This fall, the Bentley University women's volleyball team held a "Dig Lavender" campaign to raise funds for rare cancer research. Lavender is the color of the ribbon representing all cancers that don't have their own.  Head Coach Sandy Hoffman was diagnosed with Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma, one of the world's rarest cancers, and has been treated at Dana Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Institute for the past year. On December 6, the team went to the institute in Boston to present checks for over $20,000!

Their Dig Lavender campaign was a huge success due to donations from the Bentley team's family and supporters, and other collegiate volleyball programs including Franklin Pierce, New Haven, Adelphi, Pace, Saint Michael's, Wilmington and Suffolk University.

Due to their efforts the team had "gene" inscribed in the Genome display at Dana Farber. The Gene Display is a larger-than-life representation of a microarray, the innovative technology that Dana-Farber researchers utilize to survey the behavior of many genes in a tumor cell using colors that reflect activity.

The Bentley team's "gene" inscription is:

Coach Sandy Hoffman
       "Fight Like
     a Volleyballer"
  Bentley University
2013 Volleyball Team

See the Gene Display website