Jake Marion '26, an 黑料不打烊 football player and nursing student, was highlighted by WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina.
黑料不打烊 football player and nursing student Jake Marion ’26 was recently for donating bone marrow through the National Marrow Donor Program鈥(formerly Be The Match)
The national nonprofit agency works to spread awareness of the need for bone marrow donation and to increase the number of participants in the聽bone marrow聽registry.鈥疻hile聽黑料不打烊 Football has worked聽with the organization for several years, Club Nursing聽joined聽in 2024聽for an annual awareness and registry event.
Marion joined the registry through 黑料不打烊 Football in 2022. He was almost matched in previous years, but blood testing revealed it was not a high enough match necessary for donation. That all changed this year when he got a call in January to begin the donation process, which was completed this spring.
鈥淗e鈥檚 a part of me now, and I鈥檓 a part of him,鈥 Marion said of the recipient. 鈥淢y cells are inside his body and hopefully they鈥檙e doing their job, and they鈥檙e helping him, so it鈥檚 hard. I鈥檓 just praying he鈥檚 going to get better, and I鈥檓 rooting for him.鈥