Think Pink 2020 Raises +$5000

UNB Reds women's basketball coach Jeff Speedy, left, stands with members of his team and the Reds women's volleyball team during an event at the recent 'Think Pink Weekend.' (Photo: Andy Campbell/UNB Athletics)

January 17, 2020

(FREDERICTON, NB) All of the donations are in, all the raffle ticket sales tabulated, and all the money has been counted.

The UNB Reds ‘Think Pink Weekend’ raised $5105.05 for the national ‘Shoot for the Cure’ effort, to be donated to the Canadian Cancer Society.

The money was raised through donations, raffles, 50/50 draws, and other activities at eight Reds basketball, volleyball and hockey games on the weekend of January, 10-12, 2020.

“We had another very successful ‘Think Pink Weekend’, said Reds women’s basketball head coach Jeff Speedy.

Speedy also serves as the ‘Shoot for the Cure’ project manager for the U SPORTS Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

“It always amazes me how engaged our student-athletes are, and how supportive our fans and community are,” said Speedy. “This is one of the best things we do as Reds. It was a lot of fun and, hopefully, it helps make a difference.”

The 2019-2020 U SPORTS women’s basketball season marks the 13^th season of ‘Shoot for the Cure,’ which sees 48 U SPORTS schools participating.

Since the program’s inception, in 2007, more than $1.3 million dollars has been raised nationally for the Canadian Cancer Society and other local related charities.

“Each year, funds raised through ‘Shoot for the Cure’ support gold standard breast cancer research in areas of risk reduction, screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment,” said Jane Parsons, Regional Executive Director-Atlantic, for the Canadian Cancer Society, in a U SPORTS release, earlier this season. “The continued advancements in these areas would not be possible if it wasn’t for initiatives like ‘Shoot for the Cure.’