{"id":101364,"date":"2015-04-08T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=101364"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:56:47","slug":"championship-team-to-take-victory-lap-upon-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/04\/championship-team-to-take-victory-lap-upon-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Huskies to Celebrate 10th National Title with Victory Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 5px 15px 10px 0px; clear: both; float: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/uconn_WBB_2015_NCAA-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-101375 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/uconn_WBB_2015_NCAA-small.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/uconn_WBB_2015_NCAA-small.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/uconn_WBB_2015_NCAA-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/uconn_WBB_2015_NCAA-small-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/127;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When the 2015 NCAA championship University of Connecticut women&#8217;s basketball team returns to campus today\u00a0\u2013 after defeating Notre Dame 63-53 for the program&#8217;s 10th national title \u2013 a &#8220;Victory Lap&#8221; awaits.<\/p>\n<p>The team will ride in an open-air double decker bus through campus beginning at about 5:15 p.m., accompanied by the UConn pep band and cheerleaders. There will not be a public event at Bradley International Airport when the team and its travel party touch down there at 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Victory Lap will have a different route than last year&#8217;s, beginning at the Mansfield Town Square in Storrs Center, located on Route 195.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 5px 10px 10px; clear: both; float: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/victory-lap-1120x664.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101368 alignright img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/victory-lap-1120x664-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"victory-lap-1120x664\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/177;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Victory Lap will leave Storrs Center heading north on Route 195, before making a quick turn onto Mansfield Road to enter campus. The team will then turn onto Gilbert Road and right onto Hillside Road before arriving at Gampel Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Upon conclusion of the Victory Lap there will be a brief program at the North Entrance of Gampel Pavilion \u2013 near the Husky Dog statue.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can track the Huskies&#8217; exact progress from Bradley International Airport to campus with updates from Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnwbb\">@UConnWBB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parking for the event on campus will be available in both the North and South Parking Garages. For those wishing to park at Storrs Center, there is free two-hour parking in that garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women&#8217;s basketball players and coaches will begin their victory lap at Storrs Center at 5:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":101374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-101364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 18:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104756,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101364\/revisions\/104756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/101374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101364"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=101364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=101364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}