Big Blue Family VIDEO: Couple Celebrates UK's DanceBlue for Many Reasons
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2015) — It’s easy to hear, see and feel the love when you attend DanceBlue at the University of Kentucky.
The 24-hour no sitting, no sleeping dance marathon is the culmination of a year’s worth of fundraising efforts to support the DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic through the Golden Matrix Fund. Earlier this month, students celebrated raising $1,615,057.18 at the 10th annual event.
As hundreds of students screamed, clapped and cried tears of joy over the feat, newlyweds Erin Priddy and Joey Wright watched from the sidelines at Memorial Coliseum. Just a few years ago, they were the students on stage announcing the total amount of funds raised at the big reveal.
Returning to campus to witness the jubilation brings back a lot of special memories for Erin, now a medical resident, and Joey, a lawyer, who both currently live in Louisville. The couple originally met at UK because of their participation in DanceBlue.
Watch the video above to discover how DanceBlue brought them together and why the impact this program made on them as college students continues to motivate them to return year after year to celebrate this 10-year-old tradition at the University of Kentucky.
This video feature is part of a special series produced by UKNow focusing on families who help make up the University of Kentucky community. There are many couples, brothers and sisters, mothers and sons and fathers and daughters who serve at UK in various fields. The idea is to show how UK is part of so many families’ lives and how so many families are focused on helping the university succeed each and everyday.
Since the "Big Blue Family" series is now a monthly feature on UKNow, we invite you to submit future ideas. If you know of a family who you think should be featured, please email us. Who knows? We might just choose your suggestion for our next feature!
VIDEO CONTACTS: Amy Jones-Timoney, 859-257-2940, amy.jones2@uky.edu or Kody Kiser, 859-257-5282, kody.kiser@uky.edu