GLASSBORO, NJ - The Rowan football team registered 296 potential bone marrow donors with their event on April 20, in the 14th year that the Profs have partnered with the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation and Be The Match. Rowan is one of nearly 200 college and university football teams helping to save lives through the program, Get In The Game.

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Adding in this year's participants, the Profs' football team has registered 3,530 potential donors. Since joining the program  individuals with 16 people becoming donors. The Talley Foundation originated in 2008 and since then in conjunction with GITG, has been responsible for registering 123,000 potential donors nationwide which have resulted in 840 transplants. 

Be The Match, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, offers a potential cure through blood stem cell and marrow transplants for the thousands of people diagnosed every year with blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma and life-threatening blood diseases like sickle cell and aplastic anemia.

"Our players and coaches did a great job this past Wednesday.  We registered close to 300 people for the National Bone Marrow Registry.  After a two-year hiatus our Get In The Game, Save A Life drive through Be The Match and the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation was once again a huge success!  Gabrielle Morales and Ronald Francois from Be The Match guided us throughout the day.  We want to thank the students, faculty, staff and Rowan community for their support as well as Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS and station manager Derek Jones and his crew for covering the event live," said head coach Jay Accorsi.   
 
For more information: Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation
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