February 17, 2016

BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team will recognize a fellow athlete during their 2016 Vs. Cancer fundraiser in which several members of the team, along with supporters, shave their heads. 

The event will start at noon on Thursday, March 3 in the Commons at Marbeck Center. This is the fifth year the baseball team has braved the razor, and it is the team’s largest community service project.

The team’s goal is to raise $8,000 for the Vs. Cancer foundation. Half of the money will go to childhood cancer research. The other half will go to the Cleveland Clinic, where Adam “Hop” Hopkins is undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma. Hopkins is a junior criminal justice major and Bluffton basketball player from LaGrange, Ohio. 

Stylists from the Curling Iron in Bluffton will once again donate their time, talent and razor blades. 

The Vs. Cancer Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to saving kids’ lives by empowering athletes and communities to fund life-saving childhood cancer efforts. The organization’s reach in 2014-15 included 28 states, 63 hospitals and 40,617 children.

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