Re: SUNY Plattsburgh 2019-20 - Steve Moffat - Season 1
Cardinal Hockey Fans,
Below is an email that went out to our hockey alumni base regarding the upcoming ALS weekend and I would like to share it with you. My request is, that you encourage (bring) a friend that does NOT have season tickets to come to the games vs. Brockport and Geneseo and support our efforts in raising awareness and money for ALS. Thank you in advance and see you this weekend!
Steve Moffat
We have some news that we would like to share with you about one of our own Plattsburgh State Brothers. Below is an email that he shared with me...
For those not familiar with who I am, my name is Lenny Pereira and I was diagnosed with ALS in August 2018.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. It affects as many as 30,000 in the United States, with 5,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Estimates suggest that ALS is responsible for as many as five of every 100,000 deaths in people aged 20 or older.
Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.
Steve Moffat graciously contacted me in July of this year and asked if I would be interested in participating in this ALS event. Without any hesitation I stand here before you today with tremendous hope that with our efforts this weekend, Plattsburgh State hockey is staking its claim in fighting this disease.
We know ALS is a disease we can tackle, a problem we can solve. ALS is curable; it’s just underfunded. Most of us here today are all aware of the monumental movement that the ice bucket challenge, envisioned by Pete Frates, was. Because of that movement, and its tremendous funding, I stand here today as the first participant in the phase two T REG trial in the United States.
Today, with efforts like these there is real hope, like never before.
Thank you
Lenny
What will we do...
1. We will have ALS information in the track portion of the fieldhouse during the entire weekend.
2. We will have special ALS Game jerseys auctioned off during the weekend.
3. T-Shirt sales
4. Silent auction and raffle items up for grabs. We have NHL and NFL Autographed jerseys up for auction, raffle items from local vendors, etc.
5. 50/50 raffle each night.
Below is the link and instructions to donate directly to the TREGS Study.
Directions -
1. Click on Link below
2. Click one time gift or recurring monthly gift
3. Choose amount
4. Go to Gift Designation - Select OTHER
5. Type in the box - TREG Study
6. Choose next and fill in as required
https://givingforms.houstonmethodist.org/GeneralGivingForm
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STEPHEN MOFFAT
Head Men's Hockey Coach
Fieldhouse
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(o) 518-564-3607
(c) 518-802-7620
plattsburgh.edu