Blue Hose Men’s Lacrosse Make Donation to Komen Foundation
CLINTON, S.C. –
Three days after the Blue Hose volleyball team raised over
$500 with their ‘Dig for the Cure’ Night on October 27,
Presbyterian College second-year head men’s lacrosse coach
Jason Childs announced Mond
ay
afternoon that his program would donate $823 to the
Greenville chapter of the Susan B. Komen Foundation as part
of October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The men’s lacrosse team raised the funds by working parking at the Blue Hose football game on October 28. Usually the profits made from parking on football game days goes to benefit the particular athletic team that managed parking that day.
This is an issue that has hit close to home for the Blue Hose men’s lacrosse as junior Reece LeMay’s mother, Vicki, was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this month. With the funds raised by the Komen Foundation to benefit breast cancer research, Mrs. LeMay has been beneficiary of those efforts as she looks to be in remission within the next few months, only needing to take one pill a day and receiving minimal radiation treatments.
Presbyterian’s donation will be an honorarium to celebrate Mrs. LeMay’s survivorship against breast cancer.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker to honor the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. Today, the Foundation is an international organization with a network of more than 75,000 volunteers working through local affiliates and events like the Komen Race for the Cure® to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease. Together with its affiliate network, corporate partners and generous donors, the Komen Foundation has raised more than $740 million for the fight against breast cancer.