Women's Basketball | 4/9/2009 6:26:19 PM

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The Methodist University women's basketball raised more than $7,000 for breast cancer awareness through their Pink Zone event Feb. 14. The Monarchs are splitting the proceeds between the Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation Friends of the Cancer Center along with the WBCA Kay Yow Foundation.

Thursday afternoon, a number of the women's basketball players traveled across town to present a check for $3,621 to Deanna Benson-Reed from the Friends of the Cancer Center. The center is a community of volunteers who nurture, support and guide cancer patients and their families through a profoundly emotional time to improve the quality of our patients' lives. Methodist head coach DeeDee Jarman and her team opted to donate half of their proceeds to the Cancer Center to provide mammograms for the uninsured and underserved.

Methodist University Pink Zone

Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation Friends of the Cancer Center