(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Melissa Graves, sophomore in kinesiology, takes part in an ice cream eating contest at the K-State Relay for Life in Memorial Stadium on Friday, April 12, 2013. She and her friends participated in honor of a friend's mother who was lost to cancer last year.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Cards with inspirational words lined Memorial Stadium during the K-State Relay for Life on Friday, April 12, 2013.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Paper bags, weighed down by donated cans of food and illuminated by LED candles bearing messages written to loved ones lost to cancer line the track at Memorial Stadium during the K-State Relay for Life on Friday, April 12, 2013.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Alyssa Lally, junior in journalism, was disqualified from the egg toss when her egg broke as she caught it. Lally, participated in the K-State Relay for Life in Memorial Stadium on Friday, April 12, 2013, with her brothers and sisters from Phi Sigma Pi co-ed fraternity.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Tate Mattingly, sophomore in biology, pies her soroity sister, Jennifer Palmer, freshman in early childhood education during the K-State Relay for Life in Memorial Stadium on Friday, April 12, 2013. Pariticpants in the Relay for Life paid to pie professor JR Love of leadership studies and the students of Leadership 212, the money went to the American Cancer Assocation.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) The K-State Tab Dance Ensemble performs for participants of the Relay for Life in Friday, April 12, 2013 in Memorial Stadium.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Sisters of Alpha Delta Pi keep warm by huddling under blan- kets on the side of the track in Memorial Stadium at the K-State Relay for Life on Friday. The event raised $34,280.53, and 42 teams with 426 people total participated in this year’s event.

(Photo by Hannah Hunsinger | Collegian) Participants in K-State Relay for Life keep walking the track while others gather in the center of Memorial Stadium for an egg toss.