Neat fundraiser I'm doing

[Lisa]

This isn't a band event...but for you all who are true PSU Football fans, you may find this interesting....

From our press release:

April 3, 2009


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DRAFT PICKS AUCTION SHOES FOR A GOOD CAUSE.

After losing both her mother and her aunt to kidney cancer, Lisa Komidar contacted Scott Shirley, a Penn State student-athlete whose family had also been touched by this rare disease.

Komidar thanked Shirley for his support and for sharing his personal experiences. She commented that she found comfort in knowing that someone had traveled this lonely path before her. In short: she no longer felt alone because she had walked a mile in Shirley’s shoes.

From these words, a new fund-raising opportunity was born.

Several Big Ten football players from Penn State and Ohio State who are entering the 2009 NFL draft are donating used athletic shoes to be auctioned off on eBay along with autographed photos. Those pledging to donate shoes include Jordan Norwood, Tyrell Sales, Mark Rubin, Josh Gaines, Gerald Cadogan from PSU along with Curtis Terry and Marcus Freeman of Ohio State.

All proceeds will go directly to Uplifting Athletes—a nonprofit organization led by college football student-athletes with the desire to help raise awareness and funds for rare diseases.

The items will be available for auction on eBay starting the first day of the NFL Draft, April 25, 2009, and will continue throughout the week.

Uplifting Athletes started in 2003 when Scott Shirley was a member of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. Shirley’s father was diagnosed with kidney cancer and his family learned that little could be done because it was a “rare disease.”

Kidney cancer affects fewer than 200,000 Americans, which provides little financial incentive to make and market new treatments.

Since 2003, the PSU Football chapter of Uplifting Athletes has raised over $250,000 to benefit kidney cancer and has grown into an expanding network of university chapters within select major football programs.

Each chapter is run by current football student-athletes and benefits a rare disease that is relevant to their own team. And each is responsible for planning and hosting special events to make their chosen rare disease newsworthy.

For more information on Uplifting Athletes, go to http://www.upliftingathletes.org

[DirtySanchez]

COOL!

I hope this gets as much press coverage as every "bad" thing done by a PSU player gets.