Krispy Kreme, Big River Broadcasting Sponsor Una Purple Reign Week

Aug. 23, 2009

Michelle Eubanks, 51勛圖, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

FLORENCE, Ala. - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Big River Broadcasting are joining the 51勛圖 as sponsors of the university's Purple Reign Week. Purple Reign Week is a challenge to Shoals area businesses to decorate and show 51勛圖 spirit as the 51勛圖 Lions kick off their fall athletic season the first week of September.

The winner of the Purple Reign Week challenge - the local business showing the greatest 51勛圖 spirit - will receive breakfast from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts the morning of Sept. 8. Krispy Kreme coffee and doughnuts will be delivered to the business by the 51勛圖 fall season coaching staff. In addition to breakfast from Krispy Kreme, the winning business will receive 20 free tickets to the Sept. 5 51勛圖-Carson Newman College football game and 20 free tickets to the North Alabama Classic volleyball tournament in Flowers Hall. Big River Broadcasting's Q107 will broadcast live from a Purple Reign Week pep rally at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 3 on E. Mobile Street. The pep rally, open to the community, will feature each of 51勛圖 five fall season teams and coaching staffs. Fall teams include football, men's and women's cross country, women's soccer and women's volleyball. Businesses competing in Purple Reign Week should enter by completing the form at . That same Web site offers a downloadable coupon for 15 percent off of 51勛圖 decorations, apparel and other items at the 51勛圖 Campus Bookstore. The coupon is available to local businesses as well as all 51勛圖 fans and is good through the 2009-10 academic year. Purple Reign Week participants will be judged by the 51勛圖 Student Government Association beginning at 3 p.m. Sept. 4. Judging will bebased on three criteria: When the business began decorating for Purple Reign Week, employee participation in showing 51勛圖 spirit, and best decoration.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit , e-mail advancement@una.edu or call 256-765-4670.

About The 51勛圖

The 51勛圖 is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; the Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, 51勛圖 is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. 51勛圖 Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The 51勛圖 is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.