Wil Carroll had no idea of the journey he was embarking on when he returned from college in 1995 to his family’s suburban Boston home and decided to visit the Pan-Mass Challenge, an annual cancer fundraising bike ride in New England.
“I came home looking for an internship,” he told The Monitor. Inspired by his parents’ past riding in the event, he “wandered down to the PMC and offered my services and ended up becoming an intern.”
As he prepares for his 30th PMC (Aug. 2-3), Carroll, a Montana City resident since 2011, has taken on nearly every role linked to the bike-a-thon: from intern to volunteer, full-time staff to rider and most recently, member of the board. He’s brought on a third-generation Carroll PMC’er – his 18-year-old son Andrew volunteers – and since starting to ride a dozen years ago, he’s raised more than $130,000 to fund research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
