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Colgate Athletes in Charity Video Game Challenge

Sat, Feb 26, 2011

Colgate will be part of a three-school charity video game challenge sponsored by Uplifting Athletes Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.  Student-athletes from Colgate will be joining their peers from North Carolina State and Penn State in this unique intercollegiate competition.

The participants will play an inter-squad tournament to determine the best player to represent them against the other teams’ champions in EA Sports NCAA Football 11 on XBOX 360.  Teams will go head-to-head via XBOX Live and utilize social media tools like Skype and Twitter so that players, fans and media can interact with each other in their quest for the Uplifting Athletes Championship Belt.

This event is being held as part of Global Rare Disease Day, held annually as a way to raise awareness for rare diseases and their impact on patients’ lives. 

The video game tournament is a warm-up for the Colgate chapter’s biggest fundraiser, “Lift For Life.”  The fourth annual event will be held March 23 at Sanford Field House at 7:30 p.m.  This year, the chapter is raising support and awareness for Ependymoma research. Ependymoma is rare cancer of the brain and spinal cord. For more information on the chapter visit  www.upliftingathletes.org/ua-chapter/colgate

Source: Colgate

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