Teamwork pays off for Kiama Central Netball Team Posted on March 15, 2012February 25, 2018 by Carly du Toit The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) would like to send a huge thank you to the Kiama Central Senior A’s Netball Team for their incredible support of cancer research. Late last year, the team set themselves a goal to raise $30,000 for our cancer charity before the team captain Karen Appleby’s 30th birthday. Their efforts culminated in February with a grand ball (“A Bit-of-Bling Black Tie Ball”) which brought families, friends and local businesses together for a night of entertainment, dinner and dancing. This dedicated group of women unfortunately have a very good reason to be so passionate about cancer research, as each member of the team has supported a parent through this terrible disease. Some have been lucky and their parents have recovered, but others are still fighting cancer or have sadly lost their battles. Karen, whose mother is now in remission after being diagnosed with breast cancer twice, said the heartbreaking statistic was not a team curse, but a mark of how common cancer has become. Continue reading “Teamwork pays off for Kiama Central Netball Team”
