Augsburg Baseball Team 3rd Annual - "Swab a cheek, Save a life!" marrow registry drive for BE THE MATCH signup sheet

Augsburg Baseball Team invites you to their 3rd Annual Swab A Cheek, Save A Life!

We’re joining forces again with BE THE MATCH (the national marrow donor program) to help save more lives!

One of our baseball coaches, Troy Deden, received his life-saving marrow donor match from BE THE MATCH several years ago to help him survive his diagnosis with blood cancer.

As a way of saying “thank you” to BE THE MATCH for saving Troy's life, our baseball team wants to help add more potential life-saving donors to the national marrow registry.

Please come to our 3rd annual marrow registry drives to join the registry!

• Wed., Oct 30th & Thurs., Oct. 31st
• Both days: 10am-2pm at Christensen Center lobby area & then 2pm-6pm at Kennedy Center athletic building (follow the signs)

All it takes to join the registry is 15-20 minutes of your time with a simple registration form and painless cheek swab. It’s THAT simple! And it’s FREE!!

After you join, then what? Well, you wait and hope that someday you get the call from Be The Match that you are a marrow donor match for a patient like Troy. In other words, you may never get that call and be asked to donate.

DID YOU KNOW? - The most common way of donating marrow now to a patient, should you ever get the call that you are a match, is now a procedure very similar to donating blood, plasma and platelets. WoW!

SIGN UP below to say you'll stop by to check us out and possibly join!

Please join us on Oct. 30 and 31 and help us reach our goal of adding 140 new donors to the registry!
(If you joined already, no need to join again. You’re on the registry. Thanks for being on it and we hope you get the call soon!)

If any questions, please contact:

Troy Deden at deden@augsburg.edu
Kristine Reed from Be The Match at kreed2@nmdp.org or text her at 612-616-6534.

Thank you for helping us continue our tradition of helping BE THE MATCH help save the lives of more patients. Together we can make a difference!

~Augsburg Baseball Team