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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The 9th annual purple Invitational closed out Sunday elevating a whole lot of lots of greenbacks for a good cause.

donning crimson leotards, capes and boas, greater than 3,000 young gymnasts tumbled, flipped and climbed the stability beam on the Pennsylvania conference core. They were super heroes competing to carry cash within the fight towards breast melanoma.

Hazel Miller and Lauren Laurenz competed with Kendrick Kippettes gymnastics in Roxborough. They raised 13,000 for the cause doing cartwheels.

"We get sponsors to get donated per cartwheel that we do and i did like 70," Miller observed.

"I did fifty one," Laurenz said. "I received dizzy definitely quick."

Breast melanoma survivor Sue Weldon situated the pink Invitational which raises cash for her nonprofit Unite For Her, a firm that offers free health features to ladies after breast cancer treatments.

"That money will enable us to serve about 500 girls for that full 12 months," Weldon stated. "Giving them acupuncture, yoga and foodstuff consults."

On Saturday, the gymnasts bought a distinct deal with — a seek advice from from U.S. Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez.

This yr's event raised an estimated half-million bucks for Unite For Her.