The 2018 Homecoming Parade is set for Saturday, Oct. 20, presented by the UNI Bookstore!

Alumni Welcome Tent

There’s No Place Like Homecoming! Make plans to stop by the Alumni Welcome Tent before the annual Homecoming Parade. Take advantage of complimentary donuts, coffee and Panther giveaway prizes while supplies last. 

9 - 11 a.m.
Saturday, October 20
1012 W. 23rd Street, across from the UNI Bookstore

Student and Community Entries

The parade is a great way to bring together the university, its alumni and community to celebrate the past, present and future of UNI. If you’d like to participate in this year's parade, please fill out the forms noted below and submit by Oct. 5, 2018. Contact Homecoming Parade Director Shelby Schroeder with any questions.

NOTE:  All student orgs will need to provide their own cardboard for float building this year! Groups are also required to attend a mandatory meeting on Monday, October 8 from 5-7 PM in Maucker Union Ballroom A. 

Sign up to be a part of the 2018 parade by downloading a parade entry form (below).

We look forward to seeing you there!

Parade Entry Form Downloads

Homecoming Parade Entry Form
(Please complete an entry form for EACH individual entry)

Entry Description/Emcee Information 
(All parade entries must complete one parade regulations and waiver form) 

Golf Cart Usage Agreement 
(Only UNI student groups/orgs must complete this form)

2018 Parade Information

2018 Homecoming Parade Committee

2018 Parade Route Map

FAQs

Limited supplies will be provided and available to student organizations building floats: tag board, zip ties, painter’s tape, cardboard, TempraPaint, foam paint brushes, scissors, tape measure, yard stick, string, staple guns and duct tape (for cardboard), paper rotary rack (20 rolls), permanent markers, wire cutters, rubber cement, markers, exacto knife and blades, plastic tarps.

Additional supplies that student organizations may want to bring: extra cardboard, streamers, chicken wire, tissue paper, colored napkins, fringe, pipe cleaners, battery operated lights, wrapping paper, yarn, balloons, foil, stencils, floral, garland.

NOTE: Duct tape cannot be used to tape anything to the golf carts. No painting the actual golf cart. Items can be pre-painted and attached to cart.

Standard two-seat golf cart dimensions: length = 94.5" / width = 47" / height = 45.7" / height with canopy/suntop = 68.5"

We're excited to announce alumna Sandy Stevens as our 2018 Homecoming Grand Marshal!

Sandy Phillips Stevens was born and reared in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she married her high school sweetheart, Bob “Bear” Stevens. She attended the University of Iowa for two years but -- after seeing the light -- transferred to UNI, graduating in 1962 with a B.A. in English education (with a journalism emphasis) and a speech minor. 

She taught journalism and/or English classes at Waterloo East, Cedar Rapids Washington (her alma mater), Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Pleasant Valley high schools before moving to Illinois when Bear accepted a superintendency in the Chicago suburbs. A journalist and community ambassador for daily newspapers in the Chicago suburbs, Sandy now serves as a free-lance columnist and feature writer for a national publication. For more than four decades, her avocation has been announcing amateur wrestling tournaments, including the Olympic Games, multiple world championships at all age levels and college and high school championships. 

Sandy's involvement with UNI is extensive and generous. She currently serves on the UNI Foundation Board of Trustees and is a past chair of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She initiated the Pledges for Pins program, which raises funds for the UNI wrestling program and has also established scholarships in the fields of English education, science education and wrestling. The West Gym renovation was successful because of Sandy's generosity, and we have her to thank for helping make it a "home" for UNI wresting’s past, present and future. Sandy’s name is on the UNI wrestling coaching position as a result of an endowment she established. She is also a member of the UNI Athletic Hall of Fame.