The women’s basketball team will wear a blue patch embroidered with an image of a Palmetto tree and nine doves in honor of the victims of the Emanuel AME Chruch shooting.
College of Charleston Athletics will honor the Emanuel A.M.E. Church community during the men’s and women’s basketball home openers on Friday, Nov. 13 at TD Arena.
The women will play Houston in the first game of the doubleheader at 4 p.m., and the men will face South Carolina State at 7 p.m. Both teams will hold a moment of silence prior to tip-off in remembrance of the victims, survivors and members of the church.
Prior to the men’s game, Vanessa Thomas-Jackson, a member of the Emanuel AME Choir, will sing the National Anthem.
For the entire 2015-16 season, the women’s basketball team will wear on their jerseys a blue patch embroidered with an image of a Palmetto tree and nine doves, while the men’s team will host a silent auction featuring “We Are All Charleston” game-worn, numbered warm-up shirts on the concourse of TD Arena beginning at 4 p.m. during the women’s game. The silent auction will end at halftime of the men’s basketball game. All proceeds will benefit Emanuel AME Church Youth Groups.
