Green Wave to Be Prominently Featured in 2023 Mardi Gras Parades
Dec 20, 2022 | Football
New Orleans – In a season full of awards and accomplishments, the No. 14 AP / No. 16 CFP / No. 17 AFCA USA Today Coaches Poll-ranked Tulane Football team added a few more noteworthy accomplishments to the ledger on Tuesday. The team has been selected to ride in the 2023 Krewe of Freret Parade (February 11, 2023) and attend the annual post-parade event, Shorty Gras! (February 19, 2023). Head Coach Willie Fritz was also announced as the Grand Marshal of the 2023 parade and extravaganza by the Krewe of Endymion (February 18, 2023).
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Kern Studios has designed and will build a new specialty tandem section super float themed for the Tulane Green Wave's football team, highlighting the team's 2022 storybook season. Tulane won the American Athletic Conference's regular season and conference championship game and is set to face USC in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
Fritz and the team have had a truly historic and magical 2022 season. He defeated then No. 22 CFP ranked UCF on Dec. 3 by a 45-28 score to capture the school's first-ever American Athletic Conference (AAC) title and earn Tulane its first appearance in a major bowl game since 1940 with the upcoming trip to Arlington, Texas to play in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic against USC. The school's last appearance in a major bowl game was the Sugar Bowl. The win over UCF was his second straight win over a fellow ranked opponent. Overall, this year will be the school's 15th bowl appearance and the fourth time in the last five years that Fritz has led the program to a bowl game. The four bowl appearances under his watch make him the most successful in school history by that metric. Individually he moved into second all-time at Tulane this season in career victories and is up to 42 in his Green Wave career. His program had both the Most Outstanding Offensive Player (Michael Pratt) and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player (Nick Anderson) of the AAC Championship game. He also set a school-record and had the most All-AAC selections in the conference this season this season with 15 plus the league's Offensive Player of the Year (Tyjae Spears). The program earned 16 selections to Phil Steele's American Athletic All-Conference Team plus saw Spears earn Honorable Mention All-American honors. Additionally, the team saw a pair of players, Prince Pines and Kanan Ray, selected to the 2022 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American ® Division I Football Team.Â
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Fritz was named the 2022 AAC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career at the end of the regular season. It is also the first time that a Tulane coach ever been named the AAC Coach of the Year and only the second time overall that a Tulane coach has taken home the honor from a conference as Tommy Bowden was named the Conference USA Coach of the Year in 1998. Fritz has led Tulane to an overall 11-2 record including a mark of 7-1 in AAC play. The 11 wins this season is the second time in school history that the program has won 11 or more games and the first time since 1998. His seven wins in league play are the most for the program since 1934 and mark only the second time in the school's history that a Tulane team has won seven or more conference games in a single campaign. Tulane's first nationally ranking this year, 10 weeks ago, was a first for the program since 1998. The program also received its first-ever College Football Playoff Ranking this year and are currently placed 16th nationally in that metric. Tulane's AAC regular season title earned with the victory over Cincinnati on Nov. 25 was only the third in the history of the program and was the first time since the Conference USA Championship title in 1998. Fritz led Tulane to its first win over a fellow ranked opponent since 1956 with the victory over then No. 23 ranked Cincinnati. The win over the Bearcats ended their then 32-game home winning streak. Â
The nine-game win total improvement this year over last year is tied for the best-ever in a single season in FBS history along with Stanford (1940), Hawaii (1999) and Miami of Ohio (2010).
Fritz is currently a semifinalist or a finalist for five different national Coach of the Year Awards. He is also a candidate for the 2022 Dodd Trophy, the 2022 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach the Year Award, the 2022 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, the AFCA's 2022 National Coach of the Year Award and the 2022 George Munger College Coach of the Year Award.
Tulane's football team will take on the University of Southern California in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 2 in Arlington, Texas at AT&T Stadium at noon. Â If you still need tickets to the game, please log onto TulaneTix.com to order.
