Top 10 Stories of 2022-23 - #5 Moravian Women’s Basketball Leading NCAA Division III Play4Kay for 15th Straight Year
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University is continuing its look back at its 2022-23 athletic campaign. The sixth entry in our second countdown of the summer – the Top 10 Stories of the Year selected by the athletic administration – is our No. 5 highlight – Moravian’s women’s basketball team leading NCAA Division III in Play4Kay fundraising in 2023 with over $18,000 raised for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University is continuing its look back at its 2022-23 athletic campaign. The sixth entry in our second countdown of the summer – the Top 10 Stories of the Year selected by the athletic administration – is our No. 5 highlight – Moravian's women's basketball team leading NCAA Division III in Play4Kay fundraising in 2023 with over $18,000 raised for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
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 $18,012, the top amount from an NCAA Division III school, to give the program a total of $216,088 donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund over the last 15 years. The Greyhounds raised $18,050 in 2022, $6,683 in 2021, $19,053 in 2020, $19,480 in 2019, $19,657 during 2018 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.
Moravian is the only 15-time winner in the 15-year history of the contest. The Greyhounds raise money in a variety of ways during the week including collecting donations at the game versus Susquehanna, a Pink Zone Clinic in Springfield, New Jersey, and Pink Office Week as Moravian faculty and staff members are encouraged to wear jeans and pink all week and asked to make a $5 donation for each day they wear pink. The women's basketball team also sold t-shirts in the HUB all week.
For more information about the Kay Yow Cancer Fund and its annual Play 4Kay® initiative, visit www.kayyow.com and follow #Play4Kay and #KayYow.
The number four story in the countdown will be released on Monday, July 24.
