UMFK women's soccer fights cancer

FORT KENT - This weekend the UMFK Lady Bengals chose to wear pink accessories in their home game against SUNY Canton for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

GREEN AND GOLD AND...PINK? - The University of Maine at Fort Kent women's soccer team wore pink laces, tape and head bands in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this past weekend to help recognize and support the fight against breast cancer worldwide. Shown here are (front) Marie-Michele Lachance, Callie Rigsby, Victoria Dubois-Iredale, Jamie Nadeau, Whitney Sinclair, Elizabeth Morneault, Camille Dugas, Marie-Pier Daze, (back) Andrea Baril (on crutches), Assistant Coach Jim Rowe, Rylee Leighton, Jamie Daigle, Sydney Proctor, Meagan Leibowitz, Anglea Norsworthy, Donike Ferriera, Jamie Pelletier, Theresa Biggs, Jenn Colpitts, Ariane Pelletier and Head Coach Lucas Levesque - Contributed image

Sophomore Elizabeth Morneault of Winterville originally had the idea. She said, "Well I was watching football last weekend and all the pro teams were supporting breast cancer, and I thought it was so cool how all these people could come together in support of breast cancer, and right away I thought about how nice it would be for our team to do the same.

"I thought it would be a nice gesture to remember those who we all know that are or have suffered from breast cancer," said Morneault.

Some members of the team wore pink medical tape bracelets which displayed the name of a person they knew that has or had breast cancer. Other pink items that teammates wore were pink shoelaces and headbands sporting the breast cancer ribbon.