Bob Huggins Fish Fry marks 10 years with $2.6M to support WVU Cancer Institute

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In celebration of the Bob Huggins Fish Fry’s 10-calendar year anniversary, supporters contributed a record $2.65 million to advantage lifesaving most cancers treatment and exploration at the WVU Cancer Institute.

Considering the fact that 2013, WVU Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bob Huggins has invited supporters, pals, and most cancers survivors to the Fish Fry to help brings about he cares about even though taking pleasure in a seafood feast, superior firm, and are living leisure. This year’s celebration – presented by Minor Common Retailers and in partnership with Barstool Sports – was held Friday, Feb. 18, at Mylan Park’s Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Middle and by using livestream. 

Huggins welcomed College of Kansas Men’s Basketball Head Mentor Monthly bill Self, Barstool Athletics founder Dave Portnoy, and current and former Mountaineer players to share participating own tales punctuated by Huggins exclusive commentary. Tony Caridi served as emcee, though Phillip Bowen and Lords of Lester supplied musical leisure.

Huggins’ endeavours raised a lot more than $2.65 million, together with a $500,000 present from Portnoy and a $300,000 contribution from Huggins. Proceeds from the party reward the Norma Mae Huggins Endowment at the WVU Most cancers Institute and Keep in mind the Miners Flagship Students Software.

“This year’s Fish Fry manufactured me additional know how particular and essential this event really is to West Virginia,” Huggins reported. “Not only did we elevate a ton of income for cancer, but we also experienced a report audience full of persons who have certainly purchased into our mission of defeating cancer. It’s awesome to see how a lot of sponsors, companions, and supporters are backing this bring about one particular decade afterwards. Dave Portnoy and his Barstool crew actually stepped up this year and served tremendously. We have arrive a very long way and have done so a lot good. But we’re just obtaining started off.”

Huggins set up the Norma Mae Huggins Endowment in 2003 to honor his mother, who passed away just after a extensive fight with colon cancer. Together with this year’s Fish Fry contributions, the endowment has elevated in excess of $16 million make a variance in the life of patients at the WVU Most cancers Institute.

“I want to extend my sincere congratulations to Bob Huggins for these kinds of a momentous Fish Fry,” Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, M.D., director of the WVU Cancer Institute, Jean and Laurence DeLynn Chair of Oncology, and affiliate professor of surgery at the WVU University of Medication, explained. “The donors who have supported him and the Fish Fry around the previous 10 a long time have created a tangible variation at the WVU Most cancers Institute, assisting us deliver large high quality care nearer to home for fellow Mountaineers. All of us at the WVU Most cancers Institute are influenced by Bob Huggins’ generosity of time and advocacy and are grateful his determination to our cause.”

Bear in mind the Miners is a nonprofit general public recognition campaign dedicated to telling the tale of America’s coal miners. Try to remember the Miners honors miners by situations, media, and its flagship Students Software. The Students Method has raised extra than $200,000 and money scholarships for mining engineering students at the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Means. 

“The longstanding partnership in between Remember the Miners and the Bob Huggins Fish Fry has resulted in significant expansion for the Remember the Miners Scholarship Endowment Fund,” Erik Muendel, founder and CEO of Brightline Interactive and co-founder of Recall the Miners, claimed. “The WVU Mining Extension Support and Mine Rescue Workforce pupils who benefit from these scholarships stand for the long term of mining technologies and safety. 10 years afterwards, the Fish Fry carries on to bolster Bear in mind the Miners’ mission of telling the story of the coal miner.”  

The Fish Fry was created feasible many thanks to dozens of sponsors, which includes best-amount sponsors WVU Medicine, Joe and Lisa Subrick, I.L. and Betty Sue Morris, and MVB. 

To guidance the Norma Mae Huggins Endowment and/or the WVU Most cancers Institute, visit https://cancer.wvumedicine.org/supplying for extra details.

All presents are built as a result of the WVU Foundation, the nonprofit corporation that gets and administers non-public donations on behalf of the College.