Department, Class To Sponsor Hoops For Hearts

The health and kinesiology department and Robert Case’s undergraduate administrative class will host several events to benefit the American Heart Association on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 27-28), including a Hoops For Hearts three-on-three basketball tournament and silent and live auctions.

The three-on-three tournament will begin on Friday morning with a preliminary tournament for men’s, women’s and co-rec teams in the Health and Kinesiology Center Gym. The tournament, which is open to teams of four students, faculty and staff in any combination, will consist of 15 minutes of play, or 10 points, for each game.

Co-rec teams consist of combination men-women teams with at least two women on the floor at all times, according to Case, professor and chair of the health and kinesiology department.

The championship games for the men’s and women’s teams will be held on Saturday during the SHSU-Stephen F. Austin halftime for the respective gender’s basketball team.

During Saturday’s doubleheader, there will be a silent auction in the corridor around the concourse of the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum. Approximately 40 sponsors have donated items for the auction, and prizes will include golf for four and a manicure, Case said.

Case, an auctioneer, will also have a live auction during the halftime of the men’s game. The two items to be auctioned off include a 27-inch flat screen color TV, with a built-in DVD and VHS player donated by Ward’s Furniture and Flooring and a group of power tools from Home Depot.

Last year, an auctioned TV raised $1,200 for the AHA, Case said.

“During each halftime we will also be doing a ‘pass the hat bucket brigade’ collection plate,” Case said. “Students will be dressed in hoops for hearts shirts from the American Heart Association and they’ll be passing plates around the audience so they can throw in a quarter, a nickel or a dollar bill if they want to for the AHA.

"Last year we collected $1,000 at halftime," he said.

The cost to participate in the basketball tournament is $20 per team, or $5 per person, and the entry deadline is Wednesday (Feb. 25). Entry forms can be picked up and dropped off on the second floor of the HKC, in the department of Recreational Sports Office or in Case’s office in HKC Room 218.

Playing times for teams will be posted no later than Thursday (Feb. 26), and the preliminary tournament is expected to run no later than 1 p.m., depending on the number of entries, Case said.

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SHSU Media Contact: Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 19, 2004
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