09/28/2026
Allie’s Angels Marks Ten Years Helping Page Children Battling Illnesses
It’s a Page tradition now.
For the tenth year in a row, a helicopter carrying Allie Hansen landed on the fifty-yard line of Page High School’s football field to deliver the game ball. This year Allie was joined in the helicopter by her brother Mason Hansen, a wide receiver for the Sand Devils, and Molly Self, this year’s Allie’s Angel.
Since 2017, Allie’s Angels has joined together with the Sand Devil football team and Page businesses for its annual fundraiser. Allie’s Angels raises money for Page families who are battling cancer or other long-term illnesses. This year’s Allie's Angel is Molly Self, who earlier this year was diagnosed with Alveolar rhabdomysarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer.
Allies’ Angels raised just over $18,000 this year, the largest amount it has ever raised. Allie’s Angels has several long-time, dedicated sponsors. Page Lumber has been an Allie’s Angels sponsor since its first year. They donate $400 for every touchdown the Sand Devils score that game. Dixie’s Lower Antelope Canyon Tours is also a long-time sponsor. They also donate $400 for every touchdown the Sand Devils score that game. Torgenson Law and Dam Outlet each donate $200 for every extra point, and Beans and Bubbles donates $100 for every quarterback sack. This year the Sand Devils scored 11 touchdowns, had nine extra points and three sacks.
The Allie’s Angels Foundation is named after Allie Hansen who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in October 2016, a week before she turned nine. For the Hansens, it began a two and a half year odyssey of hospitals and mounting debt as they drove back and forth to Phoenix three times a week.
As the Hansens sat in hospital waiting rooms they met other families who had children with cancer, and they discovered that most of the families were also struggling with the finances that come from caring for a child with cancer. In September 2017, CJ and Brittany started the Allie’s Angels Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises money to help families who have a child fighting cancer or other long-term illness.
In 2019, Allie was given the great news that her cancer was in remission, and since then she has taken on a larger role at Allie’s Angels and is now one of its board members.
Perhaps the most important roles Allie and Brittany Hansen do for the foundation is offer empathy and words of comfort for kids and parents going through their own cancer battles.
“I’ve been able to talk to Molly’s dad several times,” Brittany said. “One day he gave me a hug and said, `I feel so bad for what you went through because I had no idea until now how hard that was.’”
“It is such a roller coaster ride of emotions to go through,” Brittany said. “We had our highest of highs and lowest and lows. We saw miracles and we had incredible people show up and help. But on the next trip we might learn there was a complication, or Ally would need extra day or week in the hospital. It is exhausting and consuming both physically and emotionally. There’s no break. Cancer doesn’t stop for birthdays or holidays. For two and a half years we lived, breathed and slept cancer. Our life was appointments, transfusions and blood counts. But we made it through. One of the main things we can do is let the families we help know that they will make it through too.”
Page High School head coach Ty Bennett, says the Allie’s Angels game is the team’s favorite game of the year. The coaches, the players and everyone else involved is proud to be a key player in the Allie’s Angels Foundation.
“They played with a different purpose Friday night,” said Coach Bennett. “They knew what this game was about, they knew how important this was. Regardless of who we play, regardless of the competition, it’s our favorite game of the year because we’re doing it for a reason other than ourselves.”
Allie Hansen, the face and the force behind Allie’s Angels, who fought Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and won, graduated from Page High School last June. The two and a half years she battled cancer influenced her outlook on life. That experience, terrible as it was, helped shape her into the compassionate person she is today.
“Was it incredibly hard? Absolutely. Am I still grateful it happened? Absolutely. Because I’m so proud of who I am today, and I know I wouldn’t be the person I am today had I not suffered such a trial.”
Her plan is to pursue motivational speaking and social media production.
“I have such a strong desire to change the world and show people that we can love life, that we can love each other,” she said. “I want to make a strong impact. I think I was kept on this earth for a reason. I’m going to start chasing those dreams, chasing those goals.”
She is moving to Los Angeles this Thursday to get started on her dreams.
“I feel like I don’t have words to express my gratitude to this community, for always gathering together,” she said. “It’s truly amazing to be a part of something like this smalltown community, and all the people who sacrifice to make amazing things happen.”
Brittany Hansen is Founder and President of Allie’s Angels. CJ Hansen is Founder and Treasurer. Kelly Hansen is Founder and Vice President and Jodi Tate is Secretary. The Board Members are CJ Hansen, Brittany Hansen, Allie Hansen, Kelly Hansen, Kenzie Hansen, Erin Tate, Jodi Tate, Zoey Tate, Shandiin Begay, Amanda Smith, Bridget Gardner, Meredith Halvorsen and Braedyn Bennett.
