Posts tagged ‘Pink Zone’
Think Pink
If you end up missing the mark with a certain someone’s Valentine’s gift, or forget it all together, you are in luck. The Lady Lion basketball team launched the Pink Zone Auction this week, which is being hosted on charitybuzz.net. There is a wide array of auction items, 46 in total. 
You could bid on a chance to meet Tony Bennett, spend an evening with ex-CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson ’85 and her husband, experience a taping of Saturday Night Live in New York with Penn State President Graham Spanier and his wife, or collect a few signed (and used) Paterno items. My favorite item in the bunch is the chance to have Chip Kidd ’86, famed book jacket designer, design a cover just for you.
The goal is to raise $150,000 with proceeds benefitting breast cancer charities. There is still plenty of time to bid. The auction opened this past Monday and goes until March 2.
To view a full list of auction items click here.
If one auction isn’t enough for you, another Pink Zone online auction is taking place at gopsusports.com. It also runs until March 2. Happy bidding.
Jessie Knuth, graphic designer
Two Great Basketball Shots
Andy Colwell is a Penn State student who is an avid and very talented photographer—he does a lot of shooting for Penn State Public Information and is amassing a portfolio of terrific images. (He’s the guy who took the photo of the Pattee Mall in an October snowstorm that many of you loved.) He often photographs Penn State basketball, and two of his recent photos from Lady Lion games really stood out for me.
One is the above image from last Sunday’s Pink Zone game; it captures Karisma Penn of Illinois fouling (to say the least) Penn State’s Tyra Grant. Click to see it larger—and note the sweat flying off Grant’s uniform!
The other is the photo below of Grant flying through the air toward the basket in last Thursday night’s game against Purdue.
You can see more photos from the Pink Zone game here, and you might also want to check out Andy’s own Web site, here.
Tina Hay, editor
The Bryce Jordan Center, All in Pink
The Penn State women’s basketball team got a great win on Sunday, beating Illinois 70-66—the Lady Lions have now won six straight and are second in the Big Ten standings, which is terrific to see after a couple of years where Penn State really struggled.
Today was the fourth annual Pink Zone Day, where everybody—and I mean everybody—wore pink; more than 250 breast-cancer survivors were honored at halftime; and more than $66,000 was raised for breast cancer charities.
Below is a montage of four photos I took today, with captions below.
Clockwise from top: Mimi Barash Coppersmith ’54, former chair of the Penn State board of trustees and a breast cancer survivor … Tammy Miller '93, '95g, another survivor … survivors and supporters dancing at halftime … the Nittany Lion in pink.
If you want to see a few more photos from Pink Zone Day (not a lot—just 13 in all), click here. And there’s still time to donate to this year’s Pink Zone cause; you can do that here.
Tina Hay, editor
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