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Volleyball team doing its part to "Dig for the Cure"

Waynesburg volleyball program joins others to help fight breast cancer



Waynesburg (Aug. 28)–While getting back to the top of the conference mountain is the main goal of any team in the Presidents' Athletic Conference every year, The Waynesburg University volleyball team has joined with several other conference schools to take on an even more important and devastating opponent.

This season, the Yellow Jackets will take part in the "Dig for the Cure" campaign during their home match against Saint Vincent College on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. While Waynesburg volleyball matches are usually free to get in to, but for that night, a one dollar entrance fee will be collected at the entrance to the match, with all proceeds going to further Breast Cancer research and prevention by way of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, formerly known as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

"I'm just really excited that we have the opportunity to spread the word about the research concerning breast cancer," said Waynesburg University head volleyball coach Stephanie Benkowski.

Both teams will wear pink tee shirts and plan on selling tee shirts at the door to support breast cancer research. Benkowski was inspired by some of her PAC opponents to get involved with the program.

"Westminster and Grove City have done it over the last couple of years," Benkowski said. "I just thought it would be a really good cause."

The "Dig for the Cure" campaign was originally started in 2003 by Charlotte head coach Lisa Marston, whose mother was a breast cancer survivor, and has spread to volleyball programs across the country in recent years. Last year, the campaign raised almost a quarter of a million dollars from the 93 participating programs.
 
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure 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. Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like Dig for the Cure, the foundation has invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill the promise of becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

For more information about breast health or breast cancer, visit the Foundation's award-winning Web site at www.komen.org or call the Foundation's National Toll-Free Breast Care Helpline at 1.800 I'M AWARE(r) (1.800.462.9273).
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