{"id":155585,"date":"2026-02-08T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:36:07","slug":"alzheimers-all-womens-football-league-holds-draft-day-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155585\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s All Women\u2019s Football League holds draft day in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Alzheimer\u2019s All Women\u2019s Football League held its draft day Saturday at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Event Center, officially kicking off its fifth season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The league includes women ages 21 to 70 from across the Lubbock community, all playing with one mission: to raise awareness and funding to support Alzheimer\u2019s research and resources in the Hub City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chairs of the organization said the football league has brought opportunities, awareness and community members together to help people battling the disease know they are not alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe family started this organization to raise money, to put money in the family hands, to caregivers if they need help, it\u2019s such a hard disease, that it takes a lot of people,\u201d said Vanessa Houtchens, chair of the Alzheimer\u2019s Football League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jessica Stafford, co-chair of the league, said all funds raised stay here in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo every dime we raise stays here in Lubbock, helping our local community, helping families here, helping raise awareness, research, so we are here today to just kind of spread that awareness,\u201d Stafford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">People can learn how to sign up to volunteer, donate or stay up-to-date on game times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Alzheimers-Football-League-61570175136667\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Alzheimers-Football-League-61570175136667\/\">here on the Alzheimer\u2019s Football League Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Alzheimer\u2019s All Women\u2019s Football League held its draft day Saturday at the Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-155585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}