MoWest basketball hands out season ticket towels

By: Alexis Kuhnert

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- Ahead of Missouri Western State University's "Education Day" basketball games, the team toured area schools to promote the second annual event.

This not only allows the basketball players a break from finals, but also allows area students to get to know them.

MoWest, along with their two sponsors, Lehr Construction and Mofett Nursery and Garden Shop, made it possible for the children to have something to take home with them.

Ryan Menley, senior associate athletic director at MoWest, said they handed out t-shirts to students the year prior, but this year, they gave out 5,000 rally towels, which act as a season ticket to any and all MoWest games.

"We want to cultivate the next generation of Griffin fans," Menley said. "That's part of the reason we're doing this, although I do think that our student athletes get as much out of this as the elementary kids that come in, because it is, is an electric atmosphere."

Whichever section cheers the loudest at the games on Monday, Dec. 15 and Tuesday, Dec. 16, will have the opportunity to ring a bell should the Griffons secure a win.