As the Chargers travel to Woodstock for a date with Marian Central Catholic, Aurora Central Catholic Head Coach Brian Casey and the rest of the Aurora Central Catholic Football Coaching Staff will be joining the American Football Coaches Association this weekend in the “Coach to Cure MD”.
Coach to Cure MD is a game-day charity partnership between the AFCA and ParentProject Muscular Dystrophy.
On the same week, all over the country, high school and college coaches come together to focus the attention of the nation’s sports fans on the fight to cure Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the most prolific genetic killer diagnosed in childhood.
This weekend, members of the American Football Coaches Association will participate in the Coach to Cure MD by wearing patches on sideline of their games on September 23-24. This year, over 9,000 coaches are expected to participate.
“This year the AFCA has extended the Coach to Cure campaign to high school coaches, and I am excited to get ACC and our coaches on board,” Casey said. “It is a heartbreaking disease, and any type of awareness we can create towards the fight against Duchenne is a plus for everyone involved.”
The boys fighting Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy typically lose their ability to walk before they are teenagers. They stop running. They stop walking. The stop moving. They stop breathing. All of them. The life expectancy for this cruel disorder is just to the 20s, and it’s 100% fatal.
Since the AFCA launched this partnership in 2008, college football’s backers have generously given roughly $1 million in cash and other donations. Those gifts have raised awareness of this great cause and helped fund critical research grants from ParentProject MD to university faculty at schools ranging from Florida to Missouri to UCLA, Ohio State and Penn, among others.
Aurora Central Catholic Football fans can donate to life-saving research by either going online at www.CoachToCureMD.com or by texting the word CURE to 90999 on their mobile phones to give $5 on the next mobile phone bill.
