VIDEO: LIU Brooklyn Women's Basketball Cold Water Challenge

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The LIU Brooklyn women's basketball team took part in the Cold Water Challenge, and is asking that student-athletes and coaches from the Northeast Conference and beyond do the same in the name of charity.

Head coach Gail Striegler, senior Letava Whippy and junior Sophie Bhasin each completed the bone-chilling task. As the challenge goes, each coach and player that does the challenge then urges coaches and student-athletes from other schools to follow suit. For each coach that accepts the challenge, Striegler will donate $50 to the Kay Yow Foundation. If a coach does not respond, that coach is responsible to donate $100 to the Foundation.

Student-athletes that do not respond to the challenge will owe six hours of community service, while Whippy and Bhasin will be responsible for two hours each of community service for each student-athlete that does respond.

Striegler named Mount St. Mary's head coach Bryan Whitten, Ralph Ventre of the Northeast Conference and Hofstra head coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey as people she would like to see take the plunge, while Whippy and Bhasin have asked a trio of St. Francis Brooklyn student-athletes - Leah Fechko, Eilidh Simpson and Sarah Benedetti - as well as Sacred Heart's Gabrielle Washington to join the fun.

For rules of the Cold Water Challenge, which was started by the University of Arizona, see below:

RULES
-All parties have 48 hours from the release to answer the challenge
-Please use the hashtags:
#Chillin4Charity and #Play4Kay

Coaches
-Any coach that doesn't answer the challenge, owes the Kay Yow Foundation $100
-For each coach that answers the challenge, the original challenger will owe the Kay Yow Foundation $50

Players
-Any player that does not answer the challenge will owe six hours of community service
-For each player that does answer the challenge, each LIU player will owe two hours of community service

Kay Yow Donation Information
1. Make checks payable to: Kay Yow Cancer Fund and include the school and coach name in memo line.  The foundation is a 501c3 and any donation will receive a letter of acknowledgment that can be used for tax purposes.
2. Donate online at www.kayyow.com/donate and include in the comments section school and coach.
3. All donations will receive an acknowledgment letter that can be used for tax purposes.