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TICKETS
Tickets for the 2022 season for football, men's and women's basketball and baseball can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
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Tulane University is located in the city of New Orleans. It is a city built on tradition and resiliency. The lessons Green Wave student-athletes have learned through their connection with this university and city have BUILT doctors, lawyers, business leaders, conference champions, all-conference players, All-Americans, professional athletes and NCAA tournament teams. The city of New Orleans has shaped us into who we are today. We are One City. We are Tulane. We are NOLA BUILT. Check out our story at NolaBuilt.com.
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Kern Studios has designed and will build a new specialty tandem section super float themed for the Tulane Green Wave's football team, highlighting the team's 2022 storybook season. Tulane won the American Athletic Conference's regular season and conference championship game and is set to face USC in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
Fritz and the team have had a truly historic and magical 2022 season. He defeated then No. 22 CFP ranked UCF on Dec. 3 by a 45-28 score to capture the school's first-ever American Athletic Conference (AAC) title and earn Tulane its first appearance in a major bowl game since 1940 with the upcoming trip to Arlington, Texas to play in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic against USC. The school's last appearance in a major bowl game was the Sugar Bowl. The win over UCF was his second straight win over a fellow ranked opponent. Overall, this year will be the school's 15th bowl appearance and the fourth time in the last five years that Fritz has led the program to a bowl game. The four bowl appearances under his watch make him the most successful in school history by that metric. Individually he moved into second all-time at Tulane this season in career victories and is up to 42 in his Green Wave career. His program had both the Most Outstanding Offensive Player (Michael Pratt) and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player (Nick Anderson) of the AAC Championship game. He also set a school-record and had the most All-AAC selections in the conference this season this season with 15 plus the league's Offensive Player of the Year (Tyjae Spears). The program earned 16 selections to Phil Steele's American Athletic All-Conference Team plus saw Spears earn Honorable Mention All-American honors. Additionally, the team saw a pair of players, Prince Pines and Kanan Ray, selected to the 2022 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American ® Division I Football Team.Â
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Fritz was named the 2022 AAC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career at the end of the regular season. It is also the first time that a Tulane coach ever been named the AAC Coach of the Year and only the second time overall that a Tulane coach has taken home the honor from a conference as Tommy Bowden was named the Conference USA Coach of the Year in 1998. Fritz has led Tulane to an overall 11-2 record including a mark of 7-1 in AAC play. The 11 wins this season is the second time in school history that the program has won 11 or more games and the first time since 1998. His seven wins in league play are the most for the program since 1934 and mark only the second time in the school's history that a Tulane team has won seven or more conference games in a single campaign. Tulane's first nationally ranking this year, 10 weeks ago, was a first for the program since 1998. The program also received its first-ever College Football Playoff Ranking this year and are currently placed 16th nationally in that metric. Tulane's AAC regular season title earned with the victory over Cincinnati on Nov. 25 was only the third in the history of the program and was the first time since the Conference USA Championship title in 1998. Fritz led Tulane to its first win over a fellow ranked opponent since 1956 with the victory over then No. 23 ranked Cincinnati. The win over the Bearcats ended their then 32-game home winning streak. Â
The nine-game win total improvement this year over last year is tied for the best-ever in a single season in FBS history along with Stanford (1940), Hawaii (1999) and Miami of Ohio (2010).
Fritz is currently a semifinalist or a finalist for five different national Coach of the Year Awards. He is also a candidate for the 2022 Dodd Trophy, the 2022 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach the Year Award, the 2022 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, the AFCA's 2022 National Coach of the Year Award and the 2022 George Munger College Coach of the Year Award.
Tulane's football team will take on the University of Southern California in the 87th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 2 in Arlington, Texas at AT&T Stadium at noon. Â If you still need tickets to the game, please log onto TulaneTix.com to order.
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TICKETS
Tickets for the 2022 season for football, men's and women's basketball and baseball can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow Tulane football on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. Follow Tulane Athletics on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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WE ARE NOLA BUILT
Tulane University is located in the city of New Orleans. It is a city built on tradition and resiliency. The lessons Green Wave student-athletes have learned through their connection with this university and city have BUILT doctors, lawyers, business leaders, conference champions, all-conference players, All-Americans, professional athletes and NCAA tournament teams. The city of New Orleans has shaped us into who we are today. We are One City. We are Tulane. We are NOLA BUILT. Check out our story at NolaBuilt.com.
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