{"id":164959,"date":"2025-08-21T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164959\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:58:11","slug":"uncw-womens-basketball-to-host-inaugural-dee-dee-toon-rivers-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164959\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCW Women’s Basketball to host inaugural Dee Dee Toon Rivers Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"Toon(Photo: UNCW)<\/p>\n

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WWAY) \u2014 College basketball season is still a ways down the road, but the UNCW women will soon host an event to honor one of their own.<\/p>\n

The first ever Dee Dee Toon Rivers Basketball Luncheon will be held October 7 at the Wilmington Convention Center, running from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Toon Rivers played for the Seahawks in the late 90\u2019s, but passed away earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Head Coach Nicole Woods says the goal is to raise $50,000 for the program\u2019s support fund. The event is free, but guests are asked to contact the university in advance if they plan to attend.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to learn more on how to book a reservation.<\/p>\n

\"Toon<\/a><\/p>\n

(Photo: UNCW)<\/p>\n

Woods is entering just her second year at the helm, but is aware just how much Toon Rivers meant to the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cDee Dee was loved by everybody,\u201d Woods said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I realized just how much she was loved until she was gone. She was a two sport athlete here at UNCW with women\u2019s basketball as well as track and field. We just wanted to be able to honor her in that way to be able to name this event after her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The luncheon\u2019s guest speaker will be Toon Rivers\u2019 daughter, Ashley graduate and WNBA player Saniya Rivers.<\/p>\n

The younger Rivers was drafted by the Connecticut Sun in April with her mother in attendance.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo: UNCW) WILMINGTON, N.C. (WWAY) \u2014 College basketball season is still a ways down the road, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,8199,2087,62,95032,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-164959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-saniya-rivers","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uncw","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115069236306998876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}