Spirit Week

Every year, during the week of Homecoming, the school is turned upside down with the infamous Spirit Week. Spirit Week is a week in which class unity is promoted as the students battle for the Spirit Sword and bragging rights at having the most school spirit. On paper, it seems that this would be a simply fun week for everyone to relax. However, anyone who has endured this week would quickly learn that for many students this is a week full of stress as students strive to prove that their class is the most spirited.

This year was no different. Dressed as the classic toys of years past, the seniors walked on campus all but sure that they, like many senior classes before them would take home the sword and bragging rights. The seniors were surprised as the first day, Toy Day, went to the freshmen. This drove the seniors and the other classes to be better prepared and push hard to beat the lowly freshmen the next day during Compound Word Day. The competition was on among high school students. Commercial Day and Blue and Gold Day quickly followed with the students bringing out all the stops, including a gigantic moving elephant, a stomp routine, and an homage to the Roaring 20s. Everything that could be done was done.

The points were close and every class secretly or not so secretly thought that they would be taking the sword home from the Homecoming game Friday night. The games ended and the time had come to reveal which class proved to be victorious. The seniors fairly certain that they had won like many of the senior classes before them. As the places were announced, the sophomore class humbly accepted their fourth place finish to no one’s surprise. Next, to the surprise of the class came the juniors. The tension was building. The second place team was revealed as the seniors. To the shock of many of the people in the room, the freshmen class won. The smallest and youngest class in the high school had done what no freshman class had done before them…they won Spirit Week and the Spirit Sword. Their win was one for the books, but had been solidified since their first day’s win on Toy Day. They had never let up and never placed below second overall on any day of the week. The underdog took down the bigger and older classes by shear creativity, determination, and consistency.