Thanks for your interest in the Celebrity 8-Ball Shootout. For just one year, we are putting down the cue sticks to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The 2nd & 7 Foundation. On June 29, 2019, we are celebrating this milestone with a gala at the Schottenstein Center. We hope you will join us! Please click the link below for details. Don't worry, the Celebrity 8-Ball Shootout will be back in 2020!
A limited number of individual tickets will be sold for this event. They are available for purchase at www.secondandseven.com/8ball. Participating teams may invite up to 20 guests, whose names will be included on our guest list at the door.
Yes! You can visit our auction link through BidPal to bid on any of the items available from the comfort of home. Please email us at info@secondandseven.com and ask to be added to the 8-Ball Auction list.
Limited spaces will be available in the North Market parking lot. Plenty of parking is available in the garage on Vine Street and in the Columbus Convention Center parking garages.
Yes! Several North Market food vendors will remain open for our event. Watershed Distillery will provide specialty drinks and beer and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available.
This is a casual event. This time of year is usually pretty hot, so shorts are perfectly acceptable.
Yes! Guests will enjoy live music from favorite local band Off the Hook.
Mission: To promote reading by providing free books and positive role models to kids in need while encouraging young athletes of the community to pay it forward.
The 2nd & 7 Foundation was founded in 1999 by three former OSU football players – Luke Fickell, Ryan Miller and Mike Vrabel - who wanted to continue to give back to their community. Since 1999, The 2nd & 7 Foundation has given away over 100,000 books to kids in need all across the country. In the 2012-2013 school year alone, The 2nd & 7 Foundation visited over 160 schools and gave away over 17,000 books.
Tackling Illiteracy: The 'Tackling Illiteracy' reading program began in central Ohio and is now being implemented in communities all over the nation. As a part of this program, college or high school student-athletes visit 2nd graders in local elementary schools to read to them, talk about the importance of their education and give every child a free book to take home. The focus is on schools with high populations of students on free or reduced lunch plans or communities that need it the most. A donation of just $25 allows us to ship 120 books to a school anywhere in the country.
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