Tonight the Armstrong State tennis and softball teams took part in the DII Festival Opening Ceremonies, held at Denver's Mile High Stadium. Home of the Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos. They made sure we knew that many times throughout the evening!
NCAA president Mark Emmert, Denver mayor Michael Hancock and others spoke to the more than 1,000 gathered student-athletes, welcoming them all to the Mile High City and preaching a message of community engagement, academic success as well as athletic success. Division II is unique within the NCAA in that they really do stress from a national level down to an institutional level about "life in the balance" and student-athletes succeeding in all parts of their collegiate careers. Armstrong State has had a banner year in the classroom this season - more than 70 student-athletes carried a 3.0 GPA or better during the calendar 2015 year.
After that came the exciting part - fireworks shot off from the Mile High Stadium field to the delight of all at the Opening Ceremonies. Watch the video from our Facebook page and be sure to follow us on Twitter all week long @armstrongpirate - we'll try to have some live look-ins at the Pirates through Periscope when they are not on the NCAA's live video feed.
Speaking of, the Armstrong State softball team will play at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow against Humbolt State kicking off action. Video and live stats links here. Let's go Pirates!
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