ZTA Big Man on Campus
October 22nd, 2021
ZTA sisters and Big Man contestants pose for a photo on the pink carpet!
Co-hosts of Big Man Katherine Desrosiers and Ana Gansz.
Lenny Brogen showed off his vocal and guitar skills with a mashup performance of songs that all included the same few chords such as “Wagon Wheel” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
Zeta Tau Alpha hosted their annual “Big Man on Campus,” in person for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday, October 22nd at 7:30 p.m. in Decker Theatre. Tickets for the event were $5 and all money went directly towards the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation, which supports scholarships, education programming, and leadership development in the fight against breast cancer. The event was hosted by ZTA sisters seniors Katherine Desrosiers and Ana Gansz, and included 10 male contestants: sophomores Rodger Ecker and John DeSoto, juniors Alex Wilsey, Noah Vargas, Dylan Snow, Gage Mandrell, and Jastin Garcia-Mendoza, and seniors Bryce Robertson, Lenny Brogen, and Nate Braddock. There were five different awards to be given out to the contestants, Best Leg Up, Mr. Think-Pink, the Golden Buzzer Award, Best Back Story, and the coveted Big Man on Campus. Bryce Robertson took home Best Leg-Up and Dylan Snow nabbed Mr. Think-Pink. The Golden Buzzer award was given to Nate Braddock by Director of Student Engagement Antoine Jordan ’12 for his lip sync and dance performance to Shaina Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” Lenny Brogen won Best Backstory, thanks to his heartwarming reason for wanting to be a part of Big Man on Campus; to help support his cousin who suffers from breast cancer. ZTA’s 2021 Big Man on Campus was awarded to Noah Vargas who sang a parody of Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” about ZTA and breast cancer awareness and who made the crowd laugh with his comedic introduction video of his training process for the show.
Gage Mandrell delighted the audience when he started with an Irish dance number to Ed Sheeran’s “Galway Girl,” before ripping off his sweater, putting on a pair of fake glasses and transitioning into the famous sequence dance from the popular early 2000’s film “Napoleon Dynamite.”
Coverage by Emma Russell ‘23