Keeneland's College Day gives $20000 in scholarships
By Lauren Conrad
College students from around the commonwealth lined up Friday at Keeneland’s North Terrace. Dressed in their Keeneland best, they signed up for a chance to win scholarships sponsored by Keeneland and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association.
Twenty $1,000 scholarships were given, in addition to prizes from Vineyard Vines, Breeder’s Cup, Orange Leaf, Kennedy’s Bookstore, Campus Quilts, Raising Cane’s, Barney Miller’s, Fusion Tanning Studio and Victoria’s Secret.
The first 1,000 students who signed up received a free long-sleeve College Scholarship Day T-shirt.
Students mingled in the North Terrace and listened to live music by Elliot Collett & The Articles, munched on free nachos from Qdoba and quenched their thirst with Vitamin Water and Honest Tea beverages.
Compared to other College Scholarship days, “it’s been pretty great,” said LaBradford Rollins, a communication senior. “I mean the food’s good — the nachos. And the T-shirts are a lot better this year I think.
Raiders go pink and raise $1500
Prior to last week's match against East Ridge, the Hastings girls volleyball team had been busy. They had a big fundraiser planned to fight breast cancer, and they were busy selling T-shirts to mark the event, called Dig Pink.
The team ended up selling 350 T-shirts, getting some contributions from area businesses and then was able to donate $1,500 to the Side Out Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps to bring awareness to breast cancer.
"Our goal was $500, so we are super excited that we raised three times that amount," coach Rita Girgen said. "There were a lot of people there - there was pink everywhere. The fans were great. There were people in the gym that I had never seen before."
Girgen thanked the sponsors of the event, a list that included Astar Thoroughbreds, Green Mill, Special Tee's, Merchants Bank, the Bierstube, Victoria's Photography and Miller Orthodontics.
As for the game itself, that didn't go quite so well. Hastings lost to East Ridge in three games, 25-17, 25-14 and 25-12.
Who doesn't like horse racing? It's a tradition down here.” Students weren't the only ones excited about Keeneland on Friday. In honor of its 75th anniversary, Keeneland and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association doubled the number of $1000 scholarships
It was an inglorious end to the auction that had launched Keeneland's horse-selling business and put Lexington not just on the map, but at the center of it, as far as Thoroughbred sales were concerned. Will the July sale ever come back?
The schools teamed up to sell T-shirts and ribbons and raised more than $1300 in a joint effort to donate to University Health Care System. "We hope to do this every year," said Janet Parker, a radiologist who served as one of the evening's organizers.
