Bethel Uni­ver­sity Hosts An­nual Tip off Mad­ness Event

MISHAWAKA- Bethel Uni­ver­sity held its an­nual Tip Off Mad­ness event on Oct. 13 to cel­e­brate its up­com­ing bas­ket­ball sea­son. This pep rally event is held every year at the start of the bas­ket­ball sea­son to in­tro­duce the teams, get stu­dents ex­cited and en­cour­age them to go cheer on the teams. The event was put on by the Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties team in part­ner­ship with the men’s and wom­en’s bas­ket­ball teams, cheer team and the Bethel Ad­mis­sions Of­fice.  

This pep rally is not only for cur­rent Bethel stu­dents, but prospec­tive stu­dents were also in at­ten­dance as part of the GO2BU event or­ga­nized by Bethel’s ad­mis­sions staff.  

The Oak­wood ver­sus Shupe mat­tress race was part of the fes­tiv­i­ties again, and the Oak­wood boys won the race this year. Other ac­tiv­i­ties in­cluded a free throw con­test, a raf­fle draw­ing and a per­for­mance by the cheer­lead­ers.  

Ac­cord­ing to Al­li­son Nicholas, the stu­dent ac­tiv­i­ties co­or­di­na­tor, the Tip off Mad­ness event is de­signed to get stu­dents ex­cited about the ath­letic sea­son and school spirit. She hopes this event as well as other events like it will help to bridge the gap be­tween the ath­letes and non-ath­letes on Bethel’s cam­pus. The cam­pus ac­tivites team wants to high­light Bethel’s sports teams at the be­gin­ning of their sea­sons to in­crease school spirit among the stu­dents.