Top 10 Stories Of 2019-20 - #3 Women’s Basketball Leads NCAA Division III in Play4Kay Fundraising For 12th Consecutive Year
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College is continuing its look back at its 2019-20 athletic campaign. The next entry in our second countdown of the summer – the Top 10 Stories of the Year selected by the athletic administration – is our No. 3 highlight – the women’s basketball team leading NCAA Division III in fundraising for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund through Play4Kay for the 12th consecutive year.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College is continuing its look back at its 2019-20 athletic campaign. The next entry in our second countdown of the summer – the Top 10 Stories of the Year selected by the athletic administration – is our No. 3 highlight – the women's basketball team leading NCAA Division III in fundraising for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund through Play4Kay for the 12th consecutive year.
The Greyhounds raised $19,053 in 2020, the 12th consecutive year that the Greyhounds have led NCAA Division III schools in Play4Kay. Play4Kay is the grassroots fundraising initiative of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Its primary fundraising support comes from women's basketball teams across the country that dedicate an event to raise funds and awareness for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, an organization committed to funding women's cancer research and supporting projects that assist the underserved community.
This winter, Moravian raised $19,053, the top amount from an NCAA Division III school, to give the program a total of $173,343 donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund over the last 12 years. The Greyhounds raised $19,480 a year ago, $19,657 during 2019 and $21,662 in 2017, and the most raised by the Hounds in a single year. Moravian was also the top NCAA Division III team in 2016 with $18,520, in 2015 with $17,038, in 2014 with $12,573, in 2013 with $16,210, in 2012 with $12,025, in 2011 with $5,825, in 2010 at $6,100 and a first-year total of $5,200 in 2009.
Read the original story at https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/wbkb/2019-20/releases/20200509ek47r9.
The number two story in the countdown will be released on Thursday, July 23.
