On Saturday, February 11, the Macalester women's basketball team is hosting Pink Zone during its 3 p.m. game with Gustavus at the Leonard Center.

Donations for breast cancer research are being collected in the Leonard Center throughout the week and during the game. All donations will go to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

The Macalester women's basketball team will be accepting donations for a halftime show at the fans entrance to Alumni Gymnasium. Please show your support by wearing pink to the game!

Pink Zone is an initiative by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to raise awareness about breast cancer and to raise money for breast cancer research. It began in 2007 with about 120 schools and grew to over 1,200 teams in 2008, raising more than $930,000 for breast cancer research. Over 1,800 participants came together to raise over $1,045,000 in 2010. Overall, the WBCA Pink Zone has raised almost $3.3 million, has reached 2.7 million fans and has over 4,700 participants in just four years.

The WBCA's charity of choice is the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund, in partnership with the V Foundation. This initiative is in honor of Kay Yow, the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina State from 1975 - 2009 and coach for the 1988 USA women's Olympic team that won gold. Kay Yow passed away January 24th 2009 after battling breast cancer for the third time since 1987. Her accomplishments on and off the court revealed her dedication to both her players and finding a cure for the cancer she battled. She was a co-founder of the WBCA as well as the Kay Yow / WBCA Cancer Fund.

There will be halftime fundraiser for Pink Zone where pink pieces of paper will be sold for a dollar to be made into a paper airplane. Whoever flies their plane closest to midcourt will win a prize. Donations will be accepted at the atrium entrance until halftime, and all proceeds from paper sales will be donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.