Ball State Daily: "The Ballers become nation's first ever collegiate faculty, staff dance team"
From the Ball State Daily - Muncie, Indiana
By: Evan Weaver
For the first time on any college campus in the United States, a faculty and staff dance team has been created. Ball State and their athletics department have worked together to create “The Ballers”.
After seeing the grandparents on the granny dance teams at professional sporting events having a good time Marketing and Fan Engagement Assistant, Derrick Endres, got the idea for the staff- and faculty-based dance team
“I thought it would be kind of funny to see if we could do it with faculty and staff members,” Endres said. “It came to me one night and I texted [Shawn Sullivan, Associate Athletics Director of Marketing and Fan Engagement] at 4:30 a.m. and he wanted to talk about it more.”