NORMAL, Ill.  – The fifth-annual women's basketball Play4Kay cancer awareness game returns to Redbird Arena Sunday, Feb. 8, when the women's basketball team takes on Drake at 2 p.m. Illinois State will be raising money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund by adding Nike Play4Kay T-shirt sales of available options for fans to support cancer research. A grey or black $25 Nike Dri-fit T-shirt are the chosen clothing items ISU has made available to its fans. Shirts will be available for purchase starting Friday, Feb. 6, near the East entrance of the arena concourse. Limited quantities are available.
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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