{"id":26407,"date":"2026-08-20T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:34:30","slug":"recfest-2026-to-bring-fun-games-and-free-food-sept-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/08\/20\/recfest-2026-to-bring-fun-games-and-free-food-sept-1\/","title":{"rendered":"RecFest 2026 to bring fun, games and free food, Sept. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to kick off the semester with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/life\/recreation\/\">University Recreation<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>RecFest 2026 is set for <strong>Tuesday, Sept. 1, from 5-7 p.m.<\/strong> at the Whitty Student Fitness Center.<\/p>\n<p>URec is kicking off the fall semester in a big way. The event features the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raffle prizes<\/li>\n<li>Free food, desserts and drinks<\/li>\n<li>Free RecFest shirts for the first 150 students<\/li>\n<li>Games, challenges and demos<\/li>\n<li>Campus and community partners<\/li>\n<li>Detroit Pistons Extreme Team and Hooper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re looking to get involved, meet new people, learn more about URec or just grab some free food and have fun, RecFest is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26410 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?resize=627%2C811&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Flyer for Detroit Mercy Recreation Center\u2019s \u201cRecFest\u201d event. A blue and red marquee-style graphic on a black background features sports and fitness icons and the text: \u201cRecFest.\u201d Event date and time: \u201cTuesday, Sept. 1st, 5\u20137 PM.\u201d Location: \u201cWhitty Student Fitness Center.\u201d Featured activities include free food, free T-shirts for the first 150 attendees, raffle prizes, photo booth, esports, mini putt-putt golf, Velcro soccer darts, campus and community partners, Spikeball, demo zone, Spyder Pong, Jacob\u2019s Ladder, plank challenge, rowing challenge, bench press challenge, and vertical jump challenge.\" width=\"627\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?resize=792%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?resize=768%2C993&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?resize=425%2C550&amp;ssl=1 425w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kick off the semester at RecFest 2026. Join URec on Tuesday, Sept. 1, from 5\u20137 p.m. at the Whitty Student Fitness Center for free food, games, swag and a special appearance by the Detroit Pistons Extreme Team and Hooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":26410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[7014,1668,566,567,7216],"class_list":["post-26407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccnews","category-student-announcements","tag-recfest","tag-recreation","tag-university-recreation","tag-urec","tag-whitty-student-fitness-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/what-is-Recfest-5.jpg?fit=825%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6RV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions\/26433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}