Olivia Skari
On Feb. 13, fifteen college students from the Tri-College system played Snow Football to raise money for diabetes
Snow football fundraiser raises money for diabetes
The Lamda Delta Sigma sorority sponsored a snow football event Feb. 13 at the Jake Christiansen Stadium.
Juniors Lauren Bostrom and Madison Sorvig, members of LDS, were in charge of this event, which was started four years ago. The event aims to raise awareness for the American Diabetes Association, and all proceeds go towards that organization.
LDS has had members who’ve had diabetes, specifically within the last four years since this event was started, so the sorority found it important to continue with this event and the awareness.
“If it’s important to one sister, it’s important to all,” Sorvig said.
Usually LDS requests $100 per team to be play snow football, but due to a lack of participation they have lowered that price to $7 per player. Sorvig said last year not many people from Concordia’s campus got involved. There was more support from the fraternities and sororities from NDSU and MSUM instead, and this year yielded the same result.
This year was not the best turnout they’d had in the past, according to Bostrom. There were 15 participants, all of which were from LDS or the NDSU Farmhouse Fraternity, and $100 was raised. Bostrom said she thinks the lack of participation this year may have been due to the timing between midterms and Valentine’s Day.
Senior Lyndsi Tufte, LDS president, thought the event was a lot of fun as well as a lot of work.
“It took brave souls to try running through that much snow,” she said.
Tufte was on the winning team along with NDSU senior Lance Fulton, Concordia senior Megan Knox and two other men from the Farmhouse Fraternity at NDSU.
Fulton has had the same team from year to year for this event. He said the event was well-planned and fun, but it was unfortunate that the turnout was down from recent years.
“I’m a very competitive person, so winning was a thrill,” he said, “though this event was more for the cause than winning.”
Sorvig enjoys being part of this event since it’s for a good cause.
“I like to run around and be with people for a good cause,” she said. “And it’s more fun when it’s for something good.”
Bostrom likes to see other people involved with this event as well.
“This is my second year doing it and I never thought diabetes was such a big deal, but I learned it’s the seventh leading cause of death,” she said, “so it’s important to support that research.
