Golf Carts & Megaphones

Morgan Farrar

If you were on campus around lunch on any given Thursday walking through Red Square or the Quad on your way to class, you have probably seen the UW golf cart speeding by at a whopping 10 mph with a girl yelling about some Husky Athletic events through a megaphone..well, that's Natalie...and she's weird! But that's us...The Husky Street Team!

HST members Morgan, Natalie, Harry the Husky, & Sarah

Two or three of us, and sometimes a special appearance Harry the Husky (oh, yes), are on campus every week handing out 500 - 1,000 flyers depending on the athletic events that week. Last Thursday, Nov. 21, we handed out over 1,000 flyers (the majority during 10 minute passing periods, because we're a boss like that) to get students excited about #2 Husky Men's Soccer hosting and winning the first NCAA playoff game! The flyers informed everyone of the student promotions, like iPad give aways, and game time information.

Go Huskies!

Romar Pumps up Dawg Pack at "Swishes for Wishes"

Sarah Merrion

Husky Hoops Are Here!

To kick off the Husky Men's Basketball season in early November, Coach Lorenzo Romar was stoked to interact with Dawg Pack members to get students pumped for the upcoming season. He rolled up in his fly Tahoe to make a special appearance at the Chi Omega Sorority's Philanthropy (home to myself and HST member  Natalie), "Swishes for Wishes," a basketball tournament for UW Fraternities that raises money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Coach Romar, the Godfather of the Dawg Pack, gave an inspirational speech at the ice cream social, encouraging the 100+ students there to buy Dawg Pack tickets if they hadn't done so already and to spread the word.

 

Addressing his audience. #likeaboss

Packed house at Chi O for "Swishes for Wishes" ice cream social

He concluded by asking a few trivia questions, giving one special student an autographed basketball, and gettin' 'em going with a round of "Go Huskies." After the event, he kindly took a few pictures with students who were excitedly talking about getting their Dawg Pack tickets.

Coach signing a ball for the knowledgeable trivia winner.

Trivia winner & Coach Romar. That flat-top though...

Go Dawgs!

First Year Programs, Athletics. Athletics, FYP.

Erin Allett

Mary Gates Hall, home of First Year Programs

Earlier this afternoon, I sat down with LeAnne Wiles-Jones for lunch to further discuss First Year Programs programming and the potential to partner with Athletics in 2014, for 2014-15, and beyond! We had a great chat and both left very excited about what's in store for our partnership. LeAnne was kind enough to invite me to join their staff meeting on January 13 at Mary Gates Hall to introduce myself to their staff and dive into planning, brainstorming, and figuring out how we can best improve the UW student experience together.

Greek Chapter & Residence Halls Outreach

Sam Millang

Tuesday evenings doors all around the UW Greek community are flying open as the Husky Street Team (HST) makes the rounds informing chapters of "This Week in Husky Athletics."

Not a member of a Greek house? No problem, Husky Street Team has you covered. Wednesdays during the busiest lunch hours the HST makes it around to the largest cafeterias on campus to hand out flyers and let students know of all the upcoming events and special student perks in Husky Athletics.

Keep your eyes on the lookout for the HST around campus on a daily basis; we seem to be in a million places at once.  

If you have any ideas of new places that should be a focus for the HST to promote Husky Athletics please comment below!  


Go Dawgs!

Men's & Women's Soccer DPA

Erin Allett

Husky Athletics does it again and pulls off a great Dawg Pack Appreciation events at Husky Women's Soccer this past Sunday afternoon vs. Cal and Husky Men's Soccer vs. UCLA on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7p.m. at Husky Soccer Stadium. Husky Street Team hit up campus (Red Square, Greeks, Residence Halls - as they do on the daily) to promote DPA. Also, it was announced over PA at two games leading up to the showdown.

As usual, the first Dawg Pack members in attendance received a FREE t-shirt and a $5 concession coupon. Oh, and some saweet Husky Soccer thundersticks and an in-game shout out of a message from Head Coach Lesle Gallimore and her team.

First 50 Dawg Pack received these puppies. Fo. Free.

Happy Huskyween!

Sarah Merrion

  

Happy Halloween!

...or should I say Huskyween

HST members Morgan, Natalie and myself felt like we were kids again getting dressed up to work the Husky Spirit Station at the first Husky Women's Basketball exhibition game of the season!

The Dawgs ended up kicking butt against Concordia and winning 87-40. While they were hard at work, Husky Street Team was up in the concourse manning the Husky Spirit Station filled with supplies for fans to make awesome Husky Basketball and/or Halloween-themed posters. All fans were welcome to make posters and munch on some candy, but the kids who came dressed up in their Halloween costumes were the most excited! They must have been true Husky fans to give up trick-or-treating... we weren't about to let them miss out on candy!

HSTers Sarah, Natalie, and Morgan with Super Harry

In addition to the poster making station, HST ran the photobooth with Super Harry! Fans stopped by on the way to their seats to snap a quick picture with Harry and their freshly made signs. It was so fun, even HST couldn't resist taking some fun photos.

Look out for HST at the upcoming Women's Basketball games!

GO DAWGS,

Sarah

"W" Day with Romar & Nabes

Erin Allett

Happy Birthday, UW!

Friday, October 25 was "W" Day on UW's campus - marking not only the University of Washington's 152nd birthday (HBD), but also Homecoming in Seattle. Upper Campus Marketing and Events teams approached us to include our Husky Basketball Coaches, Lorenzo Romar and first-year head coach Mike Neighbors, and our student-athletes into the programming of the Homecoming Pep Rally. While this was a great opportunity for our coaches to increase their exposure with UW students, it was equally important to Upper Campus given that Athletics is such a large part of life on campus and of a student's experience (there's that theme again...).

With the help of the Husky Marching Band an introduction by University President Michael Young, they got 300+ students rocking with a "Go Huskies," giveaways, and got them hype about the upcoming Men's Basketball and Women's Basketball seasons...which are right around the corner!

Coach Lorenzo Romar, President Young, & Coach Mike Neighbors after a successful W Day Pep Rally.
Check out the Husky Band!

Coach Romar & Coach Nabes entertaining a group of 200-300 students on Red Square.

Members of the 2013-14 Women's Hoops team joined the coaches on stage for a "Go Huskies" (see video above)
Brianna Ruiz, Heather Corral, Katie Collier, Kelsey Plum, & Aminah Williams

Definitely a great event all-around (Romar and Nabes had a blast) and something Husky Athletics will continue to be involved in for years to come!