Today, however, basketball gives me something way more
valuable. Basketball allows me to
take the game I love use and it to help unite my community.
Tonight we host Shoot For The Cure as part of Think Pink
Weekend in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. We will be
selling 50/50 tickets and raffling a bunch of awesome prizes. Claire, Colleen,
and Kylee Speedy will be cutting their hair and donating it to Locks For Love.
We will be sporting our new pink uniforms and playing with a pink basketball.
Battles are fought on different scales around the world
every day. Today, while I’m listening to Cory explain an offensive adjustment
other people are listening to their doctor give them terrible news. While I’m
sitting in video and reading my scouting report they are designing a battle
plan that is much harder.
What we do in the Currie Centre is so small compared to what
people face in their lives, but it’s all I know how to do.
We are united by all kinds of things. Some are silly, but
some are profound. The battle our community faces isn’t going to be stopped by
one player’s stand-out performance. Instead, we all have to come together,
circle the wagons, and have each other’s backs, because that’s the only way we
are going to win this one.
One my favourite things about this game is the way that when
you’re playing nothing else matters.
Somehow, a leather ball knows how to turn off the world but I’m taking
the pain and loss that cancer has caused the ones I love with me tonight and, I
hope, turning into something else; into pride for my team, my school, and the
Fredericton community, and into the belief that no battle is insurmountable.
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Tip tonight is at 6:00. Men are at 8:00. Even though we always want you there, tonight it is especially true. Please come out and support us as we take on Dalhousie.
If you can't make it think about checking out women's volleyball's Dig For The Cure and men's hockey's Pink The Rink this weekend.
Yours,
Allie
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