School spirit comes out to play
Photo by Isabela Diaz
The SHS cheer team uses pom poms to get The Tribe excited for the game on Aug. 30.
How school spirit has changed over the years Isabela Diaz Staff Writer
It is a Friday night at the Scottsburg High School football game. The band can be heard playing all the way by the front entrance. Flashes of purple and yellow pom poms spread across the track. The bleachers are completely filled. “Touchdown!” IF WE COULD says the announcer. The crowd goes SHOW HALF THE ENTHUSI- wild. A cannon ASM THAT WE springs out from its DO AT FOOT- home, gaining more BALL GAMES screams and cheers from the hectic AT OTHER crowd. SPORTS...WE “I plan on havWOULD BE ing the same school MUCH MORE spirit as last year SUPPORTIVE.” by keeping our reputation as a loud, Allison Schmidt (10)
proud and respectful cheer block,”said SHS Pep Club president Macy Funk (12). While some may say our spirit has never faltered, others say our spirit fluctuates over the years. “I feel more people have school spirit [this year] as compared to last year,” said Jamison Barger (11), a member of Pep Club and a football player. Others say it has veered tremendously. “It’s night and day. It’s not even remotely close. It was not uncommon at all for us to get up to 3,000 people at a game,” said Adam DePriest, who graduated in 2007. Athlete Allison Schmidt (10), who plays soccer, thinks that SHS still has it, but the spirit is not equally distributed amongst the sports. “I think that we still have school spirit, but we just show it at football games. If we could show half the enthusiasm that we do at football games at other sports, like tennis, soccer or golf, we would be much more supportive,” Schmidt said. Photo by Isabela Diaz
On Aug. 30, The Tribe dressed up with a beach theme including pool noodles, Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses all around.
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With school spirit and student involvement on the rise, The Tribe, our student section, seems to multiply with every consecutive game. Game themes have become a regular occurence with an immense amount of participation from our cheer block. Yells are heard from across the football field by the immense number of students engaging with the cheer team. Although involvement is highly important for our cheer block, respect, not only for the opposing team, but for our school, is important as well. Jamison Barger (11), a heavily involved member of the Pep Club, highlights the amount of excitement the student section has brought to football games already this year. “I expect the cheer block to be a lot louder and more involved in all sporting events, not just basketball and football. A little of that responsibility is on the Pep Club in terms of hyping up those events and getting dates and times out to the student body. So far this year, however, I think
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the student body has done a better job at being more involved,” Barger said. Pep Club President, Macy Funk (12), has high expectations for our student section this academic school year. Not only is she anticipating great student involvement, Funk also expects proper behavior from all students. “I expect this year’s cheer block to continue being respectful, cheerful and loud. I expect them to be proud to be cheering on their Warrior and Warriorettes,” said Funk. With this great inclusion, however, comes great responsibility in part of the students. Proper behavior is necessary for The Tribe, not only because of disciplinary rules, but for the overall outlook and reputation of our school. “School rules do apply at school sporting events. We do
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