WKU hosts fourth annual ‘Bat Out Breast Cancer’ event

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – October is breast cancer awareness month and Monday night on the Hill, WKU softball and baseball paired up with the Graves Gilbert Clinic to support the cause in the fourth annual ‘Bat Out Breast Cancer’ event.

Topper nation took to Nick Denes Field to raise further awareness about the disease, where athletes and community members donated money to swing for the fences.

Also as a part of the event, those in attendance had a chance to get an autograph from some of their favorite WKU sluggers.

Tops baseball head coach Marc Rardin has been on the Hill for four years now, and he helped get the event started back in 2022 because of his wife’s battle with breast cancer.

Now that it continues to grow year after year, he shared what that means for the program.

“ Unfortunately, cancer really affects all of us, and in this case, when it has affected a lot of different people, not just me and my wife, to be able to get out and have some fun and get involved and do something bigger than yourself, I think our guys enjoy that,” Rardin said. “We talk a lot about the selflessness and going out and doing something, and this is one of those cases.”