In the first year ever, Texas Zeta hosted the Z Factor. This event highlighted the talent of college students around the UT campus, while raising money for a great cause. Our philanthropy, Breast Cancer Awareness and Education, touches many hearts and heals many of them too. It is a privilege to be a Texas Zeta and to be able to support a cause that is helping so many women and men fight breast cancer. This year, our philanthropy chair, Ashton Groves hosted the phenomenal talent show to raise money for our philanthropy. This idea could not have been anymore exciting as it joins together college students displaying their talent for a great cause, and let's be honest, what’s more catchy than the Z Factor?
Z Factor was hosted this past Sunday and on Sunday alone, Texas Zeta raised $15,000 for our philanthropy! How was Texas Zeta able to raise all of that money? Well, Z Factor included fifteen acts that varied from talents such as dancing to singing to even contortionism. In one dance act, our very own PC ’12 Lauren Moore self-choreographed a hip-hop routine and ended up winning the whole talent show! Participants displayed their acts and once their act was completed, girls went around passing bags to collect money and attendees were supposed to give money if they enjoyed the act. A participant of the Z Factor won the talent show by having the most money raised after their performance! The Z Factor could not have happened without all the tremendous amount of help from the Ashton Groves herself, the Z Factor committee, the Texas Zetas, and the University of Texas for allowing us to use a building on campus to host our talent show.
Z Factor was such a success and it seriously makes my heart flutter to just think that the $15,000 we raised just from this one event will go to helping women and men who are fighting an incurable disease, maybe breathe a little easier to know that maybe their medical bills are paid for or maybe a new researcher was given a grant to fund a lab to try and find the cure for cancer. Now, for the really huge thank you is to the performers themselves. Each and every one of them stood on that stage to display a talent they have in honor of raising money for our philanthropy. All the performers were incredible and many of the acts in Z Factor included some our very own Texas Zetas! We have talent, yes we do!
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| Matthew Ryan King lip syncing for his talent |
Highlights of the show included one of our very own, PC ’13 Kacey Adams. Her act was contortionism as she wound her body in a full circle as she did a backbend and crawled through her legs. It was absolutely incredible and astounding! Another highlight of the show was Kara Roberts, where she sang Walka Flaka’s song “No Hands”. It was hilarious as this rap song was portrayed through her incredible voice and the lovely tune of the talented guitar playing. Other affiliates of the greek community competed in the show as Sig Ep brothers, Blake and Lee Lueder performed “Ride” by Somo. The two put hilarious twist on the song, as vocals by Blake completely enthralled the audience but then Lee came in with the triangle as he danced around the stage and had an incredible surprise for the audience (you had to be there). Needless to say, he definitely engaged the audience and had us all dying of laughter. Another astounding performance was by Maddy Denault who actually just released her first album! Her act portrayed her amazing country twang with beautiful vocals and an original song written by her. Matthew Ryan King performed an even more unique talent where he never sang, but actually lip-synced the song perfectly. His act portrayed his amazing skill to use facial expression, perfect timing, and acting to convince the audience he was singing. It was hilarious and surprising as he most certainly looked like he was belting his heart out to Jennifer Hudson’s “And I Am Telling You". Last, but most certainly not least, was another one of our own PC ’13 Harper O’neill. Harper’s unbelievable vocals and musical talent stole the audience as she sang, “Put the Gun Down” by ZZ Ward. To be honest, I would kill to have her vocals because they are absolutely incredible.
A warm thank you to all of the performers and a huge round of applause to this incredible event, Z Factor. We hope to make this a tradition and Texas Zeta cannot be any more excited to host it again next year and hopefully beat the amount of money we raised this year!
ZLAM
Alexis Conley
PC'13
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| PC'12 Lauren Moore: The first ever winner of the Z-Factor! |
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