Floral Park assistant coach Chris McKie remembers getting a St. Baldrick’s bracelet in his freshman year of high school. A member of Floral Park’s Class of 2018, he had shaved his head eight times as a kid in support of fighting childhood cancer through St. Baldrick’s.

He knew Aiden Binkley, an 11-year-old child from Floral Park who was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in 2008 before passing away in December 2010.

“I remember being 8, 9, 10 years old, in my Floral Park soccer uniform, rushing after a game to go to St. Baldrick’s, just to shave my head for a great cause,” McKie said. “Keeping it this strong in the town and having this much support, it’s the coolest thing ever.”

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a charity committed to supporting and funding research to fight childhood canc

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