GREENSBORO, N.C. - The defending national champion Texas A&M women's basketball head coach Gary Blair and associate head coach Vic Schaefer are playing for a cause at the 4Kay Golf Classic at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C.
The 4Kay Golf Classic is an annual event hosted by the Kay Yow Cancer Fund which allows coaches, fans and administrators to come together in camaraderie and engage in some friendly competition while raising money for scientific research.
Since the inaugural year the 4Kay Golf Classic has evolved into a unique event in the sense that coaches leave behind their playbooks to focus on making a difference in the fight against women's cancers as a collective whole.
It was Coach Yow's vision to gather a nation of coaches in one setting for a cause much greater than any on-court rivalry.
Blair, along with some of the nation's top women's basketball coaches - Muffet McGraw (Notre Dame), Kellie Harper (NC State), Stephanie Glance (Illinois State) and Katie Meier (Miami), also spoke at the inaugural Kay Yow Cancer Fund Coaches Clinic at the Grandover Resort.
Last season Texas A&M raised over $61,000 in its BTHO Breast Cancer game, the most money of all participating teams in all divisions for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. A&M nearly doubled its contribution from each of the previous three seasons.
Founded in December 2007, the Kay Yow Cancer Fund is a 501 c(3) charitable organization committed to being a part of finding an answer in the fight against women's cancers through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved and unifying people for a common cause.
The late Kay Yow, the Fund's namesake and former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, was a past president and founding member of the WBCA, and a galvanizing voice for the Association. Yow was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, and passed away on January 24, 2009, after facing her third bout with the disease.