School spirit comes out to play

School spirit comes out to play

How school spirit has changed over the years

Isabela DiazStaff 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!” says the announcer.

The crowd goes wild. A cannon springs out from its home, gaining more screams and cheers from the hectic crowd.

“I plan on having the same school spirit as last year by keeping our reputation as a loud,

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.