UNB Womenâ??s Basketball Breakfast â?? 5th Edition
So much goes into a season when you’re running the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds Women’s Basketball Team. Training camp. Recruiting. Practices. Games. It’s almost a 24-7 scenario when you’re the head coach.
Well, despite the intense work that goes into running one of the top Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball programs, there is also an awful lot of behind-the-scenes action to ensure long-term community involvement and commitment. Look no further than the popular fundraising entity known as the Breakfast for Success.
The fifth annual breakfast basketball celebration of all things UNB Women’s Basketball and girl’s basketball in the community will be held April 21st at the Fredericton Inn.
Fans of the Breakfast certainly don’t mind getting together for the food, socializing and silent auction table from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. The silent auction table will be open for viewing at 6:30 a.m.
“The Breakfast keeps getting bigger and the scheduling and bringing everything together is a demanding project,” said UNB head coach Jeff Speedy. “So much goes into it that you’re always checking and double checking all the facets of the morning to ensure everyone goes away happy. There is a template to ensuring success, but you always want to build off each year and ensure we’re injecting new life into the project each spring. We have an amazing committee and they deserve all of the credit.”
The Breakfast For Success is a project handled by the Friends of the Varsity Reds Women’s Basketball Team. It is a dedicated crew of volunteers who handle all the groundwork for the program, which will feature all the members of the 2010-11 version of the VReds.
Through four years, the breakfast has raised over $54,000 to support UNB Women’s Basketball awards and scholarship programs. It is another opportunity to attract elite student-athletes from across Canada and retain New Brunswick athletes at UNB.
Individual tickets are $35 or a corporate table of eight is $250. There is an early bird draw with a deadline of Feb. 28th. Those purchasing tickets on or before that date will be entered to win two season tickets for the 2011-12 season at the sparkling new Richard Currie Center and a signed basketball from the 2010-2011 team.
Tickets will be on sale this coming weekend at the home games when the VReds battle St. FX Saturday at 6:00pm and Sunday at 2:00m. Special thanks to the Bliss Carmen and George Street Middle School Girl’s basketball teams who will be helping sell the tickets this weekend at the Pit.
If you are unable to make the event, but still want to support the program, there is an opportunity to help send a local middle or high school girls’ basketball team to this outstanding event.
For tickets call Linda Speedy at 453-7341 or e-mail lspeedy@kpmg.ca or Jeff Speedy at 447-3100 or jspeedy@unb.ca.