GLENSIDE, Pa. - In conjunction with the Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation (ARVF), Knights from all 19 varsity teams took part in "Conditioning for Childhood Cancer Bandana Day" Thursday morning. At the forefront of this event was head women's basketball coach and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee liasion Rose Katz, who personally knew Alicia as friends growing up together and in high school.
 
ARVF is named in honor of Alicia Rose DiNatale, who passed away at the age of 17 from a rare form of cancer called Adenocarcinoma. The foundation helps teens with cancer live a normal teenage life while in the hospital by funding teen lounges and providing teen kits. ARVF has raised over $2.5 million and have helped over 70,000 children.
 
The event grew in its second year at Arcadia as, 284 student-athletes took part in a voluntary early morning conditioning session sporting bandanas representing unity in the fight against childhood cancer. As a department, $1,119 was raise for ARVF through the sale of the bandanas, over $100 more than the amount raised last year.