Don't pass up the opportunity to have your youth basketball team play on the O'Rena court or at the Ultimate Soccer Arena during an OU athletic competition halftime.  The 2008-09 OU Athletic seasons saw a number of halftime scrimmage appearances by our very own local youth teams and greatly look forward to offering the same opportunity during the 2009-10 seasons. 

The Oakland University Athletic Department would like to welcome your school to join us for the 2009-10 Friends and Family Night at the O'Rena, a special community promotion.  Our goal this season is to be able to designate a school(s) at each of our home games for unique recognition, promotions, and experiences. Your school would receive special discounted tickets, food vouchers, and exciting opportunities such as scoreboard recognition, meet and greets with our student-athletes, and game participation such as in-game promotions, the national anthem, postgame shoot around and other interactive experiences.

The Golden Grizzlies would greatly appreciate the support of your school and would like to support your school in return as well.  Groups in attendance at our games are given a special ticket rate of $5.00 which includes a single game ticket as well as a $5.00 concessions voucher.  In support of your school we would like to offer that if your school would like to use this family night event as a PTA fundraiser you could sell to your families for $7.00 per ticket, giving $5.00 to Oakland University Athletics and $2.00 back to your PTA.

OU Athletics is excited about bringing the O'Rena experience to the youth of our community, and we feel that the excitement of both our men's and women's basketball teams is the perfect way to do that.

Click here for Friends & Family sample flyer: Complete Release in PDF Format

Call Kate Boylan at 248-370-3161 today to arrange and outing for your child's school!

In-Game Music and Daktronics Board Operators

If you love attending OU Athletic events and would like to participate with in-game operations, here is your chance! 

OU Athletics is accepting applications for in-game music operators for volleyball, men's and women's basketball, softball and baseball.  In-game music operators will be responsible for pre-game, time-out, halftime, and post-game sound on the O'Rena sound system for volleyball and basketball or at the OU Baseball/Softball fields. 

OU Athletics is accepting applications for in-game Daktronics (graphics/video board) Operators.  If you are saavy in graphic programs such as Photoshop and would like to put your skills to use in an event setting this is the position for you!  Daktronics Operators will have the opportunity to create in-game graphics and control what information is posted on the O'Rena video board on all home game days.