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Rising spirit: Students heighten team morale
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Students cheer on the varsity football team to seal another victory.
Written by Renee Denlar, Staff Writer
Pep rallies become more intense as this year’s football team brings in the wins. Students take pride in school spirit more than ever. With only one win last year, pep rallies held little audience and enthusiasm. With a new year, new changes and ideas brought out the confidence in students and football fans.
“This year the pep rallies have more spirit because the groups that put it together work more with each other,” senior Radnall DelaRosa said. “Because of this, there is more creativity in singing and dancing during the rally. Last year, since the football team didn’t play well, there wasn’t much spirit to encourage the players. But now, because of the upbeat teamwork, rallies seem to be influencing students to cheer on the players more.”
Spirit wear starts to heat up in style each week as the football team scores more touchdowns. T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, scarves and more continue to sell out each game day. The pep rally and game stands become swarmed with students as they learn how well their football team is doing. This drastic change in school spirit led to new fans and supporters in addition to the old.
According to junior Stephanie Martinez, she was barley interested in coming to any pep rallies before she came to this school. She now comes to every rally, thinking they host better ones than her last secondary school.
“At my other high school everyone just stood there at pep rallies,” Martinez said. “Here at PESH, the students are more involved. People actually wear spirit wear and cheer on their team. The cheerleaders and drill team are really cool too. They ask you to participate in the chants, so it gets the crowd pumped for the game.”
Sweat and blood spilled out on the field combines with screaming, nail-biting fans on the stands. As football influences students and teachers, a rise in spirit hits the school. With a close streak of football wins, fans become more anxious and excited for each game. The saying goes, “winning isn’t everything,” but it certainly is to these panther students!
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January 27th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner
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