Krispy Kreme, Big River Broadcasting Sponsor Una Purple Reign Week
Aug. 23, 2009
Michelle Eubanks, ĢƵ, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
FLORENCE, Ala. - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Big River Broadcasting are joining the ĢƵ as sponsors of the university's Purple Reign Week. Purple Reign Week is a challenge to Shoals area businesses to decorate and show ĢƵ spirit as the ĢƵ Lions kick off their fall athletic season the first week of September.
The winner of the Purple Reign Week challenge - the local business showing the greatest ĢƵ spirit - will receive breakfast from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts the morning of Sept. 8. Krispy Kreme coffee and doughnuts will be delivered to the business by the ĢƵ fall season coaching staff. In addition to breakfast from Krispy Kreme, the winning business will receive 20 free tickets to the Sept. 5 ĢƵ-Carson Newman College football game and 20 free tickets to the North Alabama Classic volleyball tournament in Flowers Hall. Big River Broadcasting's Q107 will broadcast live from a Purple Reign Week pep rally at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 3 on E. Mobile Street. The pep rally, open to the community, will feature each of ĢƵ's five fall season teams and coaching staffs. Fall teams include football, men's and women's cross country, women's soccer and women's volleyball. Businesses competing in Purple Reign Week should enter by completing the form at . That same Web site offers a downloadable coupon for 15 percent off of ĢƵ decorations, apparel and other items at the ĢƵ Campus Bookstore. The coupon is available to local businesses as well as all ĢƵ fans and is good through the 2009-10 academic year. Purple Reign Week participants will be judged by the ĢƵ Student Government Association beginning at 3 p.m. Sept. 4. Judging will bebased on three criteria: When the business began decorating for Purple Reign Week, employee participation in showing ĢƵ spirit, and best decoration.FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit , e-mail advancement@una.edu or call 256-765-4670.
About The ĢƵ
The ĢƵ is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; the Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, ĢƵ is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. ĢƵ Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I and United Athletic conference. The ĢƵ is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/.