The MC Pride won the recent PNW Pride Classic 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, which raised $2,000 for the Purdue University Northwest Dean of Students Gift Fund.
Members of the champion MC Pride were Ashanti Clark, Deandre Eckwood, Marquise Burks, Sheree Knight and Isaac Moore, all from Michigan City.
The Dean of Students Gift Fund helps defray expenses of such immediate student needs as a text book, a campus meal ticket and emergency housing. Dollars raised from the tournament also will help fund outreach efforts of the PNW Dean of Students Office to expand student awareness of specific services available on both campuses
Twenty teams comprised of PNW students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members, including the Michigan City Police Department, competed in the tournament, which took place in the James B. Dworkin Student Services and Activities Complex on PNW’s Westville Campus.
Event coordinator Erika Lubeznik, PNW manager of Alumni Affairs, expressed her pleasure with the tournament’s wide support, “This event was a huge success and is such a great way to get community members into our new Kesling Gymnasium on the Westville Campus.”
Event sponsors The event sponsors were Purdue Northwest Alumni Organization; McDonalds of La Porte County; Ideas in Motion Media of Valparaiso; Restaurant Management Company of Portage; Matey’s Bar and Restaurant; Harbour Trust & Investment Management; Applegate and Company CPAs; Horizon Bank; and Reprographic Arts, all of Michigan City.
Purdue University Northwest Purdue University Northwest (PNW), a comprehensive regional university within the Purdue University system, has two Northwest Indiana campuses in Hammond and Westville. With more than 15,000 students enrolled last fall and nearly 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Purdue Northwest is Indiana’s fifth largest public university. For more information about PNW, visit our website at www.pnw.edu.
