50+ Ride from the Heart is a team made up of friends and family of Ava Cooper, uniting to raise $10,000 this year on her behalf for the American Heart Association.

Ava's Story, by mom, Jamie Cooper:

Ava was born on 7-1-2014 with several congenital heart defects. My husband Sean and I knew of these defects by my 21st week of pregnancy. We were treated by Akron Children’s Maternal Fetal team. Ava was born full term at 39 weeks with little complication. She was officially diagnosed with the following: dextrocardia, which means her heart is on the opposite side of the chest. She has a hole in her heart (VSD) that has not closed. She is missing her pulmonary artery, one of the main pumping vessels that carry oxygenated blood cells to the rest of the body. Lastly, transposition of the great vessels; meaning her two main arteries leaving the heart are reversed. These heart defects alone, are very rare but coupled together are even more rare. She had two open heart surgeries at birth, one at 6 days old and another at 14 days old. She had her third surgery at 1 year old and we are embarking on her 4th surgery in September of this year.

Please help us reach our goal of $10,000 dollars! Donations will be accepted through September 9, 2019.