2008 Woodie Awards
Football team hosts screening day
Staff Reports
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Sports
UNH head football coach Sean McDonnell and his Wildcat football players will take time out from spring practice to host a bone marrow testing drive on Friday, May 9, 2008, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. The event will be held in Lundholm Gymnasium at the Field House on the Durham campus. The test is a simple cheek swab and no blood or needles are involved. Event registration and testing take 20 minutes or less for each person.
This event kicks off UNH football's first year of involvement with the national bone marrow campaign. The team will join other Division I programs in the northeast: Villanova University, Temple University, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Northeastern University, the University of Maine, and Wagner University in the quest to identify potential donors for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry.
There are 20 million people worldwide who are registered as potential marrow donors. Still, there are only about 250 matches found each year, making it a 1-in-80,000 chance that a registered donor will be a match. Patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases that can be treated by a bone marrow or cord blood transplant are desperately searching for donors everyday.
This event kicks off UNH football's first year of involvement with the national bone marrow campaign. The team will join other Division I programs in the northeast: Villanova University, Temple University, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Northeastern University, the University of Maine, and Wagner University in the quest to identify potential donors for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry.
There are 20 million people worldwide who are registered as potential marrow donors. Still, there are only about 250 matches found each year, making it a 1-in-80,000 chance that a registered donor will be a match. Patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases that can be treated by a bone marrow or cord blood transplant are desperately searching for donors everyday.
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