Lindsay Haupt is one of the many outstanding Sacramento State athletes faculty and staff can cheer on for free this year.
Sacramento State faculty and staff will have a veritable wide world of sports available for free this year.
University President Alexander Gonzalez and director of Athletics Terry Wanless recently announced that employees and their immediate family members will be able to attend nearly all of Sacramento State’s home sports events for free. All they have to do is show their One Card at the entrance.
“This gives faculty and staff a great opportunity to support the student athletes they teach and interact with,” Gonzalez says. “I hope many will take advantgage of it.”
“We are excited to partner with the President’s office on this opportunity to recognize the contributions of our faculty and staff,” Wanless says. “We have always appreciated their support and really enjoy having them attend and support the student-athletes at Hornet athletic events.”
The program does not include football or men’s basketball, but there’s still plenty of championship athletics from which to choose.
Last year, Hornet teams included in the program won eight titles and had five teams advance to NCAA postseason. Those teams included women’s gymnastics, which won the Western Athletic Conference title two years in a row and participated in NCAA postseason action. Women’s soccer went to the Big Sky Conference championships. Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams won Big Sky Conference titles and went on to postseason play, as did the women’s golf team. Men’s golf won the NCAA Division I Independent title and women’s rowing took the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association team title.
Men’s indoor track and field also won a conference title, but only competes on the road.
And sports fans won’t want to miss women’s volleyball, which is saying good-bye to Hall of Fame coach Debby Colberg this year. Colberg has averaged more than 25 wins a season and won more than 800 matches. She ranks fourth among active NCAA Division I volleyball coaches in total victories.
That’s a whole year of award-winning sports programs, and it’s all free for faculty and staff.
