300 take the polar plunge at the Big House
Folks paid $75 each for the privilege of jumping into a pool of ice cold water this past weekend, raising nearly $130,000 for Specia Olympics Michigan. Excerpt: "With a raucous crowd shouting their support, more than 300 plungers — including five Special Olympians — leaped one by one from a wooden platform into one of two above-ground pools set up on the partially snow-covered football field for the U-M Polar Plunge. Plungers wore costumes ranging from basketball jerseys to bowling pins and superheroes. "Ahh, it's great. I loved it," Patty Carden, 52, a special-education teacher and coach at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, said as water dripped from her green St. Patrick's Day-themed jacket and hat. "Fantastic. You should try it."" Read and see more about the event here.
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