Wrestling duo Head Coach Ethan Kyle and Eric Casula won the first-ever SHS Cornhole Tournament during Pink Out Week. 

Also a member of FCCLA, Casula helped create the idea of hosting a cornhole tournament for Pink Out Week. Casula said pink out means a lot to him and he enjoys raising money to find a cure for cancer. 

“I enjoyed winning with Coach Kyle, we’re a dynamic duo,” he said. 

It’s not all about winning cornhole tournaments, though; it’s also about winning the fight against cancer. Coach Kyle was thrilled to have won gift cards to a couple of restaurants, but he was more exhilarated for the cause.

“It’s a way to get our school involved in something that if it hasn’t impacted you yet it will impact you, it’s just this big bad thing that looms over us and there’s something we can do about it,” Kyle said. “We don’t need to be victims, we can help and do some good with it.” 

Pink Out Week at SHS started in 2009 when OSSAA challenged all the football teams to do a win-win week, which was a game to honor breast cancer, according to teacher and FCCLA sponsor Ms. Jody Webber.

The principal at the time, Mr. Uwe Gordon, challenged the Family and Consumer Sciences teacher at the time to see if FCCLA could coordinate that and make it a Pink Out game, and of course, in the end, they said yes.

That was the beginning of how FCCLA got involved here in Stillwater, and eventually that turned into Pink Out Week as it is known today. 

The money raised during Pink Out Week goes to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. At OMRF, they research not just a cure for breast cancer but for all cancers. 

When Webber was asked one thing she wants to see change next year during the cornhole pinkout tournament she said, “the only thing I want to see change is more teams.”