{"id":675,"date":"2018-12-05T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=675"},"modified":"2018-12-06T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:20:40","slug":"spirit-week-kicks-off-with-events-with-matches-and-games-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2018\/12\/spirit-week-kicks-off-with-events-with-matches-and-games-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Week kicks off with events; matches and games this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fencing, basketball, swimming and wrestling are all in the line-up for this week\u2019s homecoming, and Spirit Week kicked off Monday with activities and events designed by the Office of Student Activities to celebrate student-athletes and show some Hunter Hawk Pride.<\/p>\n

Students were encouraged to wear the jersey of their favorite team on Monday, and Tuesday held two events that students could participate in: \u201cTwin Tuesday\u201d and \u201cSelfie Day\u201d \u2013 a picture with a current student-athlete or a picture with the Hawk Nest sign on the B2 level in the West.<\/p>\n

Today is \u201cWorkout Wednesday\u201d and \u201cMeme Day.\u201d To participate students should attend a group fitness class or recreation, take a picture of it and tag the Hunter Athletics page. \u201cMeme Day\u201d encourages students to dress like their favorite popular meme.<\/p>\n

Thursday is set to hold \u201cHawk Thursday\u201d and \u201cCosplay Day.\u201d \u201cHawk Thursday\u201d includes a scavenger hunt where teams will spend two hours collecting items. Participants should meet in the B2 level of the West Building at 12:45 p.m. and should return all the items collected to their assigned tables. \u201cCosplay Day\u201d encourages students to dress as a superhero or villain from a movie or television show.<\/p>\n

Homecoming takes place on Friday, where there will be games for students to watch all day in the Hunter Sportsplex, B4 gymnasium and the North Pool. The day will begin at 3:30 p.m. where the men\u2019s wrestling team will face Mount Saint Vincent. At 5:30 p.m., Hunter women\u2019s basketball will face Baruch College while at 6 p.m. the women\u2019s swimming team will face John Jay College.<\/p>\n

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Hunter Hawk Mascot joins the crowd in the Sportsplex<\/figcaption> Photo by Hunter Athletics<\/span><\/figure>\n

There is an alumni vs. faculty\/staff basketball game in between the Hunter men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball game.<\/p>\n

The day of games will top off with Hunter men\u2019s and women\u2019s fencing facing Army at 7 p.m. and Hunter men\u2019s basketball facing Baruch College at 8:30 p.m. There will be a pep rally in the lobby of the West Building from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and an alumni reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Fencing Room. For students to participate in \u201cHomecoming,\u201d they should show up with their purple and gold Hunter gear.<\/p>\n

The office is also offering a chance to win prizes. If students attend three athletic events during homecoming, they are elligible to win a vintage athletic item. Students also have the chance to receive a prize and two vintage athletic items if they participate in all Spirit Week days and attend three athletic events during homecoming. On each day, students must post on Instagram using the hashtag #seizetheprey and tag the OSA and Hunter Athletics Instagram page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fencing, basketball, swimming and wrestling are all in the line-up for this week\u2019s homecoming, and Spirit Week kicked off Monday with activities and events designed to celebrate student-athletes and show some Hunter Hawk Pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}