red Zone Donates $255,000 to Beneficiaries in support of Breast melanoma analysis

June 28, 2017

school PARK, Pa. – For the sixth-straight year, the Penn State girls's basketball application's Play4Kay benefitting crimson Zone event will donate over $200,000 to the six beneficiaries that continue to champion the schooling about and analysis for discovering a cure for breast cancer. The 2017 fundraising total reached $255,000, which marks the third highest total earned within the events 11-yr history.

The dollars raised on the 2017 Play4Kay benefitting pink Zone online game were presented to Geisinger-Lewistown health facility, JC Blair Memorial clinic, Kay Yow cancer Fund, Mount Nittany scientific middle, Pennsylvania Breast cancer Coalition and Penn State melanoma Institute on the Penn State fitness Milton S. Hershey clinical middle.

A crowd of eight,213 welcomed 504 survivors that totaled 4,090 years of survivorship to the Bryce Jordan core floor during the halftime get together at the 2017 event, which saw Penn State topple No. 24/25 Michigan, seventy six-seventy five.

within the event's eleventh yr, the woman Lions have donated greater than $1.85 million to a lot of local, regional and country wide breast cancer charities. The 2017 experience total of $255,000 ranks No. 3 on the giving listing, behind the checklist-environment 2014 experience, which donated $310,000, and the 2013 event that totaled $260,000 of money raised to fund breast cancer research. The 2013 and 2014 pursuits were every recognized as the Play for Kay Initiative Division I winners.

"The endured boom and support that our community shows for our Play4Kay video game benefitting pink Zone adventure is unbelievable," referred to head instruct Coquese Washington. "This experience is particularly significant to our complete application – gamers, coaches, personnel and administrators – and brings national cognizance to our campus for the efforts in the combat to cure breast cancer. Our most heartfelt thanks exit to the entire sponsors, fans and, of route, breast melanoma survivors that make this adventure such a special part of our software each yr."

The girl Lions' 2017 Play4Kay online game benefiting pink Zone, in-type donors covered: Centre daily times, Comcast, forever Broadcasting, Fullington Trailways, town and dress, WTAJ/WeAreCentralPA.com, Jersey Mike's Subs, gigantic foods, Bieber Trailways, Bailey coach, David Thomas Trailways, Grove Printing, Klein Bus, MlakerTrailways, Susquehanna Trailways, Wolf's Bus traces, Chip Mock/Mock Creations, Stor-All Self-Storage, u.s.a.store (throughout from Wegman's), and The Penn State Bakery.