Southern Arkansas University celebrated 100 years of Homecoming this past weekend. There were many events going on during the week of Homecoming that not only the students and faculty of SAU could take part in but the general public as well.
The Homecoming festivities began on Monday with a Pep Rally taking place in the Greek Theater. The Pep Rally helped introduce the 2015 SAU Homecoming court as well. Also on Monday the Rankin College of Business’ held their third annual “Light for the Fight” ceremony. Many events took place in the Mall area on campus on Tuesday with Hot dogs and Burgers being cooked and sold to the faculty and students. And as well were other extra curricular activities in the mall area as well occurred. The festivities continued on Wednesday night with a drive in movie held in the Reynold's Center parking lot. The movie that was shown to the students that came was "Ant Man", Thursday had the annual Spirit Log and street painting on the Farm road. As Friday came upon us it saw a long list of events taking place such as Greek SAU Camp out and Bonfire, the Alumni Golf Tournament, Homecoming Heartbeat, Hall of Fame dinner, and the Black Alumni Dinner.
Then the big day came on Saturday. It all began with the 100 years of Royalty Brunch followed up by Mulegating on the Ridge. Then finally the 2015 SAU Homecoming court were presented to the fans at the Homecoming game against Oklahoma Baptist. Mia Hyman was crowned Queen and Jacob Johnson was crowned King. The Muleriders capped off a great homecoming week with a win against Oklahoma Baptist winning by a score of 38-20
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