{"id":40875,"date":"2016-08-23T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=40875"},"modified":"2016-08-22T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:56:30","slug":"rocket-thursday-spirit-campaign-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_23_2016\/rocket-thursday-spirit-campaign-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rocket Thursdays&#8217; spirit campaign unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo announced a new spirit campaign called \u201cRocket Thursdays\u201d to encourage students, faculty, staff and all Rocket fans to wear Midnight Blue and Gold Rocket gear every Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The first \u201cRocket Thursday\u201d will be Aug. 25, the first Thursday of fall semester, and continue throughout the academic year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=40888\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rocket-Thursdays-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket Thursdays logo\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rocket-Thursdays-logo.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rocket-Thursdays-logo-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>\u201cUT students, staff and alumni have a proud tradition of supporting their school, so we are encouraging all Rockets to show their school spirit every Thursday by wearing Rocket gear, or by simply including blue and gold in their outfit that day,\u201d Heather Lutz, assistant athletic director for marketing, sales and fan experience, said. \u201cWe want everyone to show the Toledo community and all of Rocket Nation how much they love their Rockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, the UT Athletic Department will post photos of UT employees, students, alumni and fans wearing their Rocket gear on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Fans also will be encouraged to post their own photos using the hashtag #RocketThursdays. Weekly winners will be selected among photos showing the most school pride. Prizes will include tickets to UT football and basketball games, gift cards to Rocky\u2019s Locker, and Rocket gear. One person from both the Main\/Scott Park Campus and Health Science Campus will be chosen as winners.<\/p>\n<p>The University also announced it will hold a pep rally Thursday, Sept. 8, to promote the football team\u2019s home opener vs. Maine Saturday, Sept. 10. The first in a series, the pep rallies will take place on Centennial Mall in front of the Student Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo announced a new spirit campaign called \u201cRocket Thursdays\u201d to encourage students, faculty, staff and all Rocket fans to wear Midnight Blue and Gold Rocket gear every Thursday. The first \u201cRocket Thursday\u201d will be Aug. 25, the first Thursday of fall semester, and continue throughout the academic year. \u201cUT students, staff and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_23_2016\/rocket-thursday-spirit-campaign-unveiled\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40890,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions\/40890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}