Sunday is Take A Kid to the Game Day

Sunday is Take A Kid to the Game DaySunday is Take A Kid to the Game Day


Sunday is Take A Kid to the Game Day

Contact: Kelli Hinton

1/19/2005



CINCINNATI, Ohio ? The University of Cincinnati is inviting all area children to attend its upcoming women?s basketball game on Sunday, Jan. 23, against TCU. Youth will have an opportunity to experience the college game-day atmosphere when UC hosts NCAA? Basketball?s 10th Anniversary Take A Kid to the Game? (TAKG) day celebration. Youth, ages 12 and younger, will receive a free ticket with the purchase of a full-priced adult ticket, to watch the Bearcats take on TCU at Fifth Third Arena at 1 p.m.

UC is one of more than 500 institutions across the nation that have come to participate in this campaign that is focused on attracting more of the nation?s youth to college games. The Take A Kid to the Game? program is celebrating it?s10th year in the promotion of NCAA? athletics.

Tickets for this special 10th anniversary game can be purchased at the UC Ticket Office at One Edwards Center. For more information, call 513-556-CATS.

NCAA Basketball? is a national sponsor of the Take A Kid to the Game program. To learn about other NCAA Basketball initiatives, please visit www.ncaa.org/bbp/basketball_marketing/index.html for more information.

TAKG is a grassroots marketing campaign created by Host Communications, Inc. to encourage alumni and fans to take their kids out to stadiums and arenas to experience intercollegiate athletics. HOST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bull Run Corporation, is a sports, lifestyle and affinity group marketing and management company based in Lexington, KY.