Battle Of The Bands graphic for this year’s Greek Week. Photo courtesy of Emma Gillanders.
The University of Tampa (UTampa) Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) office is hosting Greek Week starting on Feb. 15 and ending with the Greek Variety Show (GVS) on Feb. 21.
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By Gloria Falach
The 2026 Greek Week theme is Battle of the Bands. The eight bands assigned to each team are Queen, Destiny’s Child, One Direction, Black Eyed Peas, ABBA, AC/DC, NSYNC, and Maroon 5.
Team Queen is Delta Zeta, Pi Kappa Phi, and Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.
Team Destiny’s Child is Sigma Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Team One Direction is Delta Gamma, Phi Delta Theta, and Chi Phi.
Team Black Eyed Peas is Sigma Delta Tau and Zeta Beta Tau.
Team ABBA is Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Omega.
Team AC/DC is Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Team NSYNC is Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), and Delta Upsilon.
Team Maroon 5 is Alpha Chi Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
The Greek Week philanthropy this year is The Merciful Project. All money raised by each team will be donated to The Merciful Project at the end of the week.
Emma Gillanders is an FSL programming intern, and she coordinates events for all students in Greek Life throughout the year. Planning Greek Week is the biggest part of her job.
Day one is the Greek Week baseball game, where students will participate in mini games during a UTampa baseball game. These mini games are a Fruit Roll-Ups eating contest, a corn on the cob eating contest, and a costume relay race for women.
Monday is Guess the Song and Pie a Captain. Gillanders will be playing eight songs, one from each different band, and teams have the chance to guess it right or wrong. They also have the opportunity to pie different team captains.
Tuesday is Sidewalk Chalk. Each team will sketch their own design related to their assigned band with chalk. Guests from The Merciful Project will be judging which team has the best chalk art.
Wednesday is Greek Field Day, which is a new event this year. There will be two events: a tag team relay race, where there’ll be three girls and three guys from each team participating. The second event will be the tug of war event that was done last year.
Thursday is Bubble Soccer, where each team will play soccer in inflatable bubbles. “This is a fan favorite event,” said Gillanders.
Friday is the Greek Development Workshop, where students get to work on their resumes and get extra career advice.
Saturday ends Greek Week with the GVS, where each team puts together an eight-minute dance according to their theme.
“Events each weigh a certain number of points,” said Gillanders. “With GVS points and proceeds from fundraising, all weigh into determining who will be the Greek Week winner.”
GVS is the most attended event of Greek Week. This year, GVS will be held in the Falk Theatre.
Each team takes the GVS dance seriously, with long practices as they get closer to show day. This allows relationships to be built between the different fraternities and sororities as they team up together.
“Doing GVS is a super fun experience that allowed me to get closer to my sisters and other people in other Greek organizations,” said Mackenzie Bell, Team NSYNC Spirit Captain. “I also love that the whole experience is for charity.”
As Greek Week approaches, all teams need to make sure they are as prepared as they can be to win.
“With a week left, we focus on cleaning and making the dance more polished,” said Maile Fisher, team ABBA choreographer. “Final touches are placed, and it all comes together.”
To find out which teams are at the top of the leaderboard and how much money is being raised during this year’s Greek Week, check out the FSL Instagram, @utampafsl.