University of Delaware Athletics
2015 Women's Health Awareness Game
2/9/2015 11:11:00 AM | Delaware Athletics
Women's Basketball vs. Drexel
Sunday, February 22 at The BOB
Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Tip-off at 2 p.m.
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Gameday Attire 
Fans are encouraged to wear PINK or RED to the game in support of women's health awareness.
The color red represents strength, joy and power and during American Heart Month in February, it symbolizes the fight against heart disease in women. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, taking more lives than all forms of cancer combined. But we have the power to save lives – our own, our mother's, daughter's and friend's. Now is the time to stand together, to fight harder, to shout louder. Now is the time to Go Red. Go Red For Women is a movement that is by women for women. For details, click here. 
The color pink is in honor of WBCA Play 4 Kay breast cancer awareness initiative - a nation of coaches raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung cancer, and it is the most common cancer among American women, other than skin cancers. For more information on the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, click here.
(12:30 to 2 p.m.) Women's Health Fair on the Concourse (Sec. 2 - 9)
- FREE health screenings for women compliments of HealthyU Employee Wellness, University of Delaware School of Nursing, and Healthy HENS. *All screenings for women are subject to availability on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Interactive & educational women's health exhibits provided by staff from organizations including:
- American Heart Association
- American Cancer Society
- National Brain Tumor Society
- Blood Bank of Delmarva
- Christiana Care Health System
- reNu Chiropractic
- American Heart Association
- 'Go Red' Blue Hens Heart Beads for the first 500 women through the women's health fair.
(Halftime) T.I.M.E. for Health Guest Speaker Nicolle D. Surratte
Nicolle D. Surratte works with organizations who seek to promote health and wellness as a lifestyle. Through her company, NspireD, she motivates, guides and breathes life into others.
A native of Sharon Hill, PA, Nicolle resides in New Castle, DE. She received a BA in Psychology with minors in Elementary Education and Voice; and a MS in Deaf Education from Western Maryland College (renamed McDaniel) in Westminster, MD.
Nicolle spent more than 25 years in the field of education. Her career began at the PA School for the Deaf in Philadelphia, PA and continued in public and private schools. She has been a Sign Language, music and math instructor to children as well as adults.
Nicolle embraces life and aims to live each day with an exclamation point! She is a breast cancer “thriver” who will celebrate her 4th “cancer-versary” in June! Nicolle connects to other women with whom she is “Linked in Pink” in her role as an ambassador for The Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia, PA.
A fitness and nutrition enthusiast, Nicolle completed two marathons as a racewalker for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Ireland & Alaska). She also completed two Susan G. Komen 3-Day/60-Mile Walk events in Philadelphia, PA. Last year, Nicolle was the first woman to cross the finish line and the 2nd person.
Nicolle's passion for helping others is undeniable. As a speaker, she inspires others during seminars, conferences, retreats, and health fairs. She initiates conversations that inspire change within the community as co-host on a local cable television channel. Nicolle is a singer/songwriter who released her first CD entitled “NspireD to Breathe.” In 2015, she will also release her first book, as well as a line of greeting cards.
Her daugther, Nicalia E. Thompson, is a 2014 UD graduate! She will encourage you to take “T.I.M.E. for Health” with strategies that are practical and easy to implement. You'll be NspireD...to make a change!
