WBCA Pink Zone™

Mission Statement
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.

History
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. In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,100 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research.

WBCA Pink Zone™ 2009
The Pink Zone dates for 2009 will February 13-22. If you do not have a game during that window in which you can participate, feel free to select a game as close as you can to the dates listed.

"Pink Zone" FAQ's

Who's Getting Involved?
Click here to see who participated in the 2008 initiative! If you're not on the list and you participated, please email smckesson@wbca.org so we can add you. We will begin the 2009 list soon!

Do you have a story about how breast cancer has touched your life? If so, email smckesson@wbca.org and let us know! Click here to read stories submitted so far.

Why Get Involved?
There are several coaches currently fighting this vicious disease. Women's basketball coaches share not only a profession, but a community and it is important to pull together and support such causes as this.

Officials Involvement in the WBCA Pink Zone™
The NCAA has also joined the Pink Zone initiative by implementing the "Calling for a Cure" campaign where all NCAA women's basketball officials blew a pink whistle February 8-17, 2008. Additionally, officials were encouraged to make a donation to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. The NCAA raised $25,000 during their 2008 "Calling for a Cure" campaign. For more information, please contact the NCAA.

Donation Information

The WBCA recently announced the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. If you have not already partnered with a local charity, we would love for you to support this Fund with any donations, raffles, sales, etc. that you might be doing. If you have already selected a charity, please continue as planned. We are all in this together to find a cure! For more information on the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund, click here.

Purchase Products Now!

There are no products currently available for the WBCA Pink Zone. Products should be available later this summer. You are welcome to purchase products from local vendors using our logo. (2008 NCAA Waiver Memo)

Promotional Materials and Product Ideas

• WBCA Pink Zone logo (Text Usage & Logo Guidelines)
  
  
  Email Summer McKesson for EPS or Tif Version of Logos
  
  
• WBCA Pink Zone Product Ideas *Please note that if you are wearing pink uniforms, communicate that with your opponent. If both teams are wearing pink uniforms, the away uniform must be a distinctly darker pink than the home uniform.
• Promotional Ideas for Your Campus
• WBCA Pink Zone Fact Sheet
• WBCA Pink Zone Flyer - Coming Soon! - Just download the Word doc., insert your own information, print and you're done!
• WBCA Pink Zone Flyer 2 - Coming Soon!
• Breast Cancer Facts and Statistics
• WBCA Pink Zone Radio Announcement Verbiage
• WBCA Pink Zone Downloadable Radio Spot - Coming Soon!

If you would like to be added to the WBCA's distribution list for future emails on this initiative, or if you have any ideas for products or promotions that you would like added to the list, email smckesson@wbca.org . This will help everyone stay informed and make this initiative very impactful on every campus in the nation!