September 20, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — NC State Dining and various campus organizations are hosting a tailgate event on September 22 for the NC State vs. Cincinnati away football game. In addition to a live broadcast and activities, students are invited to take part in a “Penny Wars” competition that will benefit the NC State football team’s chapter of Uplifting Athletes.
The tailgate event, called the Bearcat Beatdown, will host a “Penny Wars” competition between the residence halls on campus. Each residence hall will battle to collect the most pennies, while sabotaging their competition by inserting silver coins or dollar bills into another residence halls’ jar. At the end of the tailgate event, the residence hall that has the most points will win $300 in catering from Moe’s® Southwest Grill. All of the funds collected will be tallied and given to Uplifting Athletes.
Uplifting Athletes is a national organization that works with college football players to fund rare disease research. The NC State Football Team chose leukemia as the rare disease that they will raise money for in support of Offensive Coordinator Dana Bible. Coach Bible was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood, in November 2009. Bible has been in remission for the past fourteen months.
NC State football players Wayne Crawford, backup center; Mike Glennon, quarterback; and T.J. Graham, receiver began the team’s chapter of Uplifting Athletes. To educate students on the organization at the campus tailgate event, Crawford recorded a short video describing the NC State chapter. Click here to view the video.
For complete details about the Bearcat Beatdown, visit go.ncsu.edu/tailgate. To learn more about NC State Dining, visit www.ncsudining.com.
NC State Dining is a division of Campus Enterprises, the lead organization for retail and hospitality for NC State University. To learn more about Campus Enterprises, go to www.ncsu.edu/campusenterprises.
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