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Jesse Sanchez of Barrow wore pink gloves onto the playing field last Saturday when the Barrow Whalers met the Nikiski Bulldogs in the state championship game.
Sophomore starter Sanchez did it to remind spectators - and anyone who happens to see this photo - that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to encourage them to support both the battle against cancer and the women afflicted by it in any way they can.
His own mother has had two bouts with cervical cancer, so Jesse knows what the fight is all about.
So does his sister, Mariska, a Barrow cheerleader, who got into trouble for wearing a t-shirt in support of breast cancer patients emblazoned with the words, "I love boobs" to school.
As readers know, the Whalers lost that championship game.
Yet, even within that loss, they scored their little wins here and there.
Jesse's pink gloves was among those little wins.
Now, as for me, my time is so full and I have so much that feels so impossible that I must accomplish over the next four or five days that I am putting this blog on "one picture a day" mode. Don't be surprised if I miss a day or two altogether - like I did yesterday.
Once everything is out of the way, I anticipate having a brief period of time when I can go at this like it is really what I do.