Schools and businesses will СAPPPaint the Town RedСAPP for the colorful Homecoming contest to determine the best displays of RaginСAPP Cajun spirit and pride.
Red and white decorations will be splashed across campuses and storefronts, and inside offices and school buildings, during the Paint the Town Red contest.
A team of local celebrity judges will visit schools and businesses that have entered the competition, searching for the best displays of RaginСAPP CajunСAPP spirit and pride.
Judges also will seek out the best, most creative ways students, teachers, employees and bosses celebrate the СAPPHomecoming 2014СAPP theme. That includes wearing red clothing and costumes and performing skits.
This yearСAPPs theme is СAPPRaginСAPP Cajuns Ever After,СAPP which refers to the СAPPСAPPs recent athletics success.
The RaginСAPP Cajuns won their third consecutive R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, the menСAPPs basketball team earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament and the menСAPPs tennis team won the Sun Belt Conference Championship. The RaginСAPP Cajuns softball team made the schoolСAPPs sixth appearance at the WomenСAPPs College World Series in May, the same month the baseball team was named the nationСAPPs unanimous No. 1 team. CBS.com ranked UL Lafayette 34th in its Best in College Sports ranking in July.
The Paint the Town Red contest will be judged on two days. Businesses will be visited from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Schools will be visited from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Amanda Gary, event chair for the schools portion of the Paint the Town Red contest, said judges will determine the best decorations and displays of RaginСAPP Cajun spirit in categories such as best decorations, and most spirited.
СAPPSome schools only decorate, while others perform skits or sing the СAPP fight song and the students sing and clap. ItСAPPs really fun to see,СAPP Gary said.
Monique Villien, event chair for the business portion of the Paint the Town Red contest, said large and small businesses will compete against each other for best interior decorations and best exterior decorations. Skits, however, will be judged in two divisions. They are: large businesses of 40 or more employees and smaller businesses of less than 40 employees.
Plaques will be awarded for first, second and third place in each category.
Judges for Paint the Town Red are: Brett Baer, former placekicker for the RaginСAPP Cajuns; Robert Harris, King Rob Productions; Ken Judice, BancorpSouth; Kip Judice, Lafayette Parish SheriffСAPPs Office; Bruce Mikells, 97.3 The Dawg; Hans Nelson, BIG 102.1; Jenn Nelson, BIG 102.1; Gail Savoie, UL Lafayette; Kassie Stoute, Sodexo; and Tracy Wirtz, KATC TV3.
For more information, visit louisianaalumni.org/hcevents