Nov. 19, 2009
Over the last two weeks, the University of North Carolina football program and the UNC Dance Marathon joined together to raise $12,494 in honor of Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich, the 2008 ACC Defensive Player of the Year who was diagnosed last spring with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that typically affects young adults and children.
Coach Davis and the Tar Heel football team will present Herzlich with a check to the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in his honor prior to the Boston College football game in Chestnutt Hill, Mass., on November 21st, 2009.
Carolina players, coaches and fans raised the money in a variety of methods. UNC players and coaches made personal donations to the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Center for Cancer Center for Sarcoma Research in Herzlich's name; Fans bid on several football auction items on TarHeelBlue.com; Fans purchased wristbands and made donations at the Miami home football game; Fans made donations at Butch Davis' weekly radio show; and fans made donations online ($500).
"Our team and coaching staff was thrilled to participate in this worthwhile cause to honor Mark Herzlich, an outstanding football player who has stood strong in the face of great adversity, and raise money for such important cancer research right here at our own University," said Davis.
