Central Islip, N.Y. - Beginning with last night’s volleyball contest at NYIT, the East Coast Conference and its member institutions will host over 20 games throughout October as part of its Pink and Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week initiatives.
 
ECC Pink Week festivities will be hosted by each men’s and women’s soccer team in the conference. At the selected contests, $2 donations will be taken in lieu of admission being charged. ECC Pink Week t-shirts will also be sold for $10. All proceeds from each Pink Week game will be donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.

ECC volleyball teams will host the Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week games. Lavender is the color of the general cancer awareness ribbon. As with ECC Pink Week, $2 donations will be collected at the door and t-shirts will be sold for $10 with all proceeds going to the Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Institute.

In addition to gate donations and t-shirt sales, ECC member schools will also sell prize packs, ribbons, and host 50/50 raffles to collect for the respective charitable organizations associated with the Pink and Lavender weeks.

To see when your favorite ECC school is hosting one of these games, please check out the full schedule listed below.

ECC Pink Week Games
October 19
Molloy at Mercy
Queens at NYIT
LIU Post at STAC

October 20
Bridgeport at Daemen
Dowling at Roberts Wesleyan

October 23
NYIT at Molloy (men’s soccer)

October 26
NYIT at Bridgeport
Mercy at LIU Post
Dowling at Queens

October 30
NYIT at Dowling (men’s soccer)
Felician at Dowling (women’s soccer)
LIU Post at District of Columbia

November 2
Dowling at Molloy (women’s soccer)

ECC Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week Games
October 15
Bridgeport at LIU Post

October 17
NYIT at Dowling

October 18
Mercy at Bridgeport

October 22
Queens at Mercy

October 24
Mercy at Molloy
Bridgeport at Queens

October 26
NYIT at Daemen
LIU Post at Roberts Wesleyan