MLL New York Lizards

Lizards team up with Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

January 15, 2007 - Major League Lacrosse (MLL)
New York Lizards News Release


Uniondale, NY (January 15, 2007) -- The Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse kicked off their partnership with the Long Island Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society last week with an assembly at North Country Road Middle School in Miller Place. The Lizards and the LLS are specifically partnering up for the School & Youth's Pennies for Patients® Program.

School & Youth's Pennies for Patients® encourages children to collect spare change to help fund research seeking cures for leukemia, which causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20, lymphoma and myeloma. Students across the country are collecting pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters during the three-week period in which the program runs to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Last year nearly $15 million was raised nationally through this program alone.

This year the Long Island school that raises the most money through the program will be honored at halftime of a Long Island Lizards home game and will be visited by a Lizards player during the school year.

"This program is absolutely phenomenal," said Dave Kotowski, President of the Long Island Lizards. "Blood Cancer is an epidemic in this country and Pennies for Patients® allows the kids to get involved and really help out others, which is a fantastic lesson to learn at such a young age."

Long Island Lizards partner Commerce Bank also plays a tremendous role in the program as they have donated all of the coin banks to the Long Island Chapter of the LLS that will be used in the program.

About the Long Island Lizards and Major League Lacrosse

The two-time World Champion Long Island Lizards are the premier team of Major League Lacrosse. The Lizards open up their season on May 25th against their arch rival the Boston Cannon's. This game will be seen live on ESPN2. Season tickets, the VIP Experience, Birthday Parties, Flex Plans and Corporate Partnerships and Corporate Ticket Plans are on sale now. For more information, call 1-866-LIZARD-1 or visit us online at www.longislandlizards.com.

Major League Lacrosse, a ten-team professional outdoor lacrosse league, was founded in 1999 by fitness entrepreneur Jake Steinfeld, CEO of Body by Jake Global L.L.C., and founding partners Dave Morrow, a former champion lacrosse player and now CEO of Warrior Lacrosse, a leading global provider of innovative and high performance lacrosse equipment; and Timothy B. Robertson, former CEO of The Family Channel and the current chairman of Bay Shore Enterprises, L.L.C., an investment holding company with activities in international media and Internet technology ventures. The MLL commenced play in June of 2001. The MLL is comprised of two divisions. The Eastern Conference contains the original six teams, Boston, Long Island, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Rochester and Washington. The Western Conference debuted in the 2006 season with MLL expansion franchises Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional league information can be found at www.majorleaguelacrosse.com.

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