The homecoming parade and pep rally were held on Friday, Sept. 30 towards the end of the day.
“The most difficult thing during the pep rally and parade was organizing each event and coming up with ideas for them. We worked really hard to make sure everything went smoothly and everything ended up working out great,” senior Student Council President Mayah Dorsey said.
The high school classes had about two hours to work on their floats. This year was the first time they worked on it during school hours so everyone had a chance to help out.
“It took my class around 20-30 minutes to set up but we spent the days before blowing up balloons during seminar,” sophomore Carys Price said.
“My favorite part was walking in front of our float, it felt like I was part of it and doing my role. My least favorite part was the amount of time between the pep rally and parade, I think it was too much time to work on the floats,” sophomore Emma Clements said.
The winning class of the homecoming float contest was the sophomores who won $75.
After the parade everyone returned back to the school for the pep rally. Senior Student Council members Alexis Delong and Avia Banks acted as Masters of Ceremony for the pep rally.
“I think the most challenging part of coming up with all the activities was deciding on the few that we did. We had a bunch of options but it was difficult deciding on which few we wanted to do,” junior Kinzie Rogers, who was chairman of the Homecoming committee.
There were many different games played, the candidates did a Hershey toss, the teachers passed a Lifesaver to each other on an uncooked spaghetti noodle, the student body played a pop the balloon game and Simon Says a pop the balloon game. The MCs lead the students to do a roller coaster and many different chants.
Banks, senior co-captain of the dance team, was in charge of coming up with a dance routine for the pep rally. It took only two days for her to figure out the dance.
“I definitely think the pep rally performance is one of the most creative routines I’ve come up with. The ripples were difficult to teach because I had a vision that was so hard to show the girls since I’m only one person and it took all nine of us. However, we worked hard on it and it came together exactly how I envisioned it. Choreographing this performance was so much fun because it was easy to dance to the music, and I definitely noticed that the rest of the team felt the same,” Banks said.
