Your Help is Needed:

College athletics are built around competition.  But even rivals can team together when the cause is right.  

Arthritis is this country’s leading cause of disability.  It’s not just an old person’s disease, either.  I’ve seen its painful effects in athletes and coaching colleagues. That’s why we’ve joined with Frank Martin and Deb Patterson of KSU in a friendly competition to help the Arthritis Foundation.  We have formed virtual teams of walkers for the May 7th Arthritis Walk here in Lawrence, just as Coaches Martin and Patterson are doing for the Manhattan Arthritis Walk.  Frank and Deb say they will have more walkers and raise more money than our teams just as they did in 2010   But we must prove them wrong and we are asking you to help so we can win back this recognition to Lawrence for 2011!  Show your Jayhawk Pride and help fight arthritis.  Follow this link   http://awlawrence.kintera.org and click on “Rivals for a Cure” to donate online or to register to walk.   Or go to www.arthritis.org keyword “Rivals” to learn more.

Thanks in advance for your support.   Your tax-deductible contribution will help the Arthritis Foundation fund research and programs for the one in five Kansans who have arthritis pain.  And we’ll show Coaches Martin and Patterson and Company that Lawrence is the home of winners when it comes to helping people with arthritis.

Bill Self, Men’s Basketball Coach          Bonnie Henrickson, Women’s Basketball Coach
           
Kansas University