Biddy Football Team Honors Breast Cancer Survivors

The West Rangers Biddy League Football team did something a little different for this years homecoming game.

At the end of the game seven sixth grade football players escorted seven breast cancer survivors across the field while the women’s heroic stories were read aloud for all of those in attendance. The homecoming king was then announced and crowned. We asked co-chair of the team Melissa Dickinson why she wanted to start a new, honorable tradition…

“No other biddy league team has done anything like this so we wanted to be the first and we want to make it a tradition and we just want to raise awareness and make sure kids know that it’s a disease and it kills and it’s important” Dickinson said.

After the king was announced and crowned the football players then turned and crowned all of the women as homecoming queen for being breast cancer survivors. Even all of those in attendance including the football team did their part to wear pink.

“Every October my son looks forward to wearing pink and he really didn’t understand why so it was up to me to make sure he understood so I didn’t want to just stop at my son I wanted to make sure his whole team knew, the entire team knew” she later told us.

The ceremony ended with a moment of silence and a releasing of pink baloons for those who have lost their battle to breast cancer.