 The University of Pikeville will be holding its third Bear the 99 5k run on March 5th. Tuesday we spoke with President of UPI alumni association Kay Hammond about the event. I'm so excited to announce about our race Bear the 99. It's the 5k race of course you can walk or you can run and it's going to be held here at UPI on March the 5th. Restoration will start at 8 a.m and of course we'll start the race then at 9 and you can register two different ways. I have it wrote down here but if you're going to register in person or before the race you would go to apttiming apttiming.com Bear the 99. At Pikeville Medical Center we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center where cancer can be defeated. Also included if runners choose they can run virtually as well. Hammond continues to say that funds from the 5k will go towards their many scholarship programs and afterward we spoke with students about what the scholarship program means to them. So these scholarships really do help for people that are farther away they allow us a chance to come here you know without UPI I wouldn't have a great job that I'm going to get when I graduate I wouldn't get to go to Washington DC and do the Washington Center seminar that Dr. Cade puts on here so these scholarships really do help allow us the opportunity to come to come farther away from home and you know just really get to meet meet good people meet good professors and continue playing you know the game we love which is baseball so these scholarships allowed me to come from Georgia all the way out here to UPI get a different environment from Atlanta which I'm used to so I'm very thankful that these scholarships have allowed me to come out here and pursue my dreams. To register you can visit UPI.edu keyword bear the 99 or call 606-794-5421. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Horgell.