The parking lot outside the Hilliard Center was filled with Islander pride as Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi hosted its homecoming block party.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The parking lot outside the Hilliard Center was alive with Islander pride as Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi hosted its homecoming block party and tailgate.<\/p>\n
The space was transformed into a family-friendly celebration, complete with free games, live music, and plenty of food and fun. Students, alumni, and families gathered throughout the day to reconnect, celebrate traditions, and show off their Islander spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m impressed, overly impressed with the students at this university, the work they’re doing, the leadership they show, the new programs that are going on at A&M Corpus. It\u2019s always fun to see and get reconnected with all those people and new ideas that are happening on campus,\u201d said Jeff Dupont, a longtime supporter of the university.<\/p>\n
The festivities capped off with a 71\u201359 victory by the men\u2019s basketball team, sending fans home with even more Islander pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parking lot outside the Hilliard Center was filled with Islander pride as Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi hosted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-185324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}