GLASSBORO, NJ – The Rowan University football team enrolled 255 people at its fourth annual Get In The Game. Save A Life. Be The Match Registry on Tuesday, April 24.  The event was held in the University’s Chamberlain Student Center.

Rowan registered 310 and 299 people in 2011 and 2010 respectively.  So far this year, 4,875 people were tested through the combined efforts of 15 schools that have participated in the event.  Another 15 colleges are holding events in an attempt to add 6,000 new people to the national registry.  Last year, over 8,600 potential donors were registered by the 30 schools that were involved.

In the spring of 2009, Rowan signed up 371 people for the registry, including defensive end Matt Hoffman (sr. Burlington, NJ/Burlington Twp.), who was selected and donated blood stem cells on November 16.  Hoffman was chosen as a donor to help cure a 58 year-old man suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.  Today, the man, Warren Sallach of Brenham, TX is cancer free.  Hoffman got the chance to meet Sallach and his family at the Gagliardi Trophy Presentation in Salem, VA that December.

Every year thousands of patients in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases like leukemia or lymphoma.  Their best or only hope of a cure is a transplant from an unrelated adult donor or umbilical cord blood unit.  The NMDP has facilitated over 50,000 marrow and cord blood transplants.  For additional information go to the website: www.marrow.org.