{"id":149189,"date":"2019-05-02T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=149189"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:01:40","slug":"free-every-student-every-sport-every-home-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/05\/free-every-student-every-sport-every-home-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets: Every Student, Every Home Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in the fall of 2019, UConn students will no longer need to purchase tickets for home games, according to an announcement today from UConn Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>For ticketed events, students will simply need to swipe their Student ID for admission, and will gain entry on a first-come, first-served basis. Sports that will employ this new process next season include football, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, and men\u2019s hockey.<\/p>\n<p>For all non-ticketed events, students will continue to gain admittance free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled that we have been able to partner with the UConn Division of Student Affairs to create a policy that will allow students to gain entry to our home games without buying a ticket,\u201d said David Benedict, director of athletics.\u00a0 \u201cOur students help create an exciting atmosphere at many of our home events, and I am hopeful that this new streamlined process will entice even more students to join the fun. Students already contribute to our success through student fees, and I feel it is important to eliminate any cost to them above and beyond those fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For select basketball games, student tickets will be distributed in advance. More information on these games and the ticket process will be provided later this summer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149192\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149192 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A UConn Men's Basketball home game at Gampel Pavilion. (Stephen Slade '89 (SFA) for UConn)\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mbbmore-26-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/367;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UConn Men&#8217;s Basketball home game at Gampel Pavilion. (Stephen Slade &#8217;89 (SFA) for UConn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in the fall of 2019, students will no longer need to purchase tickets for home games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":149191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,173,92,174,2225,90,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-149189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 18:39:19","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\/149189","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=149189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149534,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149189\/revisions\/149534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/149191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149189"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=149189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=149189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}