Men's Basketball Lends a Helping Hand to Manhattanville College's "AJ5 Fund"

PURCHASE, N.Y. - The Elms College men's basketball team recently donated their meal money to help support the "AJ5 Fund" started by Manhattanville College's men's basketball program to honor AJ Buchanan who is suffering from cancerous brain tumors.

For the Manhattanville men's basketball team, the program's Most Valuable Contributor wears number five to games and yet has never played in a game, never been to college and can't even get his driver's license yet. So when 14-year old AJ Buchanan faced a setback in his battle against cancerous brain tumors, there was no hesitation in the team's response.

But while Manhattanville came immediately to their teammates' aid both emotionally and financially, it was a team not on the Manhattanville schedule this year that provided the impetus to form the AJ5 Fund and spread AJ's story to a larger audience.

That team was the Blazers' men's basketball team, who saw the story on the Manhattanville Athletics website and volunteered to not use the team's meal money for one night and instead donate the money to AJ and his family.

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