Women's Basketball Team To Participate In WBCA’s Pink Zone™
Framingham, MA - The Framingham State College women's basketball team will be one of over 1,250 institutions and organizations participating in the 2009 Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Pink ZoneTM initiative when the Rams host MCLA on Saturday, February 14th, 2009.
The WBCA Pink ZoneTM initiative is a global, unified effort for the WBCA nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. This year's campaign runs from February 13-22, the Rams will be doing their part on the 14th during both the women's and men's games.
The WBCA Pink Zone, formerly known as "Think Pink", began in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. In that first year 120 schools participated and last year over 1,100 team and organizations took part.
The Rams will be wearing pink t-shirts for pregame warm-up and are encouraging those fans in attendance to show their support by wearing pink. They will also be dedicating the games to those in their lives that have been affected by breast cancer. The Rams will be collecting donations for pink memory ribbons that will be hung throughout the gym. The proceeds will be donated to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer FundTM, which was created in partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research in December 2007.
The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer FundTM, named for longtime North Carolina State women's basketball coach Kay Yow who recently passed away after a lengthy battle with breast cancer, raises money in the fight against women's cancers.
For more information on the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer FundTM and the WBCA Pink ZoneTM initiative, please visit www.wbca.org.