Taryn Rainey shaves in support of cancer research
Every March, first-year catcher/outfielder Taryn Rainey of the Brandeis softball team makes a bold commitment to shave her head for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, holding a fundraiser for pediatric cancer research. This year, she is bringing this fundraiser to the Brandeis community to continue raising awareness for childhood cancer. One of her biggest motivations to keep raising awareness for St. Baldrick’s is her grandfather, William Rainey, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and beat cancer when she was in middle school. He has since passed on, but he remains a huge part of her reason to keep the fundraiser going.…
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