By Stephanie Starks | Staff Writer
Baylor students celebrated homecoming by giving blood — and taking a few swings at Iowa State’s mascot.
Baylor Health Services and Carter BloodCare partnered Tuesday through Thursday for a blood drive on Third Street in front of Moody Memorial Library, giving students an opportunity to support patients in need amid homecoming week festivities.
Over the past two years, Baylor donors have donated more than 900 pints of blood to Carter BloodCare.
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a single pint of blood can save up to three lives. This blood goes to patients needing clotting factors, plasma-based treatments or those in trauma or surgical care.
Baylor Health Services’ outreach leadership planned something extra for what it called the first homecoming blood drive. Uriah Yarbrough, outreach coordinator for Baylor Health Services, said the idea came after last year’s team considered holding a blood drive during homecoming but instead scheduled one during Revivalry week.
“I saw that there were a lot of events around homecoming,” Yarbrough said. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is amazing,’ and then I was just like, ‘Why not?’ I reached out ...