Best of THON 2015: Crazy Hats

A vibrant array of colors and lights fills the Bryce Jordan Center as THON 2015 members dance through the night. With an animated crowd comes a crazy colorful wardrobe. Valley hit the floor to find the best hats of THON.

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Junior Jack Holmes wears a fuzzy pink hat with his THON organization Atlas, a tradition inspired by one of the group’s THON children.

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Sophomore Heather Thomas dances for the THON organization Tetra wearing a hand-designed cap. “I wanted as many colors as I could,” she says.

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Freshman Samantha Glancey, dancing for Penn State York campus, wears a bright pink hat with bunny ears inspired by her favorite television show.

 

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Senior member of Science LionPride Zach Dawson sports a cap with the FTK logo front and center. His Dancer Relations committee member made it for him, he says.

 

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Senior Thomas Stitt, dancing for Cross Country, wears a red cap with a fish through the center. “It makes people smile,” he says.

 

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Senior Alex Greenawalt dances for the American Society of Civil Engineers wearing a pizza hat. When asked why a pizza hat, he says “Why not a pizza hat?”

 

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Third-year law student Georgina Buckley wears a bear hat. She says she received the hat as a Christmas gift from her brother when he was serving in Iraq. “I wanted him to come home (for Christmas) instead,” she says.

 

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Delta Gamma sisters Sami Steich and Teresa Ricotta and Sigma Pi brother Nick Danforth wear multi-colored caps.