Despite the rain appearing as a sudden special guest and having to move to another location close to the Tuffy Lawn, Titan Athletics and Associated Students managed to carry on hosting the fourth annual tailgate tradition \u201cBeat the Beach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 5 p.m. tailgate served as a pregame for the main 7 p.m. event which was Cal State Fullerton\u2019s men’s basketball team versus rival school Cal State Long Beach, referred to as \u201cthe Beach,\u201d inside Titan gym.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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\u2019s a space for everyone to celebrate Titans,\u201d said Titan Athletics Marketing Intern Lead for Campus Engagement Jayden Fernandez. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The tailgate included fun activities for the students to participate in while they waited for the game to start. This included a photo booth, cornhole and a poster table where they could make signs to cheer for the team. There was a table displaying a \u201cBeat the Beach\u201d t-shirt and other accessories to be given away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sponsors invited by Titan Athletics tabled at the event as well, including brands such as Protein Lab and A\u00e7ai Republic. Baby\u2019s Badass Burgers catered the event by providing a food truck, giving out vouchers for free food to the tailgaters.<\/p>\n
Eve Dowdell, a third-year transfer communications public relations major, has seen other Titan sports before, but never a basketball game. Dowdell wanted to come out and experience both the game and the atmosphere of the tailgate to feel the hype of what the tailgate is all about. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people around, I can hear the laughter, I can hear the joy,\u201d Dowdell said. \u201cSome people are playing with the stuff tossed behind me and so now I\u2019m really seeing that the Titans came out to represent and beat the Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first tailgate in this theme started back in the 2022-2023 school year when then ASI president Lydia Kelly supported the energy revolving around the coined rivalry. It was a way for both ASI and Titan Athletics to kick off the year by starting something that would later become a tradition in the long run.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For any of CSUF\u2019s teams that are playing against Long Beach State, a \u201cBeat the Beach\u201d tailgate is likely to happen for students to come out and show their Titan spirit.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s basketball is having their turn at it Feb. 12 with a pizza party. Women\u2019s softball has their tailgate night in April for their senior weekend and last home series.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d said Director of Marketing and Fan Engagements at Titan Athletics Carolyn Gill. \u201cI want them to take away \u2014 win or lose \u2014 we keep our tusks up and we come in with energy wanting to beat the Beach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the rain appearing as a sudden special guest and having to move to another location close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2454,1043,423,127,74719],"class_list":{"0":"post-151118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-event","13":"tag-game","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tailgate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}