finished enjoying the finish line celebration. You are also welcome to have a friend or family member pick you up!