More than 300 students gathered on Dallas Hall Lawn Tuesday night to participate in One28’s annual Snowball Fight.

The fight began at 8 p.m. with more than 5,000 snowballs from Bahama Bucks, a shaved ice company in North Dallas.

“This our fifth snowball fight,” said Jim Barnett, campus minister at Preston Road Church of Christ, who partners with Watermark Church for the event. “It’s definitely a fun thing to do when it’s 95-degrees outside, especially for those kids from California.”

Junior Tara Kezic, a native Californian, loved participating in the event for the first time.

“My friends told me about the event in my dorm,” Kezic said. “It’s really fun to try to hit other people with the snowballs.”

Other students, like senior Alex Hibbard, has participated in the event for years.

“This is my fourth and final year at the snowball fight,” Hibbard said. “This is something that One28 does an awesome job putting this on.”

The event is organized by Adam Tarnou, campus minister at Watermark Church. Upperclassmen involved in One28 also arrived early to help set up the event and meet first-years.

Each student was fitted with protective eyewear and a commemorative One28 T-shirt before they were split into teams. The game consisted of several four-minute fights and the team with the most players left on the field won.

“We lost our first game and then we got reinforcements,” Hibbard said.

Barnett sees the event as a way to welcome students, especially first-years, back to SMU’s campus.

“It’s something fun for them to do and come out and meet people,” he said.

Those involved in One28 encouraged students to come to their first meeting tomorrow night, where they will be raffling out an Apple Watch and gift cards to restaurants and stores around campus.