To keep up with the girls, the boys’ varsity teams are now wearing pink all month to show their support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Most students are indirectly affected by breast cancer in some way.  

“I don’t know of any specific people, but we are just supporting the overall cause,” Vincent Neubert, varsity football player, said. 

The goal of this month is to educate more people of the danger of this type of cancer and teach people how to catch symptoms early.

The football players are allowed to wear pink on their uniforms and plan to buy pink ribbon stickers to put on their helmets. The team can wear pink wristbands, leggings, socks, or any other accent accessory on their uniforms.

“We tell the guys that they can wear any sort of pink attire on their outfit,” Mr. Michael Escalante, football coach, said. “A lot of them are wearing pink athletic tape, on their wrist or on their ankles, or they wear pink wristbands or arm bands or things like that.”

The boys’ varsity soccer team wears pink shoelaces and boys’ cross-country team wears pink camouflage shirts.

Although the t-shirt fundraiser is new this year, football has been dressing pink for many years. Escalante has been coaching for Glen Rock since 2013, and this tradition has existed before he started. 

“Hopefully it will make people more aware and doing the pink united color front will help people become aware of how serious this issue is,” Mrs. Stacie Gallo, cross country coach, said.