{"id":1136,"date":"2012-07-19T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:48:14","slug":"familiar-with-nau-athletics-you-dont-know-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/familiar-with-nau-athletics-you-dont-know-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar with NAU Athletics? You don\u2019t know Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"10%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"7\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOYUcNxc748\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>NAU teams are only a few weeks away from their first games of the 2012 season, and odds are that Lumberjack fans will feel a new excitement throughout athletics.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NAU reduces football ticket prices, introduces Sports Pass\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-reduces-football-ticket-prices-introduces-sports-pass\/\">Lower ticket prices<\/a>, a refurbished Skydome and a brand new attitude mean the Lumberjacks will be showing a renewed pride when the axe falls in August.<\/p>\n<p>The football Jacks travel to Tempe to meet the ASU Sun Devils on Aug. 30, then to Sin City to play UNLV on Sept. 8. The first home game of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/2012-13\/schedule\">2012 season<\/a>\u00a0is at 4 p.m. Sept. 15 against Fort Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The Lumberjacks feature Walter Payton Award candidate running back\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/2012-13\/bios\/bauman%20zach%2075s5\">Zach Bauman<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the leader of an offensive unit, bolstered by the experience of a senior quarterback in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/2012-13\/bios\/grossart%20cary%20fczw\">Cary Grossart<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about the upcoming season and hope the Flagstaff community will join us,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Lisa Campos<\/strong>, vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics. NAU President\u00a0<strong>John Haeger\u00a0<\/strong>added, \u201cAthletic events are opportunities for us to come together, support our students and strengthen the bond between the university and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Football won\u2019t be the only game in town, though.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/wsoc\/2012-13\/schedule\">The Lumberjack soccer squad<\/a>\u00a0travels to Vegas on Aug. 17, and hosts ASU and the University of Arizona the following weekend. For all the sports schedules, including volleyball, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/landing\/index\">nau.edu\/athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAU has established a great tradition in athletics while emphasizing student success, and that\u2019s a strong foundation to build on,\u201d Campos said. \u201cI look forward to building an even stronger bond between athletics and academics, and to answering President Haeger\u2019s call for consistently competitive teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/familiar-with-nau-athletics-you-dont-know-jacks\/\">NAU teams are only a few weeks away from their first games of the 2012 season, and odds are that Lumberjack fans will feel a new excitement throughout athletics. Lower ticket prices, a refurbished Skydome and a brand new attitude mean the Lumberjacks will be showing a renewed pride when the axe falls in August.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}