All nine America East women's basketball teams will support Breast Cancer Awareness over the next month during what has become a national initiative throughout February in women's college basketball.
Here is the schedule of events:
Many teams will be supporting "Play4Kay." The Kay Yow Cancer Fund, in partnership with the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and The V Foundation, is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization committed to being a part of finding an answer in the fight against women’s cancers through raising money for scientific research and related projects, assisting the underserved and unifying people for a common cause.
Coach Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head women’s basketball coach, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, and passed away on January 24, 2009, after facing her third bout with the disease. With the creation of the Fund, Coach Yow hoped to raise money to further cutting-edge research conducted by the nation’s top doctors and medical experts to allow more and more cancer patients to have access to experimental drugs and clinical trials. Since the majority of these research projects are privately funded, researchers desperately need our support in order for them to continue to make strides in finding a cure for cancer.
To date, the Fund has contributed $5.18 million in support of women's cancer research.