Wake Forest Athletics
PHOTOS: Spikeball Tournament for Melanoma Research Fundraiser
4/20/2015 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
By Erika Carrubba, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeHockey)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Wake Forest field hockey team hosted its sixth annual melanoma fundraiser on April 19 from 1-3 p.m. to raise money for melanoma research. This year the team will hosted a spike ball tournament.
The disease struck close to home for the Demon Deacon field hockey program in 2006, when former standout Maria Whitehead, who helped lead the team to its first-ever ACC and NCAA championships in 2002, lost her battle with melanoma.
For the past five years the field hockey team has hosted a dodgeball tournament but changed it to spike ball in 2015 after adopting the game as part of their warm-ups last season. Spikeball, a common beach game, is a team sport played by two teams of two players. The object of the game is to hit the ball into the net so that the opposing team cannot return it.
