{"id":250,"date":"2025-10-13T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:50:08","slug":"celebrating-timeless-traditions-during-homecoming-week-at-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating timeless traditions during Homecoming Week at Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech is showing off its excitement and celebrating time-honored traditions this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.depts.ttu.edu\/sub\/Homecoming\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.depts.ttu.edu\/sub\/Homecoming\/\">Homecoming Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tate Hutchinson was last year\u2019s Homecoming King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He says he has experienced a few different homecoming traditions at different schools, but he believes the traditions at Tech can\u2019t be beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI know Oklahoma State is kind of deemed the best homecoming in America, and getting to experience both, I may be biased, but I do think Texas Tech\u2019s is unmatched,\u201d Hutchinson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Sebastian Pasillas, a master\u2019s student at Tech, is experiencing his first homecoming, and says he feels right at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEverybody here is really welcoming and it just feels like home here,\u201d Pasillas said. \u201cI tell people to come to Lubbock and they\u2019re like \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 I was like, you will go and you will never want to leave. I have already had that happen with my friends and it\u2019s pretty nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mckeely Underwood was last year\u2019s Homecoming Queen. She says her favorite tradition is the Techsan Memorial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI would say it\u2019s the Techsan Memorial, which is our memorial to honor all our past Red Raiders who have passed away,\u201d Underwood said. \u201cIt\u2019s really nice to see the Tech community come together for something bigger than itself and just have everybody rally together and honor everybody, so that is probably my favorite \u2018cause it really touches home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech is showing off its excitement and celebrating time-honored traditions this Homecoming Week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[447,300,448,168,170,169,302,27,445,446,449],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-community","tag-football","tag-homecoming","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-tech","tag-texas","tag-timeless","tag-traditions","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}