Before we give you the details on next week’s blood drive, we want to show you the Causeway Classic Blood Drive perpetual trophy that is ٺƵ’ for a year after our win over Sacramento State in November.
There’s the trophy, in the photo, held by two of the student interns who work with Sacramento-based BloodSource to put on Davis campus blood drives, including the Causeway Classic drives in advance of the Causeway Classic football game between ٺƵ and Sacramento State.
Each school holds a two-day Causeway Classic Blood Drive, and the trophy goes to the school that registers the most participants. In 2014, the Aggies edged the Hornets, 1,653 to 1,642, winning the trophy for the first time since 2010 and taking a 4-3 lead in the competition that began in 2008.
The trophy is on display at the Community Service Resource Center, 106 .
The Davis campus’s BloodSource interns, Shane Hall ’17, Mymy Nguyen ’15 and Carolina Ryklansky ’16, recruit volunteers for the blood drives, put up fliers, and promote the drives on social media and through email. Hall and Nguyen are majoring in neurobiology, physiology and behavior, while Ryklansky is studying pharmaceutical chemistry.
“I just like the environment of BloodSource — the mission, the goals,” said Nguyen, who has volunteered with the event each year she has been a student. “I felt like they wanted to make a bigger impact.”
Hall said he helped organize blood drives at his high school and wanted to continue to help when he arrived at ٺƵ.
Your next opportunity to give blood and platelets is next week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 27-28, in bloodmobiles on the Quad. Every participant receives a $5 Togo’s gift card. “Come hydrated with a photo ID and bring your Aggie Pride and spirit,” said Felicia Roper of BloodSource. She reminded faculty and staff, if their time is limited, to ask for “fast-track” passes to go to the front of the donor line.
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu