Missy Vick (third from left) is pictured with her husband Tim Lane (second from left), immediate family members, their spouses and children during the Carol Vick Memorial halftime event at C-S Jr./Sr. High School February 9.
By Bruce Rolfe
A record number of sponsors, generous community support and a large turn out at the seventh annual Carol Vick Memorial game at Climax-Scotts Jr./Sr. High School February 9 helped raise more than $7,000.
The Carol Vick Memorial game was started seven years ago and has raised thousands of dollars and brought a huge amount of support for Climax-Scotts and Colon community members battling cancer over the years.
This year’s game was for Missy Lane.
Event organizer Josh Vick said money is still coming in. He said the money raised will go towards Missy’s medical costs and the Yerby-Vick Scholarship Fund.
Missy has battled two types of cancer and is doing well.
She said in the spring of 2019 she was diagnosed with hormone positive breast cancer. Due to detecting the cancer so early, her treatment was to have a lumpectomy, radiation and then to take a hormone blocker for the next 5 years. She continued with follow up appointments of alternating MRI’s and mammograms until July of 2023.
Last July she went in for a routine MRI which showed a spot doctors thought was nothing but wanted to biopsy just in case. Missy said the biopsy came back as triple negative breast cancer – a much more aggressive type than what she was diagnosed with in 2019. After several more tests and a second opinion at the University of Michigan, doctors determined that due to the cancer being detected so early, she again would only need a lumpectomy and radiation.
Missy said radiation finished in November and each day she heals a little more. She will finish her hormone blockers in August and her treatment for breast cancer will be complete.
Missy and her husband Tim said the large turnout at the February 9 Carol Vick Memorial game, support from sponsors and the support from the communities of Climax-Scotts and Colon, has meant a lot to the family.
“It’s overwhelming. It’s not surprising with this little community, because when I was going through my diagnosis and treatment, I had multiple people reach out to me saying they’re praying for me. It’s amazing how calming it made me feel, when all of those people reached out. An amazing little community,” said Missy, who wants to use her experiences to help educate other women so they can be protected from breast cancer.
“The one word that comes to mind is humility. It brings you back to the real world, humbleness. The community outreach has been pretty amazing. It’s one thing to get diagnosed with it once, but then you get to the second round, a worse type of cancer. It’s almost like everyone steps up to help. It’s amazing,” adds Tim.
Missy said every mammogram she has had since she was diagnosed has come back negative, which she is thankful for. She has also been able to escape chemotherapy twice, which she said is huge.
The Carol Vick Memorial game is named after former C-S girls varsity basketball coach and current C-S High School teacher Josh Vick’s mother, who was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 1995 when Josh was 15 years old and died six years later after she was told she would live six months.
Longtime C-S teacher, coach and former athletic director Kevin Langs suggested the idea of having a memorial game for Josh’s mother. Vick asked former Colon girls basketball coach Rob Hattan to team the two schools together each year for the memorial game.
Vick admits the event is special to him.
“It means a lot. It gives me an opportunity to remember my mother each year. I was just a young kid when this (his mother’s cancer diagnosis) went down. To give other people an opportunity to maybe have a different outcome with their mother. To get the information, to get some help, get the community support. All of it goes hand in hand. It’s amazing and I couldn’t ask for anything more from our wonderful community and Colon as well,” said Vick.
Also taking place during the ceremony, 2023 Yerby Vick Perseverance Scholarship winners, Addison Godbee from Climax Scotts and Simon Vinson from Colon were introduced at mid-court.
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