For the fifth straight year, Corban's women's basketball team will be helping raise awareness about breast cancer by getting involved with the WBCA Pink Zone.
Pink Zone Coming to Corban on 4th of February
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SALEM, Ore. – Two weekends from now, Corban University's C.E. Jeffers Sports Center will be decorated in a sea of pink for the fifth straight year helping to raise awareness about breast cancer and the Kay Yow Foundation.
"Pink Zone is something that the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association (WBCA) started five years ago because breast cancer awareness was a big deal and Kay Yow, the former coach at N.C. State and catalyst for starting Pink Zone, was battling the disease before losing her life to cancer in January of 2009," said twelfth-year head coach Terry Williams. "It fell in line with the Jimmy V Foundation, which raises cancer awareness through men's basketball, and we jumped on board right away with our summer camp."
On Friday, February 4th, Corban's women's basketball team will be donning pink uniforms when the Warriors take on conference rival Concordia beginning at 5:30 p.m. inside the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center. Both Corban and Concordia will be wearing Pink Zone t-shirts during warm-ups, as a way to help raise breast cancer awareness through the community.
"A lot of our player's families had some connection with cancer and I could also relate, as my mother dealt with cancer while I was in high school," said Williams. "Being a part of the Kay Yow Foundation and Pink Zone is a good thing for us both as a University and basketball program."
Over the past four years, the WBCA Pink Zone has raised more than $3.3 million for women's cancer research as well as reaching out to more than 2.7 million fans and has unified more than 4,700 participants. Last year, just over 1,800 teams and organizations participated in WBCA Pink Zone.
"We jumped on the bandwagon the first year, along with Eastern Oregon, and now I think that every school in the conference does something related to Pink Zone," commented Williams. "It has become a good event for cancer research and I think that it is a good thing that we get involved in any type of off-the-court activities that relate to healthy living."
So far this year, Oregon Tech is the first member of the Cascade Collegiate Conference to host an event related with cancer awareness. The Hustlin' Owls men's and women's basketball teams both donned pink uniforms for the 2nd annual "Pink Out" Night on January 8th against Evergreen in tribute of late OIT president Martha Ann Dow and all those affected by the disease.
Over the next month or so, schools throughout the country will be participating in the annual WBCA Pink Zone and helping raise awareness about breast cancer.
If you would like to help in the cause, please contact Corban's head women's basketball coach Terry Williams at (503) 316-3397 or Tim Seiber, Assistant Director of Athletics, at (503) 589-8107.