Yale: Yale Football Staff Member Visits Congress on Life-Saving Mission

[News from the FCS]

Helping save a total stranger’s life by donating marrow turned out to be just the start of Chris Gennaro’s involvement with the cause of marrow donation during his time working at Yale. Gennaro, who made his life-saving donation around the same time that he first started working for the Yale football team in 2012, has also become one of the key volunteers for the Bulldogs’ annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive. And earlier this month he took his involvement to a national level, traveling to Washington, D.C., to be a part of Legislative Day for Be The Match® on Tuesday, Mar. 3. Gennaro, Yale’s director of football operations, spoke to members of Congress about the value of marrow donation, emphasizing how easy and rewarding the marrow donation process was for him.

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