Wesmen Events Calendar
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| Title: | 5th Annual Hoops From The Heart |
| Description: | Details on the 5th annual Hoops From The Heart have been set to showcase the best in Manitoba basketball in one big evening, all for the benefit of inner city kids and heart research at St Boniface Hospital! Tuesday June 4th at the University of Winnipeg Duckworth Centre is the night for this year’s 5th annual Hoops From The Heart event. Win a basketball signed by future Hall of Fame Los Angeles Lakers star Steve Nash! Win an official Toronto Raptors team jersey autographed by Andreas Bargnani! Win three training sessions for your entire team at Winnipeg’s Effectus Athlete Development Facility for elite athletes! Watch the best in Manitoban basketball played by our best men and women in two exciting games! Give inner city kids a chance to watch basketball, enjoy a free meal, receive a 2013 version of the Hoops From The Heart T shirt and walk home with their own basketball autographed by one of the players! Support heart research at St Boniface Hospital! Come to this year’s Hoops From The Heart event at the Duckworth Centre at the University of Winnipeg on Tuesday June 4th and you’ll have all of these opportunities!! It doesn’t get any better than that! The games are always high intensity and each year bring high flying dunks and fast paced action! This is our fifth big year of Hoops From The Heart. As usual, proceeds from the game go to help inner city kids and heart research at St Boniface Hospital. This year, we are also offering a lucky team the chance to win 3 training sessions at the Effectus Athlete Development training facility in Winnipeg! Coaches: Bring your team to the game and each member gets the opportunity to submit a ticket to win these training sessions for their team. The more players that come to the game, the more chances your team has to win! Costs just a tooney for students to attend the games and $5 for adults. At 6:00 pm a combined University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg men’s team will play off against an All Star team of Manitoba players who currently play for other College and University teams. In the past, we have had players representing the University of Saskatchewan, Fraser Valley U, Thompson Rivers University, University of Waterloo, Brandon University, University of Alberta, American Colleges, CMU and Red River College to name just a few playing against the established stars and latest recruits to the U of Manitoba and the U of Winnipeg. Following this game at 7:30 pm is another feature. A traditional high intensity match up between the University of Winnipeg Women’s team versus the University of Manitoba Women’s team. See the featured stars of these teams and the latest recruits from high school play their first real test together in a highly competitive and exciting game. All to benefit inner city kids through “Basketballs for Inner City Kids” and heart research at St Boniface Hospital. Help out inner city kids and contribute to heart saving research while at the same time enjoying the best basketball played in Manitoba. Once again, our goal is to promote basketball, help inner city kids out and make an impact on the leading cause of death today: heart disease. All in one fun evening! |
| When: | June 4, 2013, 6:00 PM |
| Category: | Duckworth Events |
