The entire Collegiate student body gathers for the annual Homecoming Pep Rally.
Students get decked out in green and gold.
SCA Vice Co-Chairs Caroline Hall and Travis Reifsnider start the festivities.
The Senior Spirit Squad leads the crowd in a cheer.
Spirit winners from each school division claim their prizes.
Each Collegiate varsity team performs a dance.
The Cougar field hockey team challenges the soccer team to a dance off.
Cougar boys' soccer team members show off their dance moves.
Girls in the Homecoming Court enter Seal Athletic Center.
Cougar football players form a tunnel for boys in the Homecoming Court.
Students show their school pride in Seal Athletic Center.
Middle School students await the start of the Pep Rally.
The Upper School gets into - and wins - the spirit competition.
The Varsity football team begins its skit for the audience.
Lower School students help "wake up" a sleeping Cougar football player.
Newly crowned Homecoming King Grant Villanueva high-fives the crowd.
The 2016 Homecoming Court poses at the Pep Rally.

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Homecoming Pep Rally Raises the Roof

11/4/2016

It felt as though the cheers of the entire student body (and faculty and staff) might blow off the roof of Seal Athletic Center at Collegiate School’s Homecoming Pep Rally this morning.

Students from JK to 12th Grade — decked out in face paint, costumes, crazy hats and green and gold hair and spirit wear — packed the new bleachers in Seal as the Pep Band pumped them up for Saturday’s big game. The Cougars take on St. Christopher’s School on Grover Jones Field at 1 p.m.

SCA Vice Co-Chairs Caroline Hall and Travis Reifsnider led the festivities as the spirit squad led the crowd in a “Hey, Hey, Hey” cheer and performed a choreographed dance. Varsity cross country, volleyball, tennis, field hockey and soccer teams then took center stage and each executed their own dances to wild applause.

As the varsity football team entered the building to more shrieks and screams, captains Jess Speight, Hatcher Chucker, Matthew Gelozin, Excellence Perry and Patrick Kirchmier addressed the crowd. They performed a brief skit in which they enlisted the student body to wake up a sleeping Cougar player to remove a St. Christopher’s player who had somehow entered the building.

Spirit winners were also chosen from the Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, and a cheer competition between divisions named the Upper School as champion.

Then the Homecoming Court was introduced: Olivia Jacobs, Jordan Marcus, Ah'rea Jones, Gwin Sinnott, Emily Stallings and Kate Surgner and Jess Speight, Grant Villanueva, Shaan Sharma, Excellence Perry, Barry Burgess and Reese Bowling. The two groups completed a fun-filled obstacle course involving tricycle riding, cream pie eating, balloon popping and bottle flipping. The boys were victorious and the girls were gracious in defeat.

To close the rally, the Cougar crowned Grant Villanueva Homecoming King. The Homecoming Queen will be crowned during halftime of tomorrow’s game.

Go Cougars!

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