Most eyes are focused on the the University of Michigan Spring football game next weekend and for those attending the game they can receive discounted hotel rates at the Lamp Post Inn using promo code SPRINGGAME.
But the weekend is not just about football. The University of Michigan Athletic Department labels the weekend Victor's Weekend and they have announced a full schedule of other activities and events going on over the three day weekend.
The Athletic Department website states:
| Time | Event |
| Saturday, April 14 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Ice Hockey Garage Sale, U-M Indoor Track Building |
| 9 a.m. | Women's Rowing vs. Oregon State, Belleville Lake |
| 10 a.m. | Victors Classic Alumni Flag Football Game, Michigan Stadium |
| Noon | Spring Football Scrimmage, Michigan Stadium |
| Noon | Men's Tennis vs. Nebraska, Varsity Tennis Center |
| 2:30 p.m. | Men's Lacrosse vs. Ohio State, Michigan Stadium |
| Sunday, April 15 | |
| 9 a.m. | Big House Big Heart Run, Michigan Stadium |
| Noon | Men's Tennis vs. Iowa, Varsity Tennis Center |
| 1 p.m. | Softball vs. Michigan State (Doubleheader), Wilpon Complex |
To obtain additional information on any of the activities go to the Athletic Department Website. If you are staying at the Lamp Post Inn, please get additional information on directions and accompanying activities by speaking with the front desk staff.
Each spring we are proud to welcome back a number of high school coaches that stay with us annually during theUniversity of Michigan Football Coaches Clinic. This year the clinic will be held March 29-31. This is the same weekend as the Ann Arbor Film Festival so it would appear to be a blockbuster weekend in Ann Arbor as well as at theLamp Post Inn.
For our long time coaching friends, please go onto our website and use the booking code COACH or call me personally to secure your bookings. It is going to be a really busy weekend and we want all of our returning friends to have their "home at the Inn".
Some of the important details from the announcement made by the athletic department included.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan head football coach Brady Hoke and the Wolverines coaching staff will host the annual Michigan Football Coaches Clinic Thursday through Saturday, March 29-31.
"The clinic is always a great time because you're surrounded by other coaches who enjoy teaching football and whose passion it is to help develop our youth," said Hoke. "This year's clinic lineup features some of the region's best high school and college football coaches, and our entire staff is available in chalk talk sessions and on-the-field demonstrations."
The clinic includes three days of Wolverines spring practices starting Thursday, March 29. The clinic will begin in Schembechler Hall on Thursday and continue in the U-M Indoor Track Building on Friday, with practices being held in Glick Field House. Saturday's clinic will be held in the Junge Family Champions Center and will conclude with practice at Michigan Stadium. Practice locations will be dictated by weather conditions.
On Thursday, members of the Michigan coaching staff will hold breakout sessions following practice. On Friday, select high school coaches will speak prior to lunch, and following a strength and conditioning overview by Aaron Wellman and breakout sessions with members of the video, equipment and athletic training staffs, members of the Michigan coaching staff will speak and run field demonstrations. Friday evening will include presentations by Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Mattison and offensive coordinator Al Borges and will conclude with chalk talks with the entire Michigan coaching staff.
The Lamp Post Inn will offer a special promotional hotel rate for all coaches attending the Michigan Coaches Clinic. Use the promo code COACH at the Lamp Post Inn website.
The Michigan men's varsity lacrosse team will play at The Big House on April 14. A nearby local hotel, The Lamp Post Inn will provide special hotel rates for the event. The lacrosse game will immediately follow the University of Michigan Spring football game at The Big House.
Thie is the first near that the sport has enjoyed varsity status. In May 2011 the University of Michigan Athletic Deparment announced that they were elevating both men's and women's lacrosse to a varsity sport,
Michigan is the first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conference school to add men's lacrosse since Notre Dame added the sport in 1980 and started competition in 1981. Michigan will join Ohio State and Penn State as the only schools in the Big Ten Conference to sponsor men's lacrosse.
U-M's club-varsity program claimed three of the last four Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) national championships (2008, '09, '10) and won Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association (CCLA) conference crowns in 11 of the past 13 seasons. The club program began in 1940 and was halted before World War II, but it restarted in 1965 and has been competing ever since. The program was elevated to club-varsity status in 2001.
The Lamp Post Inn is located less than 2 miles from The Big House and fans should go directly to the Lamp Post Inn website and use the promo code SPRINGGAME to receive special overnight rates.
The Wolverines Spring football schedule has been announced. Special hotel rates are available at The Lamp Post Inn using promo code SPRINGGAME.
The University of Michigan announcement made on the mgoblue.com website indicates that in addition to the traditional spring game to be held at 12:00 PM on Saturday, April 14, two other activities will take place at the stadium that day - the annual alumni flag football game at 10:00 AM and the intercollegiate lacrosse match between Michigan and Ohio State. The announcement also highlights several other events that weekend, including www.thebighousebigheart.com">The Big House Big Run for charity on April 15.
As released by the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The 2012 University of Michigan Spring Football Weekend promises to be an action-packed two days (April 14-15) of athletic competition for sports fans of all kinds. The 2012 Mott Spring Football Scrimmage sponsored by PNC Bank anchors the weekend festivities along with the inaugural men's lacrosse match-up with Ohio State immediately following the football scrimmage.
Team 133 will take the field for its annual spring scrimmage at noon EST on Saturday, April 14. Prior to the football team's debut, the Victors Classic Alumni Flag Football Game will be held at 10 a.m. inside the Big House.
Following the football scrimmage at 2:30 p.m. will be the "Battle in the Big House," which pits Michigan's first-year varsity men's lacrosse team against Ohio State.
Admission to all of the events Saturday at Michigan Stadium is free to the public. Fans can make a donation of choice to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital upon entering the gates of Michigan Stadium.
My family and I are proud to be the Innkeepers for the Lamp Post Inn, a small family owned hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Lamp Post Inn is located very near the University of Michigan campus and is in an ideal location for those visiting the University or hospitals. We are also less than two miles rom the University of Michigan athletic fields, The Ark, Hill Auditorium, the Michigan Theater and downtown Ann Arbor.
Our dream when we purchased the hotel was not to have the most exquisite hotel in town, but rather to own a hotel that was affordable but met the basics needs of visitors to Ann Arbor. We wanted to provide a convenient, friendly, clean accommodation at a fair price. We realized an older hotel could not hope to compete against the four star amenities of our pricey, and corporate franchised competition but we also believed that most people did not need the glitz, as long as they received value for their dollar.
When you visit Ann Arbor we invite you to stay with us and enjoy our hotel. We are proud to be a part of Ann Arbor, a world leader in academics, athletics and cultural events.