# @txstatebobcats on Facebook

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- **Original URL:** https://www.facebook.com/1360440096106967/posts/10159261226234424
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- **Posted:** 2021-09-09T14:53:12.000+00:00

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This year's Texas State Soccer Teal Match is this Sunday at 1 pm. It may seem like a normal game to those watching, but it's far more than that. This is the story of how the Teal Match came to be.

As some of you may know and some may not know, head coach Kat Conner is an Ovarian Cancer survivor. She is in her 6th year of survivorship. During Chemotherapy in 2016, coach Conner was reading a book by Julie Foudy called "Choose To Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously You". The ending chapter talked about giving back. That sparked an idea to involve Texas State Soccer to help in any way they could. 

Her idea was to help Ovarian Cancer patients by helping to fundraise and help pay for treatments for others when we scored a goal. From there it evolved in to the Teal Match. Teal is the ribbon color for Ovarian Cancer, which explains the teal uniforms the players wear. 

Each Teal Match/season would be dedicated to someone with Ovarian Cancer. After each goal we pass around a donation bucket, the money received goes to help pay for treatments and to help find a cure. For the 2021 Texas State Soccer season, Coach Conner and Goals2Cure have partnered with the Ovarcome; a foundation that has pledged to help fight Ovarian Cancer. All money collected after scoring goals this soccer season will be donated to Ovarcome.

This years Teal Match/2021 season has been dedicated to Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, who is fighting stage 3 Ovarian Cancer. 

If you or anyone you know would like to donate, please click the link below. #EatEmUp #Goals2Cure

Donate --> Ovarcome.org

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