Title : Louisville women's basketball -- Walz pledges to help Kay Yow Cancer Fund -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
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Louisville women's basketball -- Walz pledges to help Kay Yow Cancer Fund -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
LOUISVILLE WBB HEAD COACH JEFF WALZ AND WIFE TO DONATE A $1 FOR EACH FAN IN ATTENDANCE OVER 10,000 THURSDAY NIGHT TO CANCER FUND AND HAS THAT OFFER DOUBLED
Kay Yow was the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University from 1975-2009. She died of stage 4 Breast Cancer in January of 2009. During her career, Kay won over 700 games and coached thee USA Women's Basketball team to a gold medal in 1988.
Yow had a dream. To unite the players, coaches and fans of women's college basketball on a cause for the greater good that reached far beyond the wins and losses of college basketball. The Kay You Cancer Fund is a 501(c)3 Foundation that was designed to fight against women's cancers.
Jeff Walz, the head women's basketball coach at the University of Louisville, is all-in on helping the foundation. In a Tweet Monday night he announced:
#cardnation, on Thursday night my wife and I will donate $1 dollar for every fan over 10,000 to the @KayYowFund. Come out and let's see how much we can raise to help beat cancer. #onedollaratatime
Six hours later, an anonymous donor informed Walz that they would double every dollar that Walz and Lauren donated. $3 per person for the fund.
Thursday night is the Cardinals Play4Kay night and they'll bring Virginia into the KFC YUM! Center for a Thursday night contest against JoAnne Boyle and the Wahoos. The game, itself, is important to both squads...Louisville trying to remain atop the ACC Standings and Virginia ...at 9-5 trying to win and get in the top 4 of the conference and receive the two-round bye.
Beyond the game's positioning implications, though, Thursday is much more important than wins and losses. It is a chance for Cardinal fans to come out and show that they are humanitarians in addition to great basketball fans. We all have known someone that has had cancer. Someone that has died of cancer. The long and debilitating fight. Yow was diagnosed in 1987, seemingly had it beat until it returned in 2004.
Fill this place up! |
Louisville attendance for night, during the week games has been a bit short of 10,000. It's time to change that. It's time to draw back those 300 levels curtains and "pack the bucket" with bodies. The question eventually arises...what will happen if the attendance doesn't reach 10,000? I'm tossing that question out. Fake news. Not going to be a problem. Cardinal fans will respond, will make the effort and fill that lower bowl.
In return, you'll get Durr, Hines-Allen and the rest of the daring and daunting Cardinals that have been a bright spot in a bleak 2017-18 for Cardinal athletics. You'll also be helping to make a difference in another battle. A life-changing, life ending battle.
Shortly before my mother died in 1998, her body emaciated and ravaged by cancer, she told me she wanted to go to the ocean. She did not want to die in a hospital. She wanted the serenity of watching the water come in and out. I discussed it with her oncologist. He told me she'd never survive the journey. I went ahead and booked the trip anyway. Sadly, she did die in the hospital.
Here's your chance to make some waves, Cardinal fans. All fans. All those who would like to punch cancer right in the gut and tell it to go away and not return.
Cancer sucks.
paulie
xxxxx
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