Win Tuition With Women’s Bball

By Landon Hommy

The NAIT women’s basketball team is giving away $2000 worth of tuition!

The Ooks Women’s Basketball Prize Book is available soon, the star attraction of which is the bonus packs, which will be drawn randomly at two of the four remaining home games.  The first is a semester’s tuition up to $2000 – paid for.  A Nest package, which includes two Oilers tickets, a Nest dinner-for-two and Ooks/Oilers apparel, is the other big-ticket item.

Nest coupons, campus discounts, more apparel, and gift cards are some of the other great prizes that are available to win.

I want to have the student body a little more involved in our athletics program,” says Head Coach Curtis Nelson.  “From a player’s perspective it’s great to play in front of a full gym, but I also think we’ve got a great product for student’s to get involved with.”

The price?  Cheap.  Nine bucks cheap (with your student ID of course).  For your parents/partner it’s $12.

Along with missing out on the game-night coupons, if you don’t go to the game you won’t be able to claim the big prize should they draw it.

As mentioned, the theme nights will continue.  Last month, the team kicked off their year with “Philipines Community Night,” a great promotional event that raised nearly $2500 for those affected by the typhoon that devastated the Philipines this fall.  The next week the ladies brought in professional boxers to take on fans in a Wii version of fisticuffs, with one lucky patron walking away with a PS2.

Future themes include Breast Cancer and DJ Hero night.

Samantha Lloyd, who helps MC the events, feels “It’s a great way to get more people out to the games.  We can get the entire NAIT population pumped up.”

The team already draws quite well, but Coach Nelson wants to sell it out, making NAIT the Canadian version of Duke’s Cameron Crazies. “Let’s see if we can pack the gym and make it a place that nobody wants to come in and play at,” he says.

The first chance to attend, with prize book in hand, will be January 8 when the Ooks host Concordia College.

For more information visit NAIT Athletics website at www.http://www.nait.ca/athletics/