HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College women's volleyball team will host "Dig Pink Night" on Friday (Oct. 23) when they host the Brevard College Tornados in a South Atlantic Conference match.
The Cobras will wear special pink jerseys, courtesy of BSN Sports and Carolina Printing and Trophy, in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month. Proceeds from the match will benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The Coker women's volleyball team will be donating $1 for every dig recorded in Friday night's match.
Also, Coker's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) in conjunction with Salon Indigo in Hartsville, S.C. will sell pink hair extensions for $10.
Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the match to help support the "Dig Pink" National Breast Cancer Awareness Rally and the Cobras. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m. at Coker's Harris E. and Louise H. DeLoach Center.
About Susan G. Komen Foundation
In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became the Susan G. Komen® organization and the beginning of a global movement. What was started with $200 and a shoebox full of potential donor names has now grown into the world's largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer. To date, we've invested more than $2.6 billion in groundbreaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 30 countries. Our efforts have helped reduce death rates from breast cancer by 34 percent since 1990; and has helped improve five-year relative survival rates for early stage cancers from 74 to 99 percent. And we won't stop until our promise is fulfilled.