PHOTOS: UCF students celebrate homecoming tradition Spirit Splash 2019
Thousands of UCF students surround the reflecting pond on campus, a landmark that is typically off limits except for once a year for Spirit Splash. This homecoming tradition allows students to charge into the pond, and gives them a chance to catch homecoming rubber ducks.Â
Students wait around the reflecting pond while student volunteers wearing bright yellow shirts are the only ones allowed in the water at Spirit Splash on Friday.Â
UCF mascot Knightro pumps up the crowd with UCF cheerleaders as thousands of participants wait on the outskirts of the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. Prepared for the splash, Knightro wore his swim trunks to the annual event.
UCF students and others wait around the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. The clock was counting down for the charge as students, faculty and alumni prepared before the stampede.Â
Thousands of UCF students charge into the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. The Marching Knights played their instruments as the pond flooded with people seeking this year's limited edition rubber duck.
UCF students run toward the Reflecting Pond during last year's Spirit Splash. This year, the annual homecoming tradition, along with many others, has been suspended due to COVID-19 precautions.
Thousands of UCF students charge into the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. The Marching Knights played their instruments as the pond flooded with people seeking this year's limited edition rubber duck.
UCF students fill the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. Spirit Splash is an annual UCF homecoming tradition where students and fans can enter the reflecting pond in front of Milican Hall and show their UCF spirit.Â
Thousands of UCF students charge into the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. The Marching Knights played their instruments as the pond flooded with people seeking this year's limited edition rubber duck.
UCF cheerleaders perform stunts at Spirit Splash, a UCF homecoming tradition, on Friday.Â
UCF students wait in the reflecting pond for rubber ducks to be thrown to them at Spirit Splash on Friday. Spirit Splash is an annual UCF homecoming event where students get a chance to take home a rubber duck.
UCF mascot Knightro crowd surfs with the students waiting in the reflecting pond to catch the homecoming rubber ducks at Spirit Splash on Friday.Â
UCF students raise up their hands as they anticipate the homecoming rubber ducks being thrown into the reflecting pond at Spirit Splash on Friday.
UCF mascot Knightro makes an appearance at Spirit Splash, a UCF homecoming event, on Friday.Â
UCF student throw their hands up in hope of catching a rubber duck at Spirit Splash on Friday. The pond was flooded with hundreds of participants while the homecoming court and football players threw ducks in the crowd.Â
UCF Interim President Thad Seymour wears his duck hat for the Spirit Splash festivities on Friday. Students charged in the pond as a stampede in hopes of being lucky to catch the 2019 limited editing rubber duck.Â
Rubber ducks are laid out to be thrown into the reflecting pond filled with UCF students for Spirit Splash on Friday. Spirit Splash is a UCF homecoming tradition where students and fans can enter the pond in front of Milican Hall and show off their UCF spirit.Â
UCF cheerleaders throw homecoming rubber ducks into the crowd of thousands of students who are waiting in the reflecting pond at Spirit Splash on Friday.
UCF students reach for flying rubber ducks being thrown at Spirit Splash in the reflecting pond on Friday. Spirit Splash is a UCF homecoming tradition where students and fans can enter the pond in front of Milican Hall and show their UCF spirit.Â
UCF mascot Knightro uses a selfie stick to take a selfie with students in the reflecting pond at Spirit Splash on Friday.Â
UCF students raise their hands in the air in hopes of catching a duck thrown by UCF Interim President Thad Seymour at Spirit Splash on Friday. This is Seymour's first Spirit Splash with the school as interim president.Â
UCF students raise up their hands as they anticipate homecoming rubber ducks being thrown into the reflecting pond at Spirit Splash on Friday.Â
UCF football player Anthony Roberson (89) throws homecoming rubber ducks into the reflecting pond filled with students at Spirit Splash on Friday.Â
UCF mascot Knightro pumps up the crowd of students waiting to receive a limited edition rubber duck at the reflecting pond for Spirit Splash on Friday. Prepared for the splash, Knightro wore his swim trunks to the annual event.
Holding three rubber ducks in her hand, Jasmine Brown, senior biomedical major, stands on the right side of the reflecting pond at Spirit Splash on Friday. Brown said the past two years she was unable to obtain a lucky duck, but this year she was very excited about the turnout. "I plan on keeping one duck and giving the other two to my friends," Brown said, "I'll probably come back next year to get another duck as tradition."
A UCF student celebrates after the throwing of rubber ducks by sitting on the shoulders of another and raising her duck in the air at Spirit Splash on Friday. More participants left the event without a duck, than those who were lucky enough to catch one.
A UCF student celebrates after catching a duck at Spirit Splash on Friday.
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