GLASSBORO, NJ – The Rowan University football team enrolled 299 people in the Be The Match Bone Marrow Registry on Tuesday, April 27.

The Profs were among 29 teams participating in the Get in the Game. Save a Life. program. The campaign surpassed its goal of adding 5,000 new potential donors to the registry by signing up 8,803 people. Twenty-seven percent of this year’s additions were minority candidates, which make up a large portion of those patients looking for bone marrow donations.

The spring of 2009 was the first time that Rowan held a registry. It enrolled 371 people, including defensive end Matt Hoffman (jr. Burlington, NJ/Burlington Twp.), who was selected as a match for a 52 year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Hoffman donated blood stem cells this past fall and missed the final game of the season.

On any given day, thousands of men, women and children are searching the registry for a life-saving donor. These patients have leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases that can be treated by a bone marrow or cord blood transplant. For many of the patients a transplant may be the best and only hope for a cure.

The National Marrow Donor Program has facilitated over 25,000 marrow and cord blood transplants. For additional information go to the website: www.marrow.org.