Lafayette football players are helping tackle breast cancer this season.

“First of all, a lot of our players are wearing pink to show support, and secondly, we’re having kids go around at this next game collecting money from the fans to donate,” Tom Beckmeyer, freshmen football coach, said

The football players can be seen sporting pink socks, gloves and wristbands. Some even have pink cleats.

“We’ll do pink socks, pink wristbands, pink tape. It just kind of depends game to game on what the seniors want, but they’re always sporting some type of pink during October,” junior Hannah Taylor, supervising manager of the varsity football team, said.

As the supervising manager, Taylor works on paperwork, equipment or anything else that the coaches or Heather Carroll, the athletic trainer, needs.

In addition, the football team collects money at games and practices for donation.

“There are several different foundations out for breast cancer and we’ll all chip in. We’ll all go around and ask for donations and we’ll donate with the Lafayette Football name,” Taylor said.

For the football team, wearing pink and collecting donations is a way to commemorate those who have struggled with breast cancer.

“We all know somebody who has been affected by it, so it’s just one of the things that they think is really helpful and a way to remember those who have survived or those that we’ve lost to it,” Taylor said.