{"id":378808,"date":"2026-08-23T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:24:09","slug":"florida-atlantic-hosts-fan-fest-to-kickoff-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378808\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic hosts Fan Fest to kickoff school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Atlantic hosts Fan Fest to kickoff school year and Fall sports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/news-team\/bd905d4d-14d1-4e3e-af85-b99e5672e97d\" aria-label=\"Yianni Kourakis profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bd905d4d-14d1-4e3e-af85-b99e5672e97d_1657580305.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Yianni Kourakis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">It&#8217;s back to school at Florida Atlantic University and the school hosted its annual Fan Fest to celebrate on Saturday at Flagler Credit Union Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The plaza outside the stadium featured a live concert, concessions, games, inflatables and giveaways for students and fans alike. Fans were also able to meet all the Owl student-athletes and get autographs from all the players.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The night also included a program inside the stadium and a drone show. Fan Fest was part of Freshman orientation. FAU is welcoming in it&#8217;s largest Freshman class ever.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Owls football team begins their season September 5th at the University of Florida. FAU&#8217;s home opener is the following Saturday against Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic hosts Fan Fest to kickoff school year and Fall sports BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2014 It&#8217;s back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3337,4403,71817,3341,28,29501,30,29,44351],"class_list":["post-378808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-boca-raton","tag-college","tag-fan-fest","tag-fau","tag-florida","tag-florida-atlantic","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}