We received this great story about our 7th Grade Football team and had to share:
I am the Team Mom for Owasso White 7th Grade Football and this year our team decided to take a different approach to Breast Cancer Awareness.
Each year we are encouraged by the Future Owasso Ram Organization to wear pink in the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness. Beyond just our organization we see pink throughout the entire INFC to support it. Owasso White realized that though there is much encouragement to wear pink we are really only supporting retailers when we “buy” pink. We are not actually “supporting” pink because purchasing apparel through retailers if at most only gives 10% of proceeds to a foundation.
With that realization, our team this year opted to not purchase any new pink apparel and they decided to forgo their end of season party funds to support the true intent behind wearing pink.
Owasso White 7th Grade Football was able to come up with $500.00!!! In addition, the family of our boys graciously provided loved ones who have been affected by breast cancer to show how people without wearing pink have been affected. We feel that donating funds and acknowledging the loved ones would be a much more impactful movement than just walking out on the field with pink socks or pink shoelaces.
As a team mom, I love our team, I love our boys, and I am so proud of what they are trying to accomplish. In addition, our head coach, Tevin Austin, lost his mother not that long ago to cancer (not breast) so his heart is full of love for our boys and sadness for how cancer can be so devastating.
We were so lucky to have the Executive Director of the Tulsa Susan G. Komen Foundation, Christy Southard, present to accept our check and I am hoping you could publish a piece that would shed life to how to “support” not just “buy” pink and how Owasso White has decided to make a movement that encourages other teams to do just that.
Candice Moore
