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Neelin football team shows their true colours
10/29/2016 at 2:40 PM
The Neelin Spartans football team wore teal socks and put a teal ribbon on their helmets to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. September was ovarian cancer awareness month and teal is the official colour used to raise awareness. They opted to wear the teal socks for the whole season to show their support for one of their own.
Recently, a member of the Spartan family was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and has just completed 6 cycles of chemotherapy. While it's been a challenge for her, she has managed to attend all of the Spartan football games this season. On September 30th, the Spartans unveiled their teal socks and ribbons during their home game at Neelin. As she watched from the sidelines, and realized what the team had done, the gesture of support moved her and she was overwhelmed with emotions. The boys recruited the help of some of the parents to get the socks and ribbons, but otherwise, it was the players that made the choice to show their support. Then, during halftime, the entire team surprised not only her, but their parents as well, as they came to her on the sidelines and presented her with a bouquet of teal and white flowers. The boys had decided, on their own, that they wanted to show their love by giving her the flowers. It was an extremely touching moment that had most of us in tears.
I had to share this story and give the Spartans football team a big round of applause for being such an amazing group of young men and for bringing a ray of sunshine into an otherwise difficult time. Well done boys!