{"id":91149,"date":"2014-04-03T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=91149"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:08","slug":"gov-malloy-proclaims-husky-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/gov-malloy-proclaims-husky-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Malloy Proclaims Husky Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ct.gov\/malloy\/lib\/malloy\/proclamation_-_2014.04.04_husky_weekend.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he is proclaiming<\/a> Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 6 as \u201cHusky Weekend\u201d in the State of Connecticut in honor of both the UConn men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams playing in the NCAA Final Four tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUConn again is the only school in the nation to have both our men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams reach the NCAA Final Four, and for that we are incredibly proud,\u201d Governor Malloy said.\u00a0 \u201cThis weekend, I urge Connecticut residents to put on your blue and white and show the nation how excited we are for our hometown teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Governor will extend \u201cHusky Weekend\u201d through Tuesday if either team \u2013 and hopefully both \u2013 make it to the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so proud of our UConn Huskies.\u00a0 All of Connecticut is rooting them on,\u201d Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman said.\u00a0 \u201cThe Governor and I congratulate the players and coaches on advancing to the Final Four \u2013 these are tremendous players, and great representatives of Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of our student athletes is a credit not only to their hard work, but also to the dedication of their coaches and the state\u2019s unwavering support of its flagship university,\u201d UConn President Susan Herbst said.\u00a0 \u201cThese teams\u2019 efforts help raise UConn\u2019s profile, and that draws more people to learn about our academic excellence.\u00a0 I encourage everyone to honor these incredible ambassadors by wearing our Husky gear and showing our UConn pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UConn men play the Florida Gators on Saturday evening, and the UConn women play the Stanford Cardinal on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ct.gov\/malloy\/lib\/malloy\/proclamation_-_2014.04.04_husky_weekend.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Malloy\u2019s proclamation designating \u201cHusky Weekend\u201d in Connecticut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has declared the upcoming weekend Husky Weekend, and invites fans to wear blue-and-white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":91151,"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":[1,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-91149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 15:09:53","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\/91149","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=91149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200717,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91149\/revisions\/200717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/91151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91149"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=91149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=91149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}