Can You ‘Stump the Schwab’

In late October, Phi Mu held their first annual sports trivia night at Powerhouse, hosted by ESPN’S Howie Schwab, benefitting Children’s Miracle Network.

Every fall and spring semester, Phi Mu holds a philanthropy event. This year’s philanthropy chair, Alex Clay, wanted a new, more fun way that involved the whole community.

Clay originally had the idea of a small sports trivia tied into their usual poker tournament. However after she mentioned the idea to a friend, it turned into a much bigger production.

I spoke to my big sister in the sorority who had an internship this summer with ESPN,” Clay said. “She said she would contact Howie for some trivia questions and when he heard the idea he offered to come down and do the whole event for us.”

The event was open to teams of four players and tickets were also available at the door just to watch. There were also tickets available to enter a $1000 cash prize reverse raffle.

Clay said for the first year of the event she was pleased with the turnout. There were many male students who teamed up for the event and the winning team went on to play ‘Stump the Schwab,’ based on Schwab’s show on ESPN.

“All my guy friends were excited about it and figured it would be a lot of fun and it was really cool to have Howie Schwabb in Oxford,” said Jonathan Dean, senior geological engineering major.

“We would like to continue doing this every year and reach a higher goal every year for these children,” Clay said. “Howie mentioned it to us while he was here and he would like to continue to come down and do it every year and make it bigger and better.”