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Rusty Wright has been head coach of the UTC football team since 2019. Photo by Billy Weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n

In April, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team partnered with Be The Match and the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation to host an on-campus donor recruitment drive.<\/p>\n

The goal: Spread the word to college students about \u201cGet in the Game. Save a Life.\u201d\u2014a nationwide Be The Match initiative to educate collegiate athletes and their peers about how a blood stem cell or bone marrow transplant from a healthy donor can cure people diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers and blood disorders. Once aware of the importance of blood stem cell and marrow donations, students can then register as a donor for the Be The Match Registry by completing a simple cheek swab test.<\/p>\n

The result: Thanks to the efforts of Mocs football student-athletes, 200 members of the campus community were added to the national registry.<\/p>\n

Be The Match wants to inform the entire campus about the work of Head Coach Rusty Wright and the football team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want any group we work with to have a great experience; obviously, they\u2019re helping promote our mission, but we want them to be promoted on campus as well,\u201d said Be The Match account manager Amanda Cooley, whose territory includes Tennessee and North Carolina. \u201cWe want the chancellor and those on campus to know the good work being done.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something to be very proud of. We want to commend the football players and thank the campus as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Cooley said the football players did \u201cfantastic\u201d work educating and recruiting UTC students during her campus visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe day before the event, we met with the team, educated them and helped them understand what Be The Match is and what they would be helping us do,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we seek to add people to the registry, we want them to know what they\u2019re signing up for. Once the team was out there helping us, other students see the football team out and they were like, \u2018Hey, what\u2019s going on?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team did a fantastic job. They were even out there running around out with cowbells and capes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooley said she and other Be The Match personnel work to add college students to the registry because doctors request donors usually be as young as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese younger 18- to 24-year-olds are usually in better health,\u201d she said. \u201cAs you age, your stem cells are just not as robust.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mocs football team has been involved with Be The Match since 2011, adding 1,189 people to the registry over the years. Nine have gone on to become matches, providing life-saving stem cell or bone marrow donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very thankful for the opportunity to bring awareness to the \u2018Get in the Game, Save a Life\u2019 program,\u201d said Wright, who received a bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC in 1996. \u201cAlso, we\u2019re very appreciative of (UTC Director of Football Operations) Emily Baustert taking a leadership role in our involvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the easiest thing in the world to do. Registering as a potential donor for the Be The Match Registry takes about five minutes, but the impact could literally last a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Be The Match, 12,000 patients annually are diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers or other diseases like sickle cell, for which a blood stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor may be their best or only hope for a cure. A blood stem cell transplant can cure or treat more than 75 diseases, including leukemia and lymphoma, aplastic anemia and immune deficiency disorders.<\/p>\n

Cooley said 70% of patients do not have a fully matched donor in their family and depend on Be The Match to find an unrelated donor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are not common blood-type matches,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a very unique match. We have some proteins in our cells that run our immune system called HLA (human leukocyte antigen) markers. Those have to match between a searching patient and a potential donor.\u201d<\/p>\n

At events like the one at UTC, people \u201cswab their cheek and leave that with us,\u201d she said. The cheek swab is how they are able to test for HLA used to match patients and donors for bone marrow or cord blood transplants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we FedEx those off immediately to our testing center. They get tested and folks get added to the registry. Once someone\u2019s added to the registry, it\u2019s really waiting to see, do they ever get matched with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooley has first-hand knowledge of what it\u2019s like to be the match. Before she became an employee, she joined the Be The Match Registry after her aunt, Women\u2019s Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Sylvia Hatchell, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a patient is diagnosed, they are looking at treatment options; they don\u2019t know what all they may need to do for the patient,\u201d Cooley explained. \u201cFor my aunt, they weren\u2019t sure if she would need a bone marrow transplant or a stem cell transplant, so we all joined the registry just in case she needed us as a potential match. She didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a call a couple of years later; I was a match for a young man. All they could tell me was he was overseas, he had a blood disorder and that he was about 15 years old\u2014so I went in and donated. It was a great opportunity and I would do it again if it was asked of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

While much of the publicity around the \u201cGet in the Game. Save a Life.\u201d program comes from tie-ins with more than 325 college athletic programs across the country, Cooley said Be The Match works with all student organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to help students develop and give them opportunities to grow and learn,\u201d she said. \u201cWe work with organizations or students wanting to go into biological sciences or med school and this will help them with their resume or development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooley encouraged UTC student groups to email her (acooley2@NMDP.ORG<\/a><\/strong>) to learn about partnering with Be The Match. Individuals interested in signing up for the registry should text UTC to 61474.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanks to the efforts of Mocs football student-athletes in April, 200 members of the UTC campus community have been added to the national Be The Match Registry for blood stem cell and marrow donations. The Mocs football team has been involved with Be The Match since 2011, adding 1,189 people to the registry over the years.<\/p>\n

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