Women's Basketball Welcomes Everyone to Pink Zone Game posted 2/16/09
Wear pink to the Merillat Center on Wednesday, Feb. 18 in support of breast cancer awareness.

ADRIAN, Mich. - The Adrian College women's basketball team is partnering with the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) in their "Pink Zone" initiative to help raise awareness of breast cancer. The team is asking everyone who attends Wednesday night's game against Kalamazoo (7:30 tip) to wear pink and bring a donation to help against this deadly disease.

The WBCA "Pink Zone" initiative is a global, unified effort to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses and in communities. The campaign began in 2007 and more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,100 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for all women and the leading cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 20 and 59. In the United States, breast cancer is expected to be newly diagnosed every three minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes.

Please come out to the Merillat Center and support this nobel cause on Wednesday, Feb. 18. For more information, please visit the WBCA website at http://www.wbca.org/pinkzone.asp