Kean Athletic News

Kean Joins "Think Pink" Campaign

Union, N.J. (1/18/08) - Join the Kean University women's basketball team and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) "Think Pink" initiative on February 9, 2008 as the Cougars take on Rutgers-Newark in Harwood Arena at 1 p.m.

Tickets for the game are $5 for adults and $2 for students, children and seniors. All proceeds from the game will be donated to the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

The Cougars are also selling Kean Blue Thinks Pink t-shirts for $15.00 and pink bracelets for $2.00.  All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

Think Pink is a global, unified effort for the WBCA's nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.

The WBCA began "Think Pink" in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year of the WBCA's "Think Pink" a success. This year's Think Pink" week will be held February 8 - 17 and the 2008 initiative has already unified over 600 women's basketball teams for the cause.

This past fall, the Kean University Department of Athletics, in conjunction with the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC), raised more than $4,000 in support of breast cancer awareness during home contests in the month of October.

During the week of October 20-27^th, football, women's soccer, field hockey and volleyball teams each participated by either wearing pink shirts during warm-ups or by lacing pink shoelaces in their game shoes.  Coaches and support staff also joined the cause, by wearing pink shirts on the sidelines.  The Richard Stockton volleyball team as well as William Paterson women's soccer team also participated in the cause by wearing pink during warm-ups.