Do students who are not athletrs have to buy tickets to watch their college team play? If yes do students get a discount and are tickets affordable at colleges like Villanova?
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Depends on the school and the sport. My daughter is an athlete and she gets free tix to the football games and basketball games, but basketball games are by lottery. She get better chances in the lottery if she goes to more free ticketed sporting events.
I would expect that students that are not athletes get reduced price but not free tickets to the game at big athletic schools.
Each school is different. Looks like Villanova has a lottery process for basketball and open admission with student ID at other sporting events. This was the top result when I did a google search for “Villanova student tickets”.
https://villanova.com/sports/2018/6/18/tickets-ticketdistribution-html.aspx
My kids both had admission to all sporting events included in the student fees - just show an ID. One was a D1 school and one was D2. The one at a D2 school actually got ‘points’ toward a freshman required course for swiping her ID at a sporting event (and at other activities).
At most schools, students can buy a student ticket at a reduced price if a ticket is even required. Sometimes it is lottery for those if there aren’t enough tickets for all students (hockey, basketball, football at some schools). At most schools, most sports, are thrilled to have students just show up.
Many years ago, I went to a football game at Nebraska. The sorority had 100 members, and they were telling us how they got everyone into the game. The house owned 8 tickets, 4 members were cheerleaders, another handful were in the band, some went on their family’s tickets, some went as dates of fraternity boys, etc. I think some even worked as vendors at the stadium. It happened to be homecoming weekend so some were on the homecoming court. It seemed that anyone who wanted to go got to go.
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