The Redhawks face Walnut Grove at Kuykendall Stadium Thursday for the annual Pink Out game with students encouraged to dress in pink in recognition of breast cancer awareness month.
“As young people, we take it for granted that we’ll always be around. Oh, that will never happen to us,” SPED Evaluation Clerk Regina Booth said in a previous interview with Wingspan. “But you know what? It can. Or it can happen to your best friend. Or it can happen to your mom, or your sister, or your aunt. Not just women, it can happen to men. And so it’s just being aware and taking care of that. So it’s not just for the girls, it’s for the guys too, for the males. Go and get checked. Go and have your checkup. It’s very important.”
Approximately one in eight women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer according to the American Cancer Society.
“It’s important to me because many people have to suffer from it, and I feel if we help, it will put a word out to everyone,” senior Brandon Stephens said. “Also it’s a serious thing.”
According to The City of Hope, women are 99% more likely than men to be diagnosed with breast cancer and Thursday’s Pink Out event is designed to help spread the word.
“I think raising breast cancer awareness at football games is a good idea because a football game is a social event and a lot of people will know about it so the message will spread easily,” senior Deeksha Narasimhan said.
