{"id":24957,"date":"2025-10-24T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=24957"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:28:08","slug":"start-your-baylor-homecoming-visit-at-the-hurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2025\/10\/start-your-baylor-homecoming-visit-at-the-hurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Start your Baylor Homecoming visit at the Hurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24958\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hc-hurd-oct25.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors do a sic 'em during Homecoming at the Hurd\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hc-hurd-oct25.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hc-hurd-oct25-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hc-hurd-oct25-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hc-hurd-oct25-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a Homecoming regular or this is your first trip to campus in years, you&#8217;ll want to start your <a href=\"https:\/\/homecoming.web.baylor.edu\/\">Baylor Homecoming<\/a> experience this year at the Hurd Welcome Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homecoming.web.baylor.edu\/main-events\/homecoming-hurd\">The Hurd will serve as &#8220;Homecoming headquarters&#8221; for visitors<\/a>, with Baylor staff on hand Friday and Saturday to answer questions and help you connect with school\/college\/campus events &#8212; plus a host of activities, photo ops, student performances and more for Bears of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, doors open at 8 a.m. (for the Hurd as well as the Baylor Spirit Shop and Varsity Coffee &amp; Soda inside). Programming runs from 4-8:30 p.m. and includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A pop-up Vintage T-Shirt Shop (featuring classic Baylor logos)<\/li>\n<li>Interviews with former Baylor student-athletes, current coaches, &amp; more<\/li>\n<li>Student performances (BU Dance Company, CaBEARet, 40 Collective, and the Best of After Dark)<\/li>\n<li>Baylor history exhibits (curated from the collections of the Mayborn Museum, Texas Collection and Texas Sports Hall of Fame)<\/li>\n<li>Oso Esports&#8217; Rocket League Challenge (for kids 8+)<\/li>\n<li>Make-and-take wrist mums and other crafts for kids<\/li>\n<li>2025 Homecoming Keepsake Poster Give-away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday night, families don\u2019t have to choose between Homecoming and trick-or-treating. Kids of all ages can come (in costume!) for\u00a0a Fall Festival along Third Street (between the Hurd and Moody Library) &#8212; featuring games, candy, prizes, photo ops, festival food, and more, all on your way to Fountain Mall for Pep Rally and Bonfire.<\/p>\n<p>Food trucks will be parked outside the Hurd from 5-8:30 p.m. for visitors seeking easy dinner options, and a sensory room inside the Hurd (hosted by Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities) will be open from 4-8:30 p.m. to provide a safe, less stimulating environment for individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/homecoming.web.baylor.edu\/main-events\/homecoming-hurd\">Click here for a full &#8220;Homecoming at the Hurd&#8221; schedule of events<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hurd will also be open on Saturday (7-11 a.m., and again from 2:30-6 p.m. postgame). Stop by Saturday morning and grab coffee, hot chocolate, breakfast and brunch food from the food trucks outside the Hurd.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, countless other Homecoming events &#8212; from Pigskin, the bonfire, parade and football game to smaller campus\/departmental events &#8212; will be hosted all across campus. Check <a href=\"https:\/\/homecoming.web.baylor.edu\/full-schedule\">the full Homecoming schedule<\/a> for a complete listing.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Homecomers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re a Homecoming regular or this is your first trip to campus in years, you&#8217;ll want to start your Baylor Homecoming experience this year at the Hurd Welcome Center. The Hurd will serve as &#8220;Homecoming headquarters&#8221; for visitors, with Baylor staff on hand Friday and Saturday to answer questions and help you connect with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}