MSU Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area

With the Fall football season almost upon us (the Summer is going by too fast!), we are also nearing the time to hold annual board elections for your MSU Bay Area Alumni Club!

We are looking for a few motivated and enthusiastic Spartans to help us grow the club in a variety of different roles:

1. President
2. Vice-President
3. Treasurer / University Liason
4. Webmaster / Communications
5. Young Alumni Coordinator
6. Social Events
7. Fundraising / Community Outreach
8. Membership / Career Services

If you have any interest in nominating yourself for one of these positions, please contact me or Katrina Hammer at your earliest convinience. If you are considering a position but not quite sure what work might be entailed, we can answer those questions too so don’t hesitate to ask.

Elections will be held at the end of September, details on more precisely when and where will be posted soon. Please do consider joining us for the coming year!

Here is the schedule for the upcoming season. Kickoff time is listed if known.

Sep 04
vs. Western Michigan
East Lansing, MI
12:00 p.m. ET

Sep 11
vs. Florida Atlantic
Detroit, MI
12:00 p.m. ET

Sep 18
vs. Notre Dame
East Lansing, MI
8:00 p.m. ET

Sep 25
vs. Northern Colorado
East Lansing, MI

Oct 02
vs. Wisconsin
East Lansing, MI

Oct 09
at Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Oct 16
vs. Illinois (Homecoming)
East Lansing, MI
12:00 p.m. ET

Oct 23
at Northwestern
Evanston, IL
12:00 p.m. ET

Oct 30
at Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Nov 06
vs. Minnesota
East Lansing, MI

Nov 20
vs. Purdue
East Lansing, MI

Nov 27
at Penn State
State College, PA

What an amazing year this has turned out to be. I am not sure about all of you, but I feel as if I have aged at least 10 years watching all of the madness unfold in this tournament.

Bloodied, bruised, and injured our Spartans continue their march towards a 3rd NCAA Championship this weekend as they take on the “home team” in the Butler Bulldogs.

Your Bay Area Alumni Association will be holding a watch party this Saturday for the game at Pete’s Tavern in San Francisco. The game starts at 3:07pm PST, but if you want to get a good seat, please try to arrive at least 20-30 minutes early.

We are also asking that you please RSVP to the event if you plan on attending. This way, we can give Pete’s an accurate head count and they may be able to work with us on some additional specials. You can RSVP here on the site, on our Facebook page, or by emailing our Events Chairperson, Katrina Hammer.

We hope that you can make it to Pete’s this Saturday. I would also encourage Spartans from all over the Bay Area to try and make to Pete’s this Saturday. I know the East Bay, Peninsula, and San Jose can be a hike, but this is the Final Four and I think it would be great if we could at least 200 Spartans under one roof for this game. So please come out to SF, make a day of it, and watch MSU kick some Butler butt as they march on to Monday night!

Also, if there is a Monday night game, we will also be holding an event at Pete’s as well, and we will send the time out as soon as know the official game time.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you all at Pete’s on Saturday!

[Freep.com] Don’t bet against Tom Izzo and Michigan State this time of year. Raymar Morgan’s free throw with less than two seconds left gave the Spartans a 70-69 victory over Tennessee in the Midwest Regional final today, sending Michigan State to its sixth Final Four in 12 years and second in a row.

No team in the country — not North Carolina, not Kentucky, not UCLA — has done it better during that span. And all six trips have come under Izzo, the hard-nosed coach who preaches defense, rebounding and physical play.

Oh, and how’s this for some symmetry? This happens to be the 10th anniversary of the “Flintstones,” the team that gave Michigan State its second national title.

The Spartans, last year’s national runner-up, will be looking for title No. 3 next weekend in Indianapolis. They play Butler, sure to be the hometown favorite, in the semifinals Saturday night… [more]

By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer

The Spartans are headed to Indianapolis, Indiana, for the 2010 Men’s Basketball Final Four!

Join the MSU Alumni Association on the Official Final Four Tour and at the pre-game pep rally. Visit the official tour site for complete Final Four Tour package information. You may also call our special toll-free hotline at 1-888-471-3027.

As a reminder, the official tour DOES NOT include game tickets and MSU will not conduct a public sale of Final Four tickets.

Happy Saturday Bay Area Spartans!

