Breast Cancer Awareness Game This Sunday

  2ND ANNUAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS GAME
Sunday, March 28, 2010 

This Sunday, March 28, the St. Mary's College of Maryland women’s lacrosse team will be holding its 2nd Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game versus No. 1 Salisbury University at 2:00 pm in Seahawk Stadium in beautiful St. Mary’s City.

This game will be played in remembrance of Christine A. DeWitt, the mother of a player I once coached, who lost her life to this disease last year as well as all individuals affected by breast cancer.  The lacrosse team will be selling T-shirts in order to raise funds for Climb for Hope, a division of breast cancer research that Christine believed in very strongly.

Climb for Hope was organized to raise and channel funds towards targeted and promising research in the fight against breast cancer.  Its mission is to find a viable treatment for breast cancer within the next three years.  In the past two years, the organization has raised over $550,000 for a vaccine being developed at Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Leisha Emens.  This research will one day allow patients to successfully battle the disease using a specialized vaccine in conjunction with lower doses of chemotherapy.  Not only does the vaccine address some of the most aggressive and lethal forms of breast cancer, but the research is expected to promote treatment advances for many forms of cancer as well (www.climbforhope.com).

To reserve a pink lacrosse T-shirt, please contact head coach Kara Reber at klreber@smcm.edu or by phone at 240-895-3304.  Shirts are $10 and come in adult S, M, L, XL, XXL.  For those that reserve a shirt, you'll be able to pick up your T-shirt(s) at the game on Sunday.  Cash donations are also welcome.  If you have not purchased or reserved a T-shirt yet, you may still get one at the game.

We would like for you to wear your pink T-shirt to our game on the Sunday as we would like to have a “pink-out” of the stadium.  Our goal is to raise over $3,000.00.

Please join us for this event and help support a cause that affects many of our lives.

See you at the game!