Newswise — SALISBURY, MD---Since 2002, Salisbury University’s Relay For Life has raised more than $700,000 for the American Cancer Society. The goal for this year’s 10th event: push that total toward $800,000.
SU’s Relay is consistently among the top collegiate Relays in the nation, and organizers anticipate another highly successful event. Opening ceremonies for the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraiser begin 6 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the SU Intramural Fields. Closing ceremonies are 6 a.m. Saturday, April 30. This year’s theme is “Take a Bite Out of Cancer.” Students Marshall Boyd and Maggie Sullivan chair the event.
Cancer survivors from campus and the greater community are invited to participate in a survivors lap and reception immediately following opening ceremonies. To register for the survivors lap and other activities, visit www.relayforlife.org/su and click “Survivors.”
Some 100 teams representing over 1,000 SU students, faculty, staff, families and community members have signed up to participate in the 2011 Relay. More than $37,000 had already been pledged three weeks before the event. All proceeds benefit cancer research, education, patient services and advocacy programs. Last year’s donations topped $86,000.
SU has twice been named one of only 20 “Leaders of Hope” by Colleges Against Cancer, an American Cancer Society program that unites college students, faculty and staff from more than 300 campuses in the fight against cancer. SU also was named CAC’s “Rookie of the Year” Relay chapter, and the University’s CAC chapter won a 2008 Outstanding Advocacy Award, one of only six honors given nationwide.
The ACS is a community-based organization dedicated to eliminating cancer through efforts such as Relay For Life, which in the past two decades has spread to more than 4,500 U.S. communities and 12 foreign countries.
For more information or to register visit the SU Relay Web site at www.relayforlife.org/su.
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