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Wrist Band a Reminder

Mon, Jan 03, 2011

Wrist Band a Reminder

Athletes spend much of their time in uniform looking, well, uniform ... as one, as a team.

Still, many find ways to accessorize and this is especially of female athletes, including those at HCS.

However, the single pink wristband each girls basketball player wears this season is no fashion statement. Instead, it's a way to remember.

Each girls basketball player in the Center State Conference this season is wearing one of the wristbands (like the one modeled by HCS basketball player Kendall Rusch in the photo) in memory of Melissa "Missy" Lasowski, a first-grade teacher in the Herkimer school district and varsity softball and junior varsity basketball coach.

About the time school started this past fall, the former Missy Richvalsky, died from breast cancer. She was 30 years old.

Lasowski was a three-sport all-star at Mohawk Central School. She graduated in 1998 and played basketball and softball at Elmira College. She also started a summer AAU girls basketball program as well.

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