Inside Gary Andersen's Office - View 1
Like most, Andersen has been touched by cancer. His secretary, Lisa Powell, is a 10-year survivor of breast cancer. His sister-in-law recently came through a year-and-a-half fight with the disease.
Wisconsin's annual women's clinic, called Football 101, contributes its proceeds to the local branch of the Susan G. Komen organization to fight breast cancer. The event is held each summer, right after the Badgers return for the fall. Powell started the event before Andersen's hiring.
Andersen keeps a picture from the 2013 event, showing him with the clinic participants, on a shelf behind his desk.
"We can give back as a football program," he said. "It's a great time for ourselves, our kids. This has become very, very important to me. It comes up here every year when our kids come back to start fall, it's one of the first things we do."
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