Help Kings Island kick cancer. You will make an impact. You might win a new car!

Kings Island Kicks Cancer is a new park initiative this year. Beginning July 25 - August 24, you can purchase a soccer ball for only $5 or get 5 soccer balls for $20 and kick them into the fountain for your chance to win a 2015 Honda Fit, courtesy of our good friends at Performance Kings Honda.

Net proceeds benefit Melanoma Know More, The Dragonfly Foundation and Pink Ribbon Girls.

Share a photo of you getting ready to kick your soccer ball into the fountain on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #KIKicksCancer for your chance to win a behind the scenes tour of our maintenance shops this winter. You must follow us on one of the three social platforms listed to be eligible.

Sounds like a fun campaign supporting some fantastic organizations!!

I love the little duckies, but I can see them upping the theme for variety.

I never played for the prize, it's to get a shirt for my mom. but that maintenance tour really caught my eye.

I'll be there kickin'.

It looks like some great causes are benefiting this year. I am curious about the soccer balls: what happens when guests kick them too hard?

As part of this campaign, KI is looking for at least 184 heads to shave on Friday, August 1 to raise awareness and break a world record: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4baeaa23a13-kings

Greg Sheid registered to have his head shaved, according to his Twitter account. Presumably Don will join in on the fun as well?

Don already has a shaved head most of the time. How about waxed eyebrows?

It looks like some great causes are benefiting this year. I am curious about the soccer balls: what happens when guests kick them too hard? As part of this campaign, KI is looking for at least 184 heads to shave on Friday, August 1 to raise awareness and break a world record: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4baeaa23a13-kings Greg Sheid registered to have his head shaved, according to his Twitter account. Presumably Don will join in on the fun as well?

There was a target for the duckies, I would suspect they would try to coral the soccer balls likewise. The only people I can think of that would purposely kick a soccer ball into a crowd, or "misdirect" a soccer ball by kicking so hard to cause mayhem, wouldn't be the type to lay down donation money.

What happens when a well-meaning person attempts to kick the ball, only to display a complete lack of soccer skills by accidentally glancing it off the side of his foot and sending it sideways into the crowd? Some people just suck at kicking balls.

jcgoble3, one of those "some people"

Best soccer idea ever

What happens when a well-meaning person attempts to kick the ball, only to display a complete lack of soccer skills by accidentally glancing it off the side of his foot and sending it sideways into the crowd? Some people just suck at kicking balls.

jcgoble3, one of those "some people"

You run the same risk with throwing a ball.

See Mark Mallory.

Melanoma Know More

I get it.

A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball.

A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball.

Clearly former Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory is not "almost anyone"

A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball.

You do have a point. I'm just going to throw mine. Whatta they gonna do? Flag me?

edited to add on July 23:

Looks like they have a lot of net and astroturf for the area where you kick it into the fountain, from a picture on FB;

They are ready for clumsy sportsmen.

I am gonna Kick some Balls !

My friend and I did the $5 donation of Friday. The only way my kick could have been worse is if it had hit me in the face when it bounced back. It was pretty bad. My friend however made it in the goal. He won a free appetizer at Bonefish.

I shanked my kick into the netting on the right side. Just another reason why soccer is purely a spectator sport for me.

I'd laugh so hard if a soccer ball crossed the fountains and onto the midway

Also if someone gets them IN the fountains..they deserve a prize IMO lol

Oh gosh, there's a goal too? I am getting all my school gym class anxiety up over this promotion. I want to participate, but I am really bad at sports. I hope they'll be ok if I just toss mine in by hand. If not, I'll probably just donate money and leave it at that.

Oh gosh, there's a goal too? I am getting all my school gym class anxiety up over this promotion. I want to participate, but I am really bad at sports. I hope they'll be ok if I just toss mine in by hand. If not, I'll probably just donate money and leave it at that.

Don't fret. They have a pretty decent setup that forces the ball into the fountain. Even toddlers were tapping the ball and it was rolling into the fountain.

Way to make me feel better about my kick.... : (

Way to make me feel better about my kick.... : (

I'm afraid to ask: what happened?

I kicked it and it went off the side of my foot hit one of the metal bars on the fencing and flew back in my direction.

Oops. Did you try again, and if so, how did that work out?

No it rolled back down into the fountain.

Ape - I think you are awesome.

I hope you get a "kick" out of this down the road when you think back about it. Maybe there will be a story for you to share with your son as he gets older and gets to kick the ball himself. It would be nothing shy of awesome if he kicked the ball just like you.

I think it's hilarious. I was cracking up when it happened.

LOL, APE... You did it for a good cause, and that's what matters. It also ended up in the fountain ultimately, so that's done.

I may donate another $5 for the wife and I each and we both get to do it. She wasn't there Friday.

We Donated $60 on Saturday and got to kick 15 Soccer Balls into the fountain. And plan on doing more. It goes for a great cause!