GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- In honor of Tusculum College's WBCA Pink Zone™ Game and in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness, former TC employee Nancy Kilday will serve as honorary coach at Saturday's Tusculum/Brevard women's basketball game announced TC head coach Adell Harris.

Kilday, who is a breast cancer survivor, retired from Tusculum in June 2009 after 31 years of service in the College's admission office and academic resource center.

Nancy is married to Tusculum Sports Hall of Famer, Jack Kilday '57, who was a standout on the TC men's basketball team from 1955-57. Nancy and Jack's daughter, Kim Kilday Dixon '85, lettered on the Tusculum basketball and volleyball teams from 1981-85.

The WBCA Pink Zone™ initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.

Tusculum women's basketball players, coaches and support staff will be wearing pink on game day to promote awareness of this dreaded disease. Half of all gate proceeds for the Feb. 20 women's game will be donated to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. Additional donations will also be collected throughout the afternoon's festivities.

The WBCA began the WBCA Pink Zone™, formerly known as "Think Pink", in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in Women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head Women's basketball coach, served as the catalyst for the initiative after her third reoccurrence of breast cancer in 2006. In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,200 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research.

The 2009 campaign raised over $1.3 million, reached over 912,000 fans, unified more than 1,600 participating teams and organizations, and saw 56+ schools break attendance records at their event. The WBCA's charity of choice is the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, in partnership with The V Foundation. The WBCA strongly encourages all donations from Pink Zone games to be given to this Fund.

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