BOCA RATON BOWL ANNOUNCES CHERIBUNDI TART CHERRY AS THE NEW TITLE SPONSOR
BOCA RATON — ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, has announced Cheribundi Tart Cherry as the new title sponsor for the Boca Raton Bowl, the annual college football postseason game played in Boca Raton, Florida. Beginning with this year’s game, the bowl will now be known as the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. Cheribundi will serve as the title sponsor through the 2019 season.
Based in N.Y., Cheribundi produces tart cherry beverages that are all natural and 100 percent juice from U.S. grown cherries. Cheribundi’s mission is to make people’s lives easier by providing them with healthy, innovative tart cherry products that provide powerful health benefits.
The 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl will be played on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. ET at FAU Stadium on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and will be televised on ESPN. This will be the fourth edition of the annual bowl game with a full slate of bowl festivities starting with team arrivals on Friday, Dec. 15.
“We are thrilled to welcome Cheribundi Tart Cherry as our new title sponsor and believe this is an ideal fit for the bowl game and the surrounding community,” said Doug Mosley, executive director of the game. “Cheribundi is perfectly geared to the active, healthy lifestyles of the Boca Raton and Palm Beach County communities. We look forward to working together to further develop the bowl game and provide a memorable experience for the student-athlete.”
“Cheribundi Tart Cherry has been part of a training regimen for muscle rest and recovery to over 200 collegiate and professional sports teams for the past eight years,” said Steve Pear, CEO of Cheribundi. “Given Cheribundi’s deep history with athletes, the association with ESPN and sponsoring the newly named Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl is a natural fit.
For more information about the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl visit CheribundiTartCherryBocaRatonBowl.com.
ABOUT CHERIBUNDI
Cheribundi is a not-from-concentrate tart cherry juice made from a proprietary juicing process developed by scientists at Cornell University to yield peak antioxidant levels. 200 NCAA and professional sports teams, plus thousands of elite and amateur athletes, are using Cheribundi for faster muscle recovery, better sleep, and increased stamina. Teams that use Cheribundi include the New England Patriots, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Yankees, University of Alabama, University of Texas, Chicago Blackhawks, and the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.
Regular consumption of tart cherry juice is reported to reduce post-exercise muscle soreness and speed up recovery after exercise. Tart cherries also contain significant levels of melatonin that is believed to promote deeper, more restful sleep.
Cheribundi tart cherry juice products are available nationwide in grocery, natural, and specialty retailers, including Publix, Safeway, Kroger, Target, Wegmans, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, HEB, Meijer, Costco, Rite Aid, Food Lion, and online at Amazon.com.
For more information, visit Cheribundi.com. Or you can discover the benefits for yourself by taking the Cheribundi 7-Day Challenge.
ESPN Events
ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, owns and operates a large portfolio of 31 collegiate sporting events worldwide. The roster includes three Labor Day weekend college football games; FCS opening-weekend game; 13 college bowl games, 11 college basketball events and two college award shows, which accounts for approximately 300-plus hours of programming, reaches almost 64 million viewers and attracts over 700,000 attendees each year. With satellite offices in Albuquerque, Birmingham, Boca Raton, Boise, Dallas-Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Montgomery and St. Petersburg, ESPN Events builds relationships with conferences, schools and local communities, as well as providing unique experiences for teams and fans.
ESPN Events also manages the Big 12 Corporate Partner Program.
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