{"id":106859,"date":"2026-01-07T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=106859"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:57:50","slug":"badgers-unite-to-support-breast-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/01\/badgers-unite-to-support-breast-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers unite to support breast cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock women\u2019s basketball team is facing off against breast cancer by raising funds for the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).<\/p>\n<p>The 19th annual Shoot for the Cure game, which takes place at 6 p.m. in the Bob Davis Gymnasium on Saturday, Jan. 10, is part of a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of and money for breast cancer research. The Brock Badgers will also wear pink warmups as they take on the visiting Laurentian Voyageurs.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Brock women\u2019s teams will be raising money this month in support of the national U SPORTS Shoot for the Cure campaign, which runs from Wednesday, Jan. 21 to Sunday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s hockey team will host its Pink in the Rink game on Friday, Jan. 16 against the Western Mustangs at 6 p.m. at Canada Games Park, and women\u2019s volleyball is hosting a Dig for the Cure game at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17 against the RMC Paladins.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can support Brock\u2019s teams and the Shoot for the Cure campaign, which aims to raise $100,000, by heading to the Brock Badgers\u2019 fundraising page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/fundraisemyway.cancer.ca\/teams\/brockbadgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Cancer Society website<\/a>. To support a specific team\u2019s fundraising goals, fans can select the roster page on the Brock Badgers fundraising page and click \u201cDonate Now\u201d beside the team of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>U SPORTS has is also launching <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.usports.ca\/collections\/shoot-for-the-cure-collection-lancez-pour-la-guerison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shoot for the Cure Collection<\/a> merchandise that will be available during the national fundraising campaign, with proceeds from every item sold directly supporting Shoot for the Cure.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s donations exceeded $122,000, bringing Shoot for the Cure\u2019s total raised since 2007 to more than $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock women\u2019s basketball team is facing off against breast cancer by raising funds for the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":106861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1,58],"tags":[256,14998,7466,7584,4620,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106860,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106859\/revisions\/106860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}