No one – not organizers, nor sponsors or participants – was surprised by the cold weather during Homecoming 2015.
After all, festivities were scheduled smack dab in the middle of winter, Feb. 23-28.
But no one anticipated just how cold it did get on the night of the Nearly Naked Run, an annual philanthropic event hosted by the WSUAA's student alumni group, Shockers Forever.
So how cold was it? Cold enough to have organizers make the decision to postpone the event until April 23, when WSU students shed (most of) their clothes – as contributions to the Salvation Army's efforts to help the homeless – and took off nearly naked on a campus run.
Lara Brockway and Jeff Sherman were the fleetest Shocker runners in the women's and men's categories, respectively.
After crossing the finish line, Nearly Naked Run participants refueled at the NNR's Pancake Feed inside the Rhatigan Student Center.