Monday night at 7:30 in Reynolds Coliseum, the annual Athletes With Talent Charity Show featured members of several University sports teams performing various talents, from a scantily-clad Thriller dance to synchronized “swimming” to a cello solo.

Jana Angel, a junior in international studies and coordinator of this year’s talent show, said all proceeds from the event will benefit Kids Café, a program designed to support children who do not get enough to eat every day.

“Kids Café is an after-school program that provides meals and snacks for children who don’t have those opportunities at home,” Angel said.

“Actually, recently their funding has gone down and they’ve only been able to provide snacks and not full meals, so we’re hoping that our contribution can help them push funding back to providing full meals for those children that are in need.”

Angel said she is not sure what the proceeds for this year will be since the location of the event changed from last year, when the show was held to a sold-out crowd in Witherspoon Student Cinema.

“We absorbed all the finances for the show so 100 percent of the proceeds from all the sales will go straight to Kids Café,” Angel said.

As part of the women’s volleyball team, Angel said she was proud of freshmen Kelly Burns and Sarah Griggs, who stepped up and came up with their team’s idea of synchronized swimming – without the water.

“We all got together and choreographed it, and I’m just really proud of the girls that they all decided to participate and put their egos away to raise money for children who really do need some help,” Angel said.

Taylor Pritchard, a junior in nutrition science and also a member of the women’s volleyball team, said the experience was fun, especially since the event helps those in need.

“It’s always fun to take part in something like this because no matter the outcome it’s for a good cause. So even if you fall, it’s fine,” Pritchard said.

Pritchard also said the event coordinators invites student athletes to bond as a team and to show students a different side of themselves.

“It’s always a good team-bonding thing because you get to spend time making up your [act] and just showing the audience that you’re more than football, volleyball, swimming, whatever.”

Angel said this year’s lack of a regular student body turnout was probably due to a deficient amount of publicity for the event.

“We were hoping that a lot more non-student-athletes would show up. Unfortunately this year, I don’t think there was nearly as much publicity about the event,” Angel said.

She also mentioned that aside from a venue change, the date of the event had also dramatically changed.

“Normally, [the Charity Show] is hosted in the fall, and this year we actually weren’t going to be able to do it until a month ago,” Angel said.

Still, Angel said the show went well and is optimistic about the proceeds for the charity.

“I think it went really well from the time and the planning that we had, everyone really jumped on board and bought in,” Angel said. “I think we’re going to have a great turnout and a great donation to Kids Café.”

The event featured nine acts with athletes from the basketball, volleyball, swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading and softball teams. The winner for Most Talented went to pianist Peter Domenig, a junior in biomedical engineering and a member of men’s cheerleading. The award for Most Entertaining went to the women’s softball team for their rendition of Extreme Makeover: Coaches Edition.