{"id":4811,"date":"2023-10-18T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2023-10-18T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:24:28","slug":"greek-organizations-compete-mr-and-ms-trojan-pride-revealed-during-pep-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/18\/greek-organizations-compete-mr-and-ms-trojan-pride-revealed-during-pep-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek organizations compete, Mr. and Ms. Trojan Pride revealed during pep rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Students packed into Trojan Arena for this year&#8217;s Homecoming Pep Rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this year&#8217;s matchup against the Arkansas Red Wolves being just one day away, anticipation has reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My favorite part is probably the pep rally,&#8221; said Kappa Delta sophomore Ashley Alexander. &#8220;It&#8217;s just exciting to see everyone get hyped up for the game this Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rally also allowed students to score off against each other in fun games. The games helped TROY&#8217;s sororities and fraternities gain points for this year&#8217;s homecoming competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That goes towards points for some organizations to win homecoming,&#8221; Homecoming Committee Director Abigail Grantham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Homecoming draws alumni back to TROY, but new students also got in on the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never actually been a part of any other homecoming so just being able to see the TROY experience, I&#8217;ve kind of loved every second of it,&#8221; said freshman Basil Smith. &#8220;All my friends were going and I heard that the band was going to be here and the Sound of the South always brings a lot of pep to the step.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, Mr. and Ms. Trojan Pride were revealed. There were 17 candidates in all but that group was narrowed down to the two winners Derrick Nobles and and Shalyn Merida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Students packed into Trojan Arena for this year&#8217;s Homecoming Pep Rally.<\/p>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s matchup against the Arkansas Red Wolves being just one day away, anticipation has reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My favorite part is probably the pep rally,&#8221; said Kappa Delta sophomore Ashley Alexander. &#8220;It&#8217;s just exciting to see everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/18\/greek-organizations-compete-mr-and-ms-trojan-pride-revealed-during-pep-rally\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[771],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-homecoming","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}