Bluffton Volleyball Hosts Dig for the Cure Match against Oberlin
September 16, 2008
BLUFFTON, OH - The Bluffton University volleyball team hosted Oberlin in the Beavers' first Dig for the Cure match on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. With a raucous Founders Hall crowd supporting the cause in a sea of pink, Bluffton swept Oberlin in three straight sets (25-16, 25-16, 25-14) to improve to 7-3 on the season.
During an intermission, Bluffton fans served to win Dig for the Cure shirts as part of the festivities. Bluffton and Oberlin raised over $2,400 for cancer research during the event.
Dig for the Cure began in the fall of 2003 when Lisa Martson, the head coach at the University of Charlotte, (whose mother is a breast cancer survivor) sought to combine her volleyball program's community service project with a company that helped her mother and others like her to survive - the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Coach Martson established the Dig for the Cure with just her program. In the following years schools in her conference also participated in the program. Consequently, word got out and the effort has grown from her sole Division I program in 2003 to more than 90 programs across the country in all divisions and high schools.