The MATC Stormer women’s basketball team will be holding a “Pink Out” for two home games, Wed. Feb. 12 and Sat. Feb. 15, to raise awareness and donations for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. The foundation is named after legendary North Carolina State University women’s team head coach Kay Yow, who passed away from breast cancer in 2009 after a 22-year fight.
MATC will be selling t-shirts and lapel pins at the games and are also asking for direct donations to be made online. It’s a cause they have taken personally as breast cancer has impacted the team directly. Head Coach Jeff Lorenz described the impact it has made and how important it is for the team to play in the name of such an esteemed foundation. “It’s huge. My assistant coach, his sister-in-law passed away from breast cancer recently and our athletic director’s mom is recovering from breast cancer so it’s really important for us as a basketball community and as an athletic community at MATC to really put forth a good effort and hopefully we can develop a cure at some point of time for this disease,” Lorenz stated.
The Kay Yow Cancer Fund aims to raise money for advanced research and allow for a larger number of those with breast cancer to access new forms of treatment. Since its inception in 2007, it has raised over eight million dollars with two million of that coming from Play 4Kay games like MATC will be participating in.
The Wed. Feb. 12 game comes against Joliet Junior College at 5:30 p.m. and the Sat. Feb. 15 contest against Harper College begins at 12:00 p.m.. All MATC home games are played in the Reiman Gymnasium on the Alverno College campus.