Temple Football team manager Michel’Le Daughtry/Paul Klein TTN

Temple Athletics’ football team is holding a bone marrow drive today, Apr. 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in room 200 of the Student Center South. Below is an excerpt from “Football team directly touched by bone marrow drive,” explaining how you can help and what the screening process is. Click here to read the entire article, which profiles the football team’s team manager, Michel’Le Daughtry, who is battling acute myeloid leukemia for the second time.

Temple football began hosting its annual bone marrow drive in Spring 2008. That year, the team screened a collegiate record 630 potential donors for the National Marrow Donor Program. Last year, the number of people screened dropped to 218 individuals. Ryan McNamee, the director of player development, said the team hopes to screen 800 potential donors this year. The bone marrow drive will be held in Room 200 of the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. The process takes about 20 minutes to complete. Potential donors, who must be between 18 and 60, fill out forms first and then get the four corners of their cheeks swabbed.

-Jennifer Reardon