KINGSTON, R.I. - For the fourth year in a row the Rhode Island Women's Swimming & Diving team will participate in a "Pink Out" Meet along with the Providence Women's Swimming & Diving team. This will be the second year that Rhode Island has hosted the event after the first two were held at Providence College.

Both teams will wear pink caps (such as the one pictured above) to help raise breast cancer awareness. The entire facility will be decorated with assorted pink decorations such as balloons, lane lines. These decorations will be set up all day on Wednesday as to help everyone who walks by the pool know about the event.

"This is our fourth year doing the Pink Out Meet and a great intra-state rivalry exists between the prorams," head coach Mick Westkott said. "We're excited to have Providence College come down for the meet."

This event follows a September outing where the team raised $7,705 for the American Cancer Society and Women & Infants Hospital at the Swim Across America-Rhode Island Open Water Swim in Narragansett, R.I.

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. 

Rhode Island will swim against New Hampshire on Saturday, Nov. 9 before swimming against Providence for the Pink Out Meet on Wednesday, Nov. 13. In every Pink Out Meet so far Rhode Island has beaten out Providence. Rhody has also claimed every meet they have particpated in this season defeating Maine, Springfield and Coast Guard.