For Immediate Release
October 14, 2011
Courtesy of the Saint Rose Athletics Communications Staff
Albany, N.Y. – The College of Saint Rose women's basketball team recently continued its annual tradition of volunteering at the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure that is held in Albany each autumn.
The tradition began eleven years ago, when the Golden Knights surprised head coach Karen Haag, a cancer survivor herself, by volunteering to cut chips off of the runners' shoes at the finish line.
The team has been volunteering ever since in honor coach Haag and her battle to overcome breast cancer. This year the Golden Knights helped set up the cones to create a path for the runners, and also worked as Course Marshalls throughout the race.
"Coach Haag has truly been an inspiration in the lives of all of her players, both past and present. She has taught us all the strength and persistence it takes to overcome any adversity in our lives, and we choose to volunteer yearly as a token of our appreciation of her and all that she does," said current assistant coach and former player Lauren Revesz.
The event represents just one of numerous community service projects that Saint Rose student-athletes complete every year. It furthermore puts forth another example of how Saint Rose student-athletes embody a major prong of the College's mission statement to engage with the school's urban environment and thus help foster a sense of motivated and caring citizenship.
