{"id":5750,"date":"2019-02-25T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:27:42","slug":"8th-annual-think-pink-games-draw-a-big-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2019\/02\/25\/8th-annual-think-pink-games-draw-a-big-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Annual Think Pink Games Draw a Big Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wieden Gymnasium, packed for the Think Pink games.<\/p><\/div>\n

The University of Maine at Presque Isle\u2019s 8th<\/sup> Annual Think Pink basketball games drew a huge crowd on Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the Wieden Gymnasium. Students, staff, faculty, community members and more attended the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games held against UMPI rival, the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Spectators and players wore shades of pink to represent patients and survivors who were or still are battling cancer. The money raised during Think Pink games is donated to the American Cancer Society<\/p>\n

The UMPI Owl Relay for Life Team hosts the games annually. \u00a0Attendees could support a good cause all by watching basketball, eating food and spending time with family and friends. There were many opportunities for spectators to contribute to the ACS. A variety of food, such as walking tacos, cupcakes and more were on sale Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of people there made the atmosphere of the game so much more exciting to be at. I really like the idea of the Think Pink games because breast cancer runs in my family and currently my grandma has breast cancer. \u00a0So just knowing that people donated so much money for the research meant a lot to me,\u201d sophomore Alexis Alcott said.<\/p>\n

People also brought their loose change to \u201cfeed the jug.\u201d Raffle tickets and 50\/50 tickets were also on sale during the games. Prizes were given away during halftime of the women\u2019s game. \u00a0Faculty members won baskets and a homemade UMPI sign.\u00a0 The winner of the 50\/50 raffle was UMPI\u2019s own director of community and media relations, Rachel Rice. \u00a0She in turn donated her winnings to the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the idea of having the Think Pink games is a good idea because we do have breast cancer survivors that are affiliated with UMPI somehow. \u00a0And I think that is something that we can honor them with by raising awareness. Having something like this also gets the students, staff and community to team together and support those who have been affected,\u201d sophomore Mackenzie Lee said.<\/p>\n

At the end of the night, faculty and staff announced that the games raised over $500 in proceeds, which will all be donated to the ACS. Although both men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams lost, much more was won that night.<\/p>\n

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The University of Maine at Presque Isle\u2019s 8th Annual Think Pink basketball games drew a huge crowd on Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the Wieden Gymnasium. Students, staff, faculty, community members and more attended the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games held against UMPI rival, the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Spectators and players wore shades […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8523,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}