Every year the pep assembly follows the same well known routine, the traditional walk of athletes, followed by the
cheerleaders’, Knightline’s, and Studline’s performances, spirit meter, and ending with games and the slideshow of photos of the year so far. This year Student Council decided to change things up a bit. There will no longer be a walk of athletes, instead a game will replace it where a representative from each sports’ team will compete. The Varsity Football team will be recognized during the assembly and coach Gregory will speak to get students excited for the homecoming football game.
“I think students will like the changes being made, we decided to recognize the Varsity Football players because they are what homecoming is all about,” Sponsor Jani Wilkens said. “What would homecoming be without the homecoming football game?”
Another change to the assembly is that only Varsity Knightline and Varsity Cheer will be performing. Having less teams perform means more time for spirit meters and games, which seem to be student body favorites.
“We like the doing the spirit meter and games because it gives everybody a chance to be involved, instead of sitting and watching,” Jani said. “We try to make each pep assembly as interactive and high entertainment as possible, and these changes have allowed us to do so.”
Some students are excited for the changes and eager to experience an assembly in a new way.
“I am really excited for the pep assembly, it sounds like they made good changes,” senior Emily Grueter said. “I am finally a senior and I am excited to see everyone dressed in purple to support our class.”
StuCo has been hard at work planning the assembly and making sure things run smoothly. Choir has donated working microphones for the assembly to avoid technical difficulties and pauses in the middle of sentences.
“Everyone has put in days of work into it, working out kinks in the changes we made and we hope that things will run smoothly and people will love the changes as much as we do,” StuCo president Rowan Pugh said.
