{"id":87938,"date":"2024-08-27T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=87938"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:45:59","slug":"rocket-week-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_27_2024\/rocket-week-kick-off","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Week Kick Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim President Matt Schroeder, far right, is joined, from left, by Rocky, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Bryan Blair, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and director of athletics, at Monday\u2019s flag-raising ceremony at One Government Center in downtown Toledo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87939\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08262024-4333.jpg\" alt=\"Interim President Matt Schroeder, far right, is joined, from left, by Rocky, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Bryan Blair, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and director of athletics, at Monday\u2019s flag-raising ceremony at One Government Center in downtown Toledo.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08262024-4333.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08262024-4333-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was one of several planned as part of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_22_2024\/rocket-week-begins-today-to-kick-off-2024-25-season\">Rocket Week<\/a>\u201d \u2014 including an on-campus pep rally in Centennial Mall on Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 12:30 p.m. \u2014 all leading up to the first home football game of the season, &#8220;The Biggest Party in Toledo,&#8221; on Thursday, Aug. 29, with Toledo hosting Duquesne at Glass Bowl Stadium at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are encouraged to wear their Toledo gear or school colors (Midnight Blue and Gold) in support of the Rockets throughout Rocket Week \u2014 especially on Rocket Thursday \u2014 and to share their Toledo pride on social media by using the hashtags #RocketWeek and #TeamToledo.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase football tickets, stop by the Rocket Ticket Office at Savage Arena, go online to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Futrockets.evenue.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Fncommerce3%2FSEGetGroupList%3FgroupCode%3DFB%26linkID%3Dtoledo-athletics%26shopperContext%3D%26caller%3D%26appCode%3D%26RSRC%3DDigitalAd%26RDAT%3DFBTixRedirect&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csteven.easton%40utoledo.edu%7C1950b6aa99314f0a768e08dcc21c147e%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C638598673060431408%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qjqt6bS9iFjimI8IB0Y8UPgowLBqb9DBHGK%2Bx5OJZCY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">UTRockets.com\/fbtix<\/a>\u00a0or call 419-530-GOLD (4653). In celebration of Rocket Week, fans have the option of purchasing tickets for the home opener for $15 per ticket by going to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/utrockets.com\/RocketWkTix\">utrockets.com\/RocketWkTix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hq_bSoOs-vM?si=8Pbo8czbw_FhlBqF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_27_2024\/rocket-week-kick-off\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08262024-4333-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Interim President Matt Schroeder, far right, is joined, from left, by Rocky, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Bryan Blair, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and director of athletics, at Monday\u2019s flag-raising ceremony at One Government Center in downtown Toledo.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Monday\u2019s flag-raising ceremony at One Government center in downtown Toledo was one of several \u201cRocket Week\u201d events leading up to Thursday night&#8217;s season opener at Glass Bowl Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":87939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938"}],"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\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87948,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938\/revisions\/87948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}