People may think that when the Windsor High School volleyball team hits the court for action, all that's on their mind is kills, aces and blocks.

For the most part, that's true.

But for the month of October, they've had a new way of thinking: “Think Pink.”

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For years, the girls have been finding ways to help out. But this year, they thought, “Why not go all out and find a way to really give back to a community that supports them night after night?”

So for the month of October, the entire volleyball program has been selling T-shirts to support the Windsor Breast Friends Cancer åSupport Group foundation, a foundation near and dear to their hearts.

Head coach LaVerne Huston has been friends with Windsor resident Tracy Morey for many years. Morey is a six-year breast cancer survivor who, after her own fight against the disease, got together with a couple other women who'd fought the disease and formed the Windsor Breast Friends Cancer Support Group foundation to help other Windsor women get through their own battles.

And with October being the nationally recognized month for breast cancer awareness, everyone from the National Football League to the Colorado High School Activities Association is getting involved.

“We always want to give back to our community,” said Wizards assistant coach Kristin Ervin, who helped spearhead the idea. “The state volleyball association started doing stuff a few years ago, and we wanted to do our part. We've always done something, but never anything on this scale.”

The coaches and the girls threw some ideas around and decided rather than sell the usual fundraising items like discount cards, they wanted something where 100 percent of the proceeds would go back to the cause, and they chose Morey and her foundation because the money would stay local.

With the help of Huston Graphics, owned by Luke Burton, and Sean Hardy at Triple Crown Sports in Fort Collins, the girls decided to sell T-shirts.

Both Huston Graphics and Triple Crown Sports donated a complete set of shirts and the printing, so there was no overhead for the team.

And former Windsor High School volleyball standout and now assistant coach Stacy Manweiler came up with the design for the shirt, a pink ribbon with a volleyball in the center on a black shirt that simply says: Windsor Volleyball.

For $25, anyone could purchase a T-shirt to support the cause.

Morey was overwhelmed with pride for the youth of her community when she learned what the girls had in mind.

“It is so cool,” Morey said. “It is so humbling when they go out and want to do something like this, especially this large of a project. They've done something the past few years, but its usually been passing the can around for money. This was the first time they did it this way.”

Although the T-shirt sales have ended, the team is still taking donations throughout the month of October, and they wear their shirts during warm-up of games.

“We need to increase awareness of this disease,” Ervin said. “And we really wanted to give back to our community.”

The team plans to host a special evening for the women of the Windsor Breast Friends Cancer Support Group foundation at their last home match to honor them for all their work.

“It will be really fun for the women to get out and go to a volleyball game together,” Morey said. “We usually do whatever LaVerne wants to do, it's just so cool they wanted to do this.”

To help:

If you would like to donate to the Windsor volleyball breast cancer support campaign, contact LaVerne Huston at (970) 302-9204.