NORMAL, Ill.  – With the return of the fifth-annual women's basketball Play 4Kay cancer awareness game on the horizon, Illinois State Athletics will be raising money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund by selling luminaires, to honor loved ones who have battled or are currently battling the disease, at upcoming women's basketball games. The Play 4Kay game will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8, when the women's basketball team takes on foe Drake.
Luminaries can be purchased for a $5 suggested price, at the following Redbird women's basketball games, as well as a home men's basketball game.
This year's dates for luminary sales are:
January 30 vs. Bradley
February 1 vs. Loyola
February 3 Men's Basketball vs. Evansville
February 6 vs. Northern Iowa
February 8 vs. Drake (Play 4Kay)
Patrons wishing to attend this game as a fan can purchase $1 tickets from the Illinois State Athletics Ticket Office online at GoRedbirds.com, by phone at (309) 438-8000 or in-person at one of the ISU Athletics Ticket Offices located either at Redbird Arena or Hancock Stadium, open Monday thru Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For questions about this event, please contact Assistant Director of Marketing Zach Schroeder at zrschro@ilstu.edu, or by phone at (309) 438-5000.
The ISU Athletics Department and women's basketball team would like to give a special thanks to the generous sponsors that make the Play 4Kay event possible, including Advocate Bromenn Medical Center, Community Cancer Center, Mennonite College of Nursing and the Student Nurses Association at Illinois State University.
Play 4Kay game efforts were started by the late Kay Yow, former North Carolina State head women's basketball coach. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and fought the disease three times until her death in 2009. While courageously battling cancer, Coach Yow started the Kay Yow Cancer Fund in 2007, which serves to raise money for scientific research and to assist the efforts to fight against women's cancers. To date, the fund has grown nationwide and contributed just shy of $4 million to support cancer research.
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