Fighting Scleroderma Disease
(St. Louis, MO) – Paul Ellis is fighting the spread of Scleroderma Disease. The Missouri Baptist University basketball announcer lost his daughter Lyndsey to the disease over a decade ago, but fights scleroderma disease in every way he can.
The former college coach, high school referee and current broadcaster helps host an annual youth basketball tournament to raise money and awareness about this autoimmune disease, for which there is no cure. Nor do doctors know the cause. The ‘Lyndsey Ellis Memorial Basketball Tournament’ starts Friday night at Parkway South High School. Ellis’ tournament runs all weekend and ends late on Sunday afternoon.
Scleroderma causes the body to produce too much collagen and the effects can range from making one’s life more difficult to causing internal organs to shut down and taking the life of the person.
We at Valley Hoops Insider urge you, our friends in the basketball world to consider donating to this cause by attending the tournament or making a donation. Your donation check can be made out to ‘Scleroderma Foundation’. You can mail that check to Paul Ellis – 1300 Big Bend – Ballwin – Missouri -63021.
Here is our conversation about the tournament, his daughter Lyndsey and a little bit of college basketball!
Thank you for considering supporting this worthy cause and my friend Paul Ellis. Please visit the ‘Lyndsey Ellis Memorial Basketball Tournament’ this weekend.
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As we near the closing of the portal window, we've reached 1900. Some of them never to play college basketball again, earn a college degree and some to play at a much lower level than they did last season.
I guess we'll be seeing this in a @RacersHoops uniform this year. Glad AJ is staying in the @ValleyHoops.
