When coach Jenelle Louis heard her dog barking, not much after midnight, on Oct. 10, she knew instantly what was going on. She was being TP’d by the members of the Varsity Softball team.

“It is a tradition with the Softball team,” catcher Barbi Bateman said. “It is closure for the year because it was one of the last chances we would get to be together as a team.”

The softball players TP’d both Louis and coach Bob Dunahue.

“[The coaches] knew it was coming,” first baseman Savannah Teuscher said. “They were excited to see what we had done to their houses.”

While the coaches did have to clean up the toilet paper, they are not planning on reprimanding the girls for the TP’ing. Louis especially understands the importance of this tradition. She was the one who started the tradition in 1992, during her time as a student and Varsity Softball player at North.

“I just laughed,” Louis said. “I started the tradition a long time ago and you can’t really get mad at something you started.”

Unlike most years, the softball season was already over when the girls did the TP’ing. The team went 14-12 and hopes to keep their success, both on and off the field, going for next season.

“I think [the TP’ing] made us closer,” Teuscher said. “Maybe it won’t be as cliquey next year and the girls will all get along.”

By Paige Yungermann