Number of Participants: 28
Hours Donated: 2
Value of Time Served: $473
Event Type: Health & Medicine
Sport: Lacrosse
Date: October 22, 2013
Location:
Wantagh
New York 11793, United States
About:
Wantagh, N.Y. – On Sunday, October 20, the Molloy College women’s lacrosse team participated in the American Cancer Society’s annual event at Jones Beach (Wantagh, N.Y.): “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.”
“I feel that as women this is important for them to not only walk to raise money to find a cure, but also to see the lives it has touched,” commented Molloy Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Tom Campolettano. “I have had two family members suffer from this disease; I am sure that some of the girls have had someone they know as well. I am very proud of the fact that 23 girls took the time to wake up very early on a Sunday to walk for the cure.”
This marks the eighth-straight year that the Lions have participated in this walk.
The event, which was created in 1984, has inspired over eight million people to walk, and raised more than $460 million in the fight against breast cancer. The disease is the second-leading cancer found in women in the United States, and results in the second-most cancer deaths amongst women as well. As a result of the Making Strides events, more than four million women have been afforded potentially life-saving screening tests.
To view the American Cancer Society’s webpage pertaining to 2013 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event, including a running tally of how much money was raised, please click here.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
For 100 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has worked relentlessly to save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Together with millions of our supporters worldwide, we’re helping people stay well, helping people get well, finding cures, and fighting back against cancer.
To visit the American Cancer Society’s official website, please click this link: http://www.cancer.org/.
Provided by the Molloy Sports Information Department.
