Westfield State basketball coaches Rich Sutter and Andrea Bertini take the Cold Water Challenge.
WESTFIELD – Westfield State University women’s basketball head coach Andrea Bertini and men’s basktball head coach Rich Sutter beat the summer heat by participating in the new Kay Yow Cancer Fund program called “Chillin4Charity”.
The “Cold Water Challenge” initiative was started by the coaching staff at the University of Arizona several weeks ago and has spread nationwide as apart of a new coast-to-coast fundraising initiative in an effort to raise money to help support breast cancer awareness and research.
In the initiative, college assistant basketball coaches challenged to being doused with a bucket of water must donate $25 to the Kay Yow Fund and those who do not accept the challenge must pay $100 to charity. For head coaches the amounts are $50 for completing the task and $250 if declined.
Bertini was called out by Worcester State assistant coach Katy Howard. Before Westfield State basketball players dumped buckets of ice cold water on Bertini and Sutter, Bertini issued challenges to Eastern Connecticut women’s coach Denise Bierly, MCLA women’s coach Holly McGovern and Salem State men’s coach Chris Harvey.
