D'YOUVILLE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SUPPORTS KAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION

The D’Youville College women’s basketball team held their Pink Game on Wednesday, February
10 against Pitt-Bradford in their effort to raise awareness for Breast Cancer.

The Spartans donned warmups before the game to help raise awareness for the fight against Breast 
Cancer. Their warmups said “Spartan Pride” and “Believe” in pink letters, the color tied with Breast 
Cancer Awareness. The same shirts, along with 50/50 tickets raised funds that would go to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

Kay Yow was the former North Carolina State University head women’s basketball coach who battled 
breast cancer three times between 1987 and 2009. Yow was the head coach at NC State from 1975-2009 and is one of six Division I head women’s coaches to reach 700 wins. In 2009, Yow sadly lost her third battle with the disease. 

The goal of the fund is to raise money for research to find a cure for all cancers. The organization is 
driven by Yow’s hope to fund cutting-edge research still lives on after her passing. Since the Fund’s 
creation, $5.18 million has been raised for cancer research. Each year, it is estimated that over 230,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer and 2,350 men are as well.