Team Up Montana Events

Each year Team Up Montana focuses its efforts on a specific cancer. In 2009 and 2010 we've taken on breast cancer. In the relationships established between the Team Up Montana partners we are able to heighten breast cancer awareness and prevention in our community through highly publicized events. Read below to learn about previous Team Up Montana events, with everyone's help we hope to raise cancer awareness, promote prevention and offer financial assistance to western Montanans battling this disease.

We invite you to join us for our next event because together we can make a difference for people in our community.

2/13/2010: Get in the Game
Team Up Montana joined forces with the Lady Griz to promote early detection and breast cancer awareness on February 13, 2010. The event took place at the Adams Center where the Lady Griz defeated Eastern Washington. A pre-game ceremony honored breast cancer survivors and those in the battle against breast cancer. Former Lady Griz players escorted survivors onto the court for the opening game ceremony. Fans dressed in Team Up Montana / Pink Zone shirts cheered survivors and the Lady Griz on in their victory.

St. Patrick Hospital provided free entrance, pink shirts and special seating to women who received mammograms between the dates of February 1 - 12, 2010 at St. Pat's. Donations were accepted at tables and the event raised over $3K through individual donations for breast cancer treatment and prevention programs.


10/17/2009: Breast Cancer Awareness Day
This date marked the first series of Team Up Montana events. Fans and players displayed pink attire to show support for breast cancer victims and survivors at the October 17, 2009, Griz football game. An opening game-day ceremony celebrated the perseverance of four women's lives in their tumultuous battle against breast cancer. Mary Kramer, Terry Haynal, Mary Burton and Margot Bucholtz stepped onto the field and were embraced by over 26,000 standing fans honoring each woman. Strangers to each other, the fans and women in that single moment shared one similar thought: hope. College students got involved as they battled it out in halftime powder-puff games broadcasted live from Washington Grizzly Stadium on Griz Vision and KPAX.

Through raffle ticket sales and individual donations our first Team Up Montana event raised over $40K toward the treatment of breast cancer by providing financial assistance, preventitive and educational programs and through low cost screening mammograms. Proceeds from this event went to providing over $10K in the form of screenning mammogram vouchers. Vouchers cover the entire cost of a screening mammogram, a value of $140. These vouchers make free screening mammograms available to women in western Montana. Now, any woman, whether uninsured or underinsured, is able to request a voucher from her provider or through Partnership Health Center. This is just one small step in ensuring that all individuals in western Montana, regardless of their income, can care for their health.