Duchenne affects 1 in 3,500 boys every year and there are roughly 15,000 boys throughout the U.S. that have the disease. In the majority of cases, those diagnosed with Duchenne don’t live beyond their early 20’s.
This will be the third year that the KLAA will be participating in the weekend event, Joining high school teams throughout the country as well as all of college football on the following day (September 24th). There are over 10,000 coaches and staff at the college level that take part in the “Coach to Cure” weekend each year.
The idea for the conference to join the cause was brought up by the Walled Lake Central coaching staff after assistant coach Jeff Penrod and his family learned that his son, Joseph had been diagnose with Duchenne three years ago.
The KLAA immediately hit the ground running with the idea, setting up various ways to donate to the “Coach to Cure” foundation during the game with donation boxes filtering throughout the crowd. Teams in the conference have made donations from money made from concessions and 50-50 raffles from games that week and you can expect more of the same during Friday’s games.
If you would like to make a donation to coach to cure, you can make a five dollar donation by texting the word “CURE” to 90999. You can also make a donation and learn more about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by going to http://coachtocuremd.org/
If you would like to learn more about Joseph Penrod and make a donation you can visit http://www.teamjoseph.info/
*Look for my full story on Coach to Cure in Thursday’s edition of the Oakland Press*
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