Raiders Are Thinking Pink For A Cure

Nashua, NH - October is breast cancer awareness month and the Rivier College Raider are doing their part to help the cause.  Throughout the month each Raider team, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and field hockey, will be hosting a think pink event to help raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the largest breast cancer research charity in the world.

On Saturday, October 2nd, both the men's and women's soccer teams will be sporting pink socks during the family weekend Kick Pink games against St. Joseph's College of Maine.  During the games, the Raiders will be asking for small donations as well as raffling off Rivier College gift bags during half time to help raise money to donate to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.  The men's soccer game will kick off at 1:00 pm with the women's game following around 3:00 pm.

On Tuesday, October 5th the women's voleyball team will host their own Dig Pink event.  the team will be asking for a $1.00 donation at the entrance, for which each person who donated will get a pink ribbon to wear during the game.  The women will be playing in pink socks and warming up in pink shirts for the night, with pink ribbons in their hair to help get the message out.  During the match a 50/50 raffle is planned as well as a small bake sale and additional donation jars will be available.

Finally, on Sunday, October 17th, the women's field hockey team will also sport the pink socks as they help to raise money in the fight against breast cancer.  Like the three teams before them, pink ribbons will be given in return for all donations and a halftime raffle will be used to raise more money.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly known as The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, often referred to as simply Komen, is an organization supporting breast cancer research. Since its inception in 1982, Komen has invested over $1.5 billion for research, education and health services, making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world. Today, Komen has more than 100,000 volunteers working in a network of 125 affiliates worldwide.

Susan Goodman Komen was born October 31, 1943 in Peoria, Illinois, and was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33 and died three years later, in 1980.  Komen's younger sister, Nancy Goodman Brinker, who felt that Susan's outcome might have been better if patients knew more about cancer and its treatment, and remembering a promise to her sister that she would find a way to speed up breast cancer research, founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Komen's memory in 1982.

In 2007, the 25th anniversary of the organization, it changed its name to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, created a new logo, and adopted the explicit mission "to end breast cancer forever".

The Raider family is proud to be able to help such a great and worldly organization in their effort to raise funds for research in breast cancer.