The fourth annual “Jock ‘n Roll” showed off the skills of Eastern’s sports teams to raise money for veterans Wednesday night.

Sports teams battled one another in a talent contest and the coaches judged the teams.

The judges of the teams were Tom Akers, coach of the cross country and track team; Holly LeMier, coach of the Pink Panthers and Angie Nicholson, coach of the softball team.

Jason Cherry, coach of the women’s soccer team. Jacqueline Michaliski, coach of the swimming team and Raymundo Gonzalez, coach of the women’s soccer team were also judges for this event.

The teams involved were women’s swimming, men’s and women’s track, baseball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, Pink Panthers and men’s tennis and golf.

There were eight acts total; the first two, swimming and men’s and women’s track, made music videos for their talent.

The third was baseball with one of their players playing the song “The Scientist” on the piano.

Men’s soccer performed Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off” in a ‘80s workout fashion but were cut short because of their intense workout session.

Women’s soccer reenacted “American Idol” with their own twist for the fifth act and softball performed a skit based off Jimmy Fallon’s talk show called “EW.”

For act seven the Pink Panthers danced to the song “Turn the night up” and the final act was a musical rendition they called “overcoming adversity,” where they played many different instruments and rapped, displaying different music styles.

The winners of the talent show were the softball team.

This was their third win for the third year in a row for the “Jock ‘n Roll” event.

Andrea Roberts, a freshman kinesiology major, who is a part of the softball team, said the team organized their skit Monday.

“We started preparing Monday night and we were thinking on what we wanted to do for about two in a half hours,” Roberts said.

Once they planned out their skit they took 45 minutes rehearsing it.

The four veterans who the sports teams did this talent show for are Derrick Jackson, a senior communication studies major and National Guard veteran; Jacob Lachapelle, a senior accounting major and part of the U.S. Marine Corps.; Peter Santoro, a junior physics and pre-engineering major and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.; and Tim Worman, a junior sociology, criminology and psychology major and U.S. Army veteran.

The proceeds from the event will be used to send the veterans to the OVC basketball tournament in Nashville from March 4 to 7.

Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhite2@eiu.edu.