How Entry Fees Made all the Difference in Chicago

Summer is always an exciting time for the volleyball community. It is peak season for beach volleyball tournaments around the U.S. From coast to coast, the excitement of these competitions brings communities together to enjoy participating in and watching this exciting sport. With the crowds of people, the record keeping, and communication between coaches and […]

Carrollton at the Heart of Dig Pink

An estimated 155,000 individuals are living with stage IV breast cancer in the U.S. Each day, metastatic breast cancer takes the lives of 110 people. These statistics strike the hearts of many, including those of the girls and staff at Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. This connection to the breast cancer community for the […]

Baden, Side-Out Foundation Team Up to Fight Breast Cancer

Baden continues to be the official ball of The Side-Out Foundation, creating exclusive Dig Pink® line of volleyballs and other products to support Side-Out’s mission. RENTON, Wash. (February 8, 2018) – Baden Sports, Inc., today announced it has been selected to continue to provide the official ball of The Side-Out Foundation, a Virginia-based non-profit organization […]

Side-Out & W20 Foundation’s Team Up 4 Community is a WIN-WIN

When teams are interested in participating in Dig Pink initiatives, Side-Out stresses the impact they can have on their communities by hosting. Just by involving their school/club community, local community and breast cancer community, Dig Pink teams have an opportunity to increase their impact. Side-Out understands the importance of community involvement and that’s why teaming […]

Power of Pink and Side-Out Team Up for Impactful Weekend

On Saturday, October 14, a total of 30 high school teams will meet at Queensbury High School in Queensbury, N.Y. for the Eighth Annual Power of Pink Volleyball Tournament. The Power of Pink Tournament begins at 8 a.m. EST and eight different courts will feature high school teams mostly from the area. “We’re really excited […]

How is Side-Out Tackling the Truth About Breast Cancer?

Have you ever wondered if you’re getting the complete story while reading a news article or watching a video from a popular media outlet? Maybe you get a general summary on the topic, but there still seems to be some details missing. A recently published research study from the National Cancer Institute showed that women […]

Volleyball is Leading the Way

As a daughter of someone who had stage IV breast cancer, I like to consider myself fairly knowledgeable on the disease and some of the treatment options available (I’m no expert of course, but I experienced it first hand). However, about two weeks ago I got the chance to tour one of our research facilities and […]

Choosing Life: Previvor in Pink

My Family

I am a Previvor. What is a Previvor, you say?  “Cancer Previvors are individuals who are survivors of a predisposition to cancer but who haven’t had the disease. This group includes people who carry a hereditary mutation, a family history of cancer, or some other predisposing factor” (FORCE: Facing our risk of cancer empowered). My […]

Security Can Blind You but Knowledge Can Help You See

We seem to put ourselves in a bubble of security sometimes, a bubble in which we tell ourselves stuff like, “that won’t happen to me” or “what are the odds it will affect me of all people”. Whether our mind stays in this bubble or not, life comes at us with everything its got. I […]