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COLUMBIA - University of Missouri students danced for 13.1 hours at the annual Mizzou Dance Marathon on Saturday and raised $152,402.44 for the MU Children’s Hospital.

The Mizzou Dance Marathon is now the largest student-run philanthropy on its campus. The organization makes a $75,000 yearly pledge to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals to support the hematogloy/oncology department, the music therapy program, part-time teacher’s salaries and the TeleHealth Loving Care program.

Donations for this year's marathon ranked 18^th in the nation amongst dance marathon events that support 150 Children’s Miracle Network Hospital programs.