As part of Iowa State’s 1995 Parent and Family Weekend, participants of an event called “Meet the Cyclones” will get to play games they’ve never played before.

The games will take place at the Lied Recreation and Athletic Center on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 10-11:30 a.m.

Jim Rauschenbach, assistant professor in the department of Health and Human Performance at Iowa State, invented the nontraditional games. Last year, about 60 people participated in the games. This year, 400 are expected.

“It should be a lot of fun, especially with so many people coming,” Rauschenbach said.

This year Meet the Cyclones is being combined with “Family Games and Challenges.”

“This year we are combining the two events, so maybe that is the reason so many people are planning to participate,” said Amy Jurovich, nontraditional liaison co-chair of Parent and Family Weekend ’95.

Seven game stations will be set up, with each station having two to three activities. Participants will move through the game circuit, making a full rotation.

Because it is part of Meet the Cyclones, 38 ISU athletes are scheduled to participate.

“I don’t know exactly which athletes will be there,” Rauschenbach said. “It won’t be the football players, though.”

Fourteen student volunteers will be assisting Rauschenbach with the games Saturday.

Some games include variations of one-on-one tug-of-war, island vacations, buddy walkers, stump stand and salamander.