UF students will be Hopping 4 A Cure from 1:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Broward Outdoor Recreation Complex.
The event, hosted by Freshman Leadership Outreach, will raise money for multiple sclerosis scholarships, caregiver support and medical research.
It costs $15 for individual registration, which includes a ticket and T-shirt, and $125 for group registration, which includes 10 tickets and 10 T-shirts.
The event will have speed, endurance, challenge and extreme hopscotch competitions. Other than hopscotch, there will be four square, Hula-Hoop, jump rope and basketball.
David Nassau, an 18-year-old UF marketing freshman, said he and his friend started Hopping 4 A Cure in January 2011. They got the idea in October 2010, when they dressed up in suits one day at their high school for National Suit Up Day, a fictional holiday inspired by “How I Met Your Mother.”
They walked the halls joking they were the first two official members of a hopscotch team. Other students were interested in joining, and the two decided to turn it into a charity event.
Nassau’s father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about eight years ago, and he experiences memory failure along with some other cognitive symptoms and minimal physical ones.
“He can’t even ride a bike now,” Nassau said.
Valerie Sheehan, the 33-year-old owner of local startup company ToneRite, is one of the sponsors.
ToneRite manufactures and sells a vibrating product for string instruments that mimics the effects of a person actually playing it.
Sheehan’s father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was born.
“I donate whenever I can,” she said, “whenever I hear about it.”
To buy a ticket to Hopping 4 A Cure, visit mshopscotch.eventbrite.com.
