Updated 4:50 p.m. Oct. 17, 2019
Kara Lara, senior athletic marketing and digital media coordinator, sent an email earlier today to those who signed up for the shuttle ride to Madness on Friday evening, asking that they print out the travel form that was attached to the email in order to board the shuttle.
“If you do not plan to return to Brownsville on the shuttle, please make sure to respond to this email,” Lara stated in the email.
The UTRGV Madness bus itinerary is as follows:
–Check-in will from 5 to 5:15 p.m. at the Main Building in Brownsville
–The shuttle will leave Brownsville at 5:30 p.m. and arrive at the Edinburg Fieldhouse at 7 p.m.
–Check-in for the return trip to Brownsville is at 11 p.m. at the Fieldhouse
–The shuttle will leave the Edinburg campus at 11:30 p.m.
–Arrival at the Main Building in Brownsville will be at 1 a.m.
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Students who want to sign up for a free shuttle ride from the Brownsville campus to UTRGV Madness in Edinburg have until 11:59 tonight to reserve a spot.
The form is available on VLink. Students may search “spirit program” and click on the 2019 UTRGV Madness shuttle form to sign up.
“Even though [Madness] is not on their campus, we still want [students from Brownsville] to feel connected to the university and this is part of their school experience,” Student Activities Assistant Director Lauren Contreras said earlier today.
Check-in for the shuttle is from 5 to 5:15 p.m. Friday in front of the Main Building on the Brownsville campus. The shuttle will leave at 5:30 p.m.
“[The shuttle] should arrive at the Fieldhouse around 7 p.m. and will depart from the Fieldhouse at 11 p.m. and should arrive, more or less, in Brownsville around 1 a.m.,” Contreras said.
Seating on the shuttle is limited and will be given on a first-come-first-serve basis.
The Student Government Association and Athletics Department will provide the shuttle service.
UTRGV Madness serves as an introduction to both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, along with an annual student organization dance-off.
A block party is scheduled at 7 p.m. in the Fieldhouse parking lot. UTRGV Madness will begin at 9 p.m. inside the Fieldhouse.
Doors open at 8:40 p.m. Admission is free.
“We hope people come out and the bus people for sure get a T-shirt,” Contreras said. “They should definitely go.”
