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WKU Women's Basketball Team Looks to Continue Perfect C-USA Record During "Spread the Red" Game

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The WKU Lady Hilltopper basketball team has been playing a prominent role in area elementary and middle schools over the past several weeks. Thursday’s game between the WKU Lady  Toppers and Florida Atlantic is the fourth annual “Spread the Red Education Game”, and will be attended by all third-through-eighth graders in Bowling Green city schools, and seventh grade students from Warren County public schools.

For the past month, teachers have been incorporating statistics and biographical information about the players and teams into math, geography, reading, and history lessons. 

“And  bigger picture, there’s a learning component in terms of the career opportunities, and just the overall experience of being able to come up to the university and hopefully inspire our kids to want to aim high,” said Warren County Schools Superintendent Rob Clayton.

Bowling Green Schools Superintendent Joe Tinius embraces any opportunity to get young students on a college campus. He says it will be many students’ first time attending an event at WKU.

“Every year we say it shouldn’t surprise us, but it does. When you think that (WKU) is right here in the middle of town—but that’s the case for a lot of our kids.”

The WKU Lady Toppers enter the Florida Atlantic game with an overall record of 14-2, and a 3-0 record in league play. All of the team’s remaining 14 regular season games are against Conference USA teams.

Kevin is the News Director at WKU Public Radio. He has been with the station since 1999, and was previously the Assistant News Director, and also served as local host of Morning Edition.
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