Juniors Aren’t Joking

Abby Becker -Staff Writer
February 1, 2010
Filed under Features

Spirit Week is the culmination of weeks of planning, preparation, and practice. Some students have jokingly substituted Stress Week for Spirit Week, but the weeks of planning are what guarantees successful outcomes in boys’ poms, hallways, blue man stop, and lip sync. The junior class placed third over all last year and plan to bring their competitive edge this year.
Boys’ poms, choreographed by Abbie Clark and Liz Simakoff, have been practicing and progress has been successful.
“Progress is coming along really well. They seem to pick up the routine quickly. We just need to polish,” said Clark, choreographer.
Junior boys involved in boys’ poms are positive about their routine as well.
We are pretty far in the routine, and we are actually doing pretty well,” said Cooper Dunlap, class president.
Dunlap’s involvement as class president entails trying to get people participating in the small games each day and to help out wherever possible.
Work ethic that has been questioned in the past does not seem to be a worry for this round of boys’ poms. Practice time is valuable and cannot afford to be wasted.
“When we need to work, we work. When we have time to play, we play,” said Collin Henry.
Those involved in creating a masterpiece out of ordinary school hallways are not so positive about the current state of preparation.
“The problem we are running into is lack of class involvement. We are coming along as well as we can with the amount of people we have,” said Christin Palmer, coordinator of hallway decorations.
The junior class has chosen New Year’s for their hallway theme and is planning to illustrate New Year’s celebrations around the world.
“We are making monuments around the world and how they are decorated,” said Rebecca Lambert.
Blue Man Stomp is one of the junior class’s strongest events. Members of this event have chosen to keep the details of the performance on the down low until the actual performance.
“It’s kind of one of those games where it takes a lot of planning and comes together at the end,” said Matt Sugg.
Lip sync also involves many last minute adjustments to make the routine perfect. This year, Lizzie Nester, Lauren Derousse, Hannah Worrell, and Dani Roberts, are teaching forty girls a lip sync routine.
“It’s coming along a lot better than last year. We are working on perfecting it,” said Emily Wilson.
There are currently fifteen hours of practice left for the lip sync girls, which is not a lot of time to create a routine worthy of a standing ovation and victory over the senior class.
The junior class, being second on the high school hierarchy, has a desire to beat the senior class. Competition is tightest between the two oldest classes, and the juniors will not go down without a fight.