From Mechelle's blog: Many paths led to this basketball game

The exhibition contest, involving area high school girls’ players and former college women’s standouts from Kansas State, Kansas, Missouri State, Nebraska, Wichita State and Iowa, raised money to help provide cancer-screening services for women in this rural area of Kansas.

Along with Riley and Stiles, another big name in women’s basketball came, despite having no ties to Kansas: Cynthia Cooper. The WNBA legend who now coaches at Prairie View A&M in Texas lost her mother to breast cancer and readily agreed to take part in both the game (as a co-coach of one team along with Stiles) and in a health-issues forum the next day.

“Any cause that helps encourage women to get their mammograms and take care of themselves, I want to be involved,” Cooper said. “The enthusiasm to help in the fight against cancer is universal. Here it’s a small town, but when I walked into the gym and saw that sea of pink, the energy that they’ve generated, it was amazing.”