Students bowl for cancer awareness
University of South Dakota students will help strike out cancer later this month, while also helping to spread the mission of the American Cancer Society.
College Against Cancers, a Colleges Against Cancer, the University of South Dakota’s student organization that works to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society, will hold its annual “Bowling for Boobs” event Oct. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Strike Zone Alley.
“This became our annual event, because it’s really geared more toward college-aged kids,” said senior Mackenzie Mears, president of Colleges Against Cancer.
The group holds “Bowling for Boobs” each October as the kickoff to their year of fundraising.
Sophomore Michelle Masselink, Colleges Against Cancer’s fundraising chair, said with October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it makes sense for the group to hold this event during the fall semester.
The “Bowling for Boobs” event is an evening of bowling at a discounted price, with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. Participants are not required to form teams for the event but are encouraged to bring their friends, Mears said.
Each event Colleges Against Cancer holds all leads up to Relay for Life.
“Even though our main event is Relay for Life, we do hold smaller events throughout the year,” Mears said. “Our main mission is to spread the work of the American Cancer Society to campus.”
Mears and Masselink said they both joined Colleges Against Cancer because they believed in the group’s mission.
“Everyone has been affected by cancer in some way,” Mears said. “This group brings us all together.
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Masselink said it gives members a chance to spread awareness for something they all deeply believe in.
“It really gives us the chance to connect for one cause,” she said.
Sophomore Emily Chrestiansen joined Colleges Against Cancer because she wanted to be able to give back while at college.
“My aunt had cancer and started a Relay for Life team in my hometown that I help with,” Chrestiansen said. “I also know several others who have been affected by cancer. I joined at USD as a way to be involved and give back to a good cause.”
Chrestiansen said students are just as important to helping spread awareness as adults.
“Almost everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer, so college students should raise awareness about finding a cure for cancer so hopefully someday people won’t have to say that they lost someone to cancer,” Chrestiansen said.
Mears said they are hoping to get the Vermillion community more involved with this year’s Relay for Life, and anyone can form a team and register at www.relay.org/usd.
The cost is $5 per person, and no pre-registration is necessary. The group will also be selling sunglasses.
