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NEWARK, N.J. (October 13, 2016) – The Rutgers University-Newark women's soccer and women's volleyball programs will participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Sunday, October 16 in Newark.
The two teams are currently raising money for the cause and those interested in donating can
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Additionally, gate receipts from Wednesday's women's soccer game and Thursday's women's volleyball contest will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks are the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting communities with a shared determination to help free the world from the pain and suffering of breast cancer. Passionate walk participants raise critical funds that enable the American Cancer Society to fund innovative research; provide free, information and support to anyone touched by breast cancer; and help people reduce their breast cancer risk or find it early when it's most treatable.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. Sunday morning and the walk gets underway at 10 a.m. at 25 Lafayette St. in Newark at the New Jersey Devils Championship Plaza outside the Prudential Center.
The event is the 19th-annual event in Newark and at the time of this writing, nearly 2,000 participants have raised almost $111,000.
Rutgers-Newark and the Department of Athletics is urging all student-athletes, R-N community members, staff and faculty to join the walk in support of a great cause as the American Cancer Society has been saving lives for more than a century. Every day, 500 lives that would have otherwise been lost to cancer are saved. None of it would be possible without the generosity of donors. Donor dollars provide help to the people who are fighting breast cancer in every community, while working to free the world from the pain and suffering of breast cancer tomorrow.
The progress they are making because of the passion of Making Strides supporters is remarkable. And they have only just begun. Events such as Sunday's and the funds those events raise help promoting prevention and early detection, support patients in their recovery, pursuing lifesaving treatments and fighting back.
