Archive for the 'Marcia Williams' Category

March 17th, 2009

DC United’s Bone Marrow Donor Drive

DC United teamed up with Soccer Unites Utah and DKMS to host a bone marrow drive on Sunday in search of a match for Real Salt Lake midfielder Andy Williams' wife Marcia. "Even though it was a rainy, dreary day, more than 100 people including D.C. United staff and fans showed up to be screened at D.C. United's bone marrow drive in ...
February 5th, 2009

Bone Marrow Drive For Marcia Williams

The Galaxy and Chivas USA do their part down at the Home Depot Center.
January 29th, 2009

Bone Marrow Match Drive This Afternoon At Rio Tinto

Just wanted to give everyone the heads up that DKMS (the world's largest marrow donor center) is teaming up with Real Salt Lake and Soccer Unites Utah for this afternoon's Bone Marrow Drive from 3 - 7pm at Rio Tinto Stadium. There's been a lot of great press (especially Kyle McCarthy's over at Goal) lately about everything going on in both Marcia ...
November 11th, 2008

In Search Of A Donor – Marcia And Andy Williams

Billy Witz from the New York Times has an incredibe in - depth article chronicling the tumultuous last seven months of a professional athlete's career, his wife's battle with Leukemia and their search for a donor. Via NYTimes She received a diagnosis this summer of a rare form of leukemia and has struggled to find a donor match for a bone-marrow ...
October 22nd, 2008

Marcia And Andy Williams – The Fight Against Her Leukemia

This morning I had the most wonderful conversation with my five year old, Alexia. She had climbed into bed with me after her Dad had left for work. After we cuddled and slept for a few hours, we woke up, she looked at me and asked, “Mommy are you sick or tired”? I replied, “I am both baby”, she then said, “are you going to stay in the ...