McLennan women’s basketball to host Play4Kay game

McLennan's women's basketball team will host its annual Play4Kay game at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18 in The Highlands gym.

Fans are encourages to wear pink and make a donation to help the Highlassies fight breast cancer. Donations will benefit the local Susan G. Komen Foundation affiliate.

Play4Kay is a partnership between the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and The V Foundation to be a part of finding an answer in the fight against women's cancers through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved and unifying people for a common cause. 

Coach Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, and passed away on January 24, 2009, after facing her third bout with the disease. With the creation of the Fund, Coach Yow hoped to raise money to further cutting-edge research conducted by the nation's top doctors and medical experts to allow more and more cancer patients to have access to experimental drugs and clinical trials.

Since the majority of these research projects are privately funded, these researchers desperately need our support in order for them to continue to make strides in finding a cure for cancer. To date, the Fund has contributed over $3.9 million in support of women's cancer research.