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'World's Longest Layup Line' Raises Money For Cancer In Ocean City
The Ocean City girls basketball team walked five miles on Sunday to raise money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
OCEAN CITY, NJ — In what they called "the world's longest layup line," the Ocean City High School girls basketball team walked across the island to raise money for cancer research and awareness.
The team hit each of Ocean City's seven courts in the five-mile walk Sunday, raising money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, which focuses on all cancers affecting woman. It is named for famed women's basketball coach Kay Yow, who died in 2009 of breast cancer.
As the girls did layups, their balls had the names of people they were honoring on them, Coach Stephane Gaitley explained in a video shared on Twitter.
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Gaitley shared live tweets as the girls dribbled across the island. At each court, team members did layups and shared a tip about fighting cancer.It’s “Saturday Night Live”-in Ocean City. It’s the night before our big @KayYowFund event with the Longest Layup Line. We will make a layup at 7cts covering 6 miles in Ocean City. I’m proud of our ladies learning to fight for others. There’s still time to give-Venmo - @Ocbball pic.twitter.com/2ZexkuIuE0
— Coach Gaitley (@Coachgaitley) November" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/Coachgaitl... 26, 2022
The team stopped at each court to shoot, ending at the 6th Street Civic Center for pizza.
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Gaitley said in a tweet that she was looking forward to donating the funds raised.
"Let's work together to make the world better," she wrote.
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