CSUF basketball tailgate brings college students below one roof | Way of life

Despite the rain showing as a sudden particular visitor and having to maneuver to a different location near the Tuffy Lawn, Titan Athletics and Associated Students managed to hold on internet hosting the fourth annual tailgate custom “Beat the Beach.” 

The 5 p.m. tailgate served as a pregame for the principle 7 p.m. occasion which was Cal State Fullerton’s males’s basketball workforce versus rival college Cal State Long Beach, known as “the Beach,” inside Titan health club. 

“This is basically a place for students to have fun, get ready to understand the Titan Athletics spirit and what we have to offer and honestly it’s a space for everyone to celebrate Titans,” stated Titan Athletics Marketing Intern Lead for Campus Engagement Jayden Fernandez.  

The tailgate included enjoyable actions for the scholars to take part in whereas they waited for the sport to begin. This included a photograph sales space, cornhole and a poster desk the place they might make indicators to cheer for the workforce. There was a desk displaying a “Beat the Beach” t-shirt and different equipment to be given away. 

Sponsors invited by Titan Athletics tabled on the occasion as nicely, together with manufacturers comparable to Protein Lab and Açai Republic. Baby’s Badass Burgers catered the occasion by offering a meals truck, giving out vouchers totally free meals to the tailgaters.

Eve Dowdell, a third-year switch communications public relations main, has seen different Titan sports activities earlier than, however by no means a basketball recreation. Dowdell wished to come back out and expertise each the sport and the environment of the tailgate to really feel the hype of what the tailgate is all about.     

“There’s a lot of people around, I can hear the laughter, I can hear the joy,” Dowdell stated. “Some people are playing with the stuff tossed behind me and so now I’m really seeing that the Titans came out to represent and beat the Beach.”

The first tailgate on this theme began again within the 2022-2023 college 12 months when then ASI president Lydia Kelly supported the vitality revolving across the coined rivalry. It was a approach for each ASI and Titan Athletics to kick off the 12 months by beginning one thing that will later grow to be a convention in the long term.       

For any of CSUF’s groups which might be enjoying towards Long Beach State, a “Beat the Beach” tailgate is prone to occur for college kids to come back out and present their Titan spirit.

Women’s basketball is having their flip at it Feb. 12 with a pizza celebration. Women’s softball has their tailgate night time in April for his or her senior weekend and final residence sequence.

“I want them (students) to feel that like this is the campus life, this is what you see in the movies like this is that feel you want in college,” stated Director of Marketing and Fan Engagements at Titan Athletics Carolyn Gill. “I want them to take away — win or lose — we keep our tusks up and we come in with energy wanting to beat the Beach.”