Halls Signature Events Partners With Coach Dawn Staley Launches Special Pre-Race Bridge Run Dinner

2022 Cooper River Bridge Run runners have a new way to fuel up before the big race while also helping children in need. This year Halls Signature Events, a sister property of Halls Chophouse, is launching Fuel Up Friday, a healthy, pre-race bridge run feast Friday, April 1 at Halls Signature Events, 5 Faber Street in downtown Charleston.

The Fuel Up Friday event supports Innersole, a non-profit founded by USC’s Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley which helps provide new athletic shoes for children in need.

“We’re excited to partner with Coach Staley to help children in our community while also providing 2022 bridge runners with a fun, festive feast to fuel up before the big race,” said Tommy Hall, owner/CEO of Hall Management Group. “This event is the perfect fusion of food and philanthropy!”

Halls chefs are planning a healthy, carb-conscious menu including grass fed beef tips, bison tenderloin, vegetable quinoa pilaf, and wild salmon risotto with a mixologist whipping up delicious smoothies, seasonal fruit cocktails and mocktails. You’ll be sent home with a house made energy bar to enjoy on race day.

Fuel Up Friday tickets are $45 for adults and $20 for kids 12 and under. To sweeten the deal, if you bring a new pair of athletic shoes for kids ages K-through-12 or donate more than $25 to Innersole, at this link, you’ll be entered to win a basketball signed by Coach Staley and a $150 gift card to any of the Hall Management group restaurants across South Carolina. You do not have to be present to win.

“As an athlete, I know how crucial it is to eat properly before any sporting event. I also know a good pair of athletic shoes is a total game changer for a child,” said Coach Dawn Staley. “Fuel Up Friday is food for the body and sole. Our Innersole team is thrilled to be a part of this first ever event.”
Catapulting South Carolina into the national spotlight, Dawn Staley has made the Gamecocks a mainstay in the battle for SEC and national championships. Under her leadership, the Gamecocks have reached many firsts – National Championship, NCAA Final Fours, No. 1 rankings, SEC regular-season and tournament titles, SEC Player of the Year, National Player of the Year, WNBA No. 1 Draft pick and No. 1 recruiting classes – to name the most notable.
While her coaching career is in full bloom, Staley is still recognized for her body of work as a one of the most decorated participants in United States women’s basketball history. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame solidified that legacy with her enshrinement as part of the Class of 2013. The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia established the Dawn Staley Award recognizing the nation’s top guard in women’s Division I basketball in 2013 as well. Staley was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2012 and was one of the final nominees for induction to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame the same year. In the summer of 2011, the WNBA recognized her as one of the league’s “Top 15,” honoring the most influential players in the league’s history.
Also a force in USA Basketball, Staley was named the U.S. Women’s National Team head coach for 2017-21, leading the U.S. to 2018 FIBA World Cup gold to earn USAB National Coach of the Year honors that year, adding gold medals at the 2019 and 2021 FIBA AmeriCups and stretching the U.S. Olympic gold medal streak to seven straight at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Prior to that appointment, Staley led three other U.S. teams to gold medals – 2015 FIBA U19 World Championships, 2014 FIBA U18 Americas Championship, 2007 Pan Am Games – and served as an assistant on the Senior National Team 2006-08 and again 2014-16, during which the U.S. claimed gold in the 2014 FIBA World Championship and the 2008 and 2016 Olympics.