Skyline’s Pink Out to raise cancer awarness, research funds

January 22nd, 2009, 3:27 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Michelle Reese

Members of the girls’ Skyline High School basketball teams in Mesa are stepping up their game Friday night – for a cause.
Jan. 23 is being dubbed a “Pink Out” to help raise funds and awareness for cancer research, said Rachel Young, a senior at the school and the event’s main organizer.
Young’s dad died seven years ago from lung cancer. When the original organizers of the event backed out, Young was tapped.
“They knew my story and how I have been involved in the cancer community and asked me if my mom and I would be a part of this event,” Young said. “We said ‘we’d be honored to have an impact on this.’”
The Skyline teams will be in pink and the members of the Scottsdale Horizon teams will be in white.
The event includes a silent auction with items such as a basketball signed by Amare Stoudemire, a jersey signed by Kelly Miller of the Phoenix Mercury, and an Olympic watch, Young said.
“Our coolest item is a basketball signed by the 2008 women’s gold-medalist basketball team,” she said.
Tickets to the event are $4, but it is free for cancer survivors, who are being invited and will be recognized at halftime of the varsity game.
The junior varsity game begins at 5:30 p.m. with the varsity game to follow at 7 p.m.
“I really hope it can become an annual event and I really hope we can have a good light on Skyline,” she said. “I hope the community can help raise money for all the cancer awareness. I’m hoping Skyline will have good feedback from the community and I’m hoping people can find a passion. If people come to Pink Out … and one person left thinking, ‘I want to get involved with that,’ I would be ecstatic.”
What: Skyline High School girls basketball games’ Pink Out
When: 5:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23 junior varsity; 7 p.m. varsity
Where: Skyline High School, 845 S. Crismon Road, Mesa
Cost: $4 for tickets, free for cancer survivors

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