What a special season this has turned into. We have been treated to quite a NCAA tournament and it just keeps getting better.

Your Bay Area MSU Alumni Club will be back at it again this Sunday morning as MSU takes on the Volunteers of Tennessee. MSU is looking to go back to Final Four since, well, last year! Sunday’s game will be at 11:20 a.m. and we will be hosting the event at Pete’s Tavern in San Francisco. We will have much more space at this location with the time of the game and the fact that we are the only team playing… So there will be ample seating for everyone. We are asking that you do arrive a little early if you want to secure a table for your group. We will be having some giveaways, and fun games for anyone who would like to attend.

In addition, since we hosting the event in San Francisco and we did not want exclude any of our friends in the Peninsula and San Jose. We will be hosting our own pre-game tailgate aboard CalTrain Sunday morning. We will be taking over train #425 as it rolls from SJ straight to SF (I will be boarding at the Sunnyvale stop at 9:14 a.m.). We will be taking over the 3rd car from the front where we can tailgate, drink some beverages, and get pumped up as we head to Pete’s which is only 2 blocks away from the train station in SF. If you are interested in taking the train and have any questions, please feel free to email me at prez@sfbayspartans.org I will answer questions all day Saturday and Sunday morning. I think the train will be a blast, looking forward to quite the morning!

So please join us this Sunday as MSU continues their march towards Indianapolis and history!

Hope to see you there!

Happy March Bay Area Spartans!

What an incredible finish! Now that MSU is back in the Sweet 16, your MSU Alumni Club will be hosting another Spartan Watch Party this Friday night as MSU takes on their opponent; the giant killers of Northern Iowa. UNI is fresh off their emotional win over #1 seed Kansas and are looking to advance against our Lucas-less Spartans.

We will hosting the game at Pete’s Tavern in San Francisco for a happy hour showdown that begins at 6:00 p.m. Friday night. The tip off is 6:27 p.m. PT, but we are encouraging everyone to come a little early to help procure spots at Pete’s as it will be crowded.

Also, if you do plan on attending, please make sure you post something to our website for this event or on the group Facebook page. This way we may be able to reserve tables for the group if we can guarantee a head count.

If you can’t make it to the City, you can be sure that there will also be Spartans at one of the other usual Bay Area locations.

Hope to see you at the game on Friday night as MSU rolls on to the Elite 8!

March (Madness) Happy Hour for Big 10, Big 12, and some Pac 10 schools. Starting in the bar area at 5:30 p.m. Come out and represent for the March Alumni Happy Hour. Event is open to alumni and friends of schools from the Big 10, Big 12, and Pac 10. There will be drink specials and door prizes!

Happy Weekend Bay Area Spartans!

Wow, what a finish ! Now that MSU has survived their opening round game, they have advanced to the round of 32 to take on Maryland Terpins this Sunday at 11:30 a.m. PT.

We will be having another watch party at Pete’s Tavern in San Francisco located on King St. along the Embarcadero. However, we are asking that if you would like to watch, please plan of getting there early, say 10:45 a.m. Pete’s will be busy and with Ohio State and Gonzaga playing around the same time, we need to be there early in order to secure a table. Also, if you do plan on coming please either post something to our website under this event at www.sfbayspartans.org or on our group Facebook SF Bay Spartans page. This way, if we get enough responses, we can call in advance tonight to secure some table space.

We would really like to try and get as many people as possible, so since tomorrow is going to be a great day, I encourage all of you to come and make a day of it. Come watch the Spartans in the morning, and then spend the day in the city!

Hope to see you there… GO GREEN!

Happy March Bay Area Spartans!

The rain has stopped, the days are longer and that can not only mean that there is madness in the air. This Friday the MSU Men’s Basketball Team begins their quest for a second straight Final Four as they take on the Aggies of New Mexico State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

Your MSU Alumni Association will be hosting a “happy hour” watch party this Friday afternoon at a new place: Zeke’s Sports Bar in San Francisco. Pete’s is so jammed during March Madness we thought this place a block away would be worth a shot.

Game time is a little early at 4:25pm, but we hope that many of you can try to think of a creative method to sneak out of work a little early to help root MSU on to victory.

Hope to see you there!

Zeke’s Sports Bar
600 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 392-5311

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