Bearapalooza offers a day of fun, tailgating, hanging out with and watching your Bears compete, all while supporting our student-athletes. There will be live music from the Shelby Rae Moore Band beginning at noon on the Surface Family Practice Field/Gold tailgating Lot, and you can tailgate with many of the Bear sports teams, including LR Football Head Coach Doug Socha, his staff, and the football team. Local food trucks in attendance will be Order Up, Big Daddy's Kountry Cookin', Gas Up, Crab Shack King, Thee Stuffed Waffle, Kona Ice and Sunset Slush of Wilkes. In addition there will be inflatables, obstacle courses and a face painter.

Schedule

• 10 a.m. — Admission Campus Tour
  Bearapalooza is a great time to visit campus and spend the day cheering on your Bears. Register for a campus tour through the admission website.
• 10 a.m. (all day) — Southside Power & Fitness Invitational Track & Field Meet
• 11 a.m. — Red and Black Spring Football Game
• 11 a.m. — Men’s Tennis vs #15 Lincoln Memorial
• 1 p.m. — Baseball vs Emory & Henry
• 2 p.m. — Women’s Tennis vs #35 Lincoln Memorial
• 3 p.m. — Women’s Lacrosse vs Anderson
• 4 p.m. — Baseball vs Emory & Henry
• 7 p.m. — Men’s Lacrosse vs #6 Anderson

A staple of BeaRaPaLooZa is the Bears Club Spring Raffle that takes place each spring and involves raffle tickets being sold for $100 each, with the opportunity for purchasers to win over 30 prizes. The drawing for the raffle prizes will be held during the event. This year's raffle will feature four cash prizes ($250 x2, $500, and $1,000), a Charleston experience, a golf experience at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, plus mountain house getaways, restaurant gift cards and more! To purchase raffle tickets visit the Bears Club website.

Additionally, the Joe Bear's Cub Club presented by Arby's T-shirt Design Contest returns this year with the winner announced at BeaRaPaLooZa. The contest is open to kids aged 12 and younger. Visit the contest website for more information.

For any other information about BeaRaPaLooZa please reach out to Shayna Skonieczki at shayna.skonieczki@lr.edu.