Being in the Dawg Pack
By charminflojo
Tags: Communication 495, Dawg Pack, Fans, Football, Purple and Gold, Student Section, University of Washington
Category: Uncategorized
Multimedia story by Charmin Flojo. Click here to view.
Text by Monica Nelson
For the 2009 football season, Husky Stadium opened an extra section for the Dawg Pack. It was used last year as a Student Reserved Season Tickets Section. (Official Athletic Website of the University of Washington)
“It’s exciting. It’s a big adrenaline rush… Everyone’s pumped up for the games.” – Alex Angier
The Dawg Pack: an epic collaboration of student fans at the University of Washington cheering for their team.
The 5,000 person student section follows a code where you have to wear purple, and you must cheer loud –preferably loud enough to lose one’s voice. The Dawg Pack is a group of individuals that becomes one shouting mass, leading the entire stadium in cheers and shouts.
To become a Dawg Pack member, you must prepare months in advance. Dawg Pack tickets for football season usually sell out quickly, especially if the team is expected to have an exciting season. Even more amazing are basketball season Dawg Pack tickets. This year the five hundred available tickets for the basketball season sold out in less than fifteen minutes. There were unlucky souls who waited months for the tickets to go on sale, and waited hours in line, and didn’t get tickets.
For students in the Dawg Pack, they know what a team effort it is. “It’s like a family,” one student said. Students sing the fight song at the top of their lungs, and bring energy to their team and the stadium alike.
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Awesome pictures and nat sound! The sequence and timing really worked well, and I felt like your ending represented students and their spirit perfectly. Great overall impact!