Spirit Week Pep-Rally Finish’s Off Another Great Catholic Schools Week

Grace Toups, Junior Staff Writer|February 3, 2015

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In order from left to right, Freshman, Junior, Senior and Sophomores line up to take a school wide photo to end the sprit week activity

Every Academy girl knows of the famous annual spirit week pep rally that finishes off a great Catholic Schools Week. The pep rally is filled with singing, dancing, chants and costumes that will knock your socks off.

It starts off with little acts performed by each grade which all have to do with problems freshman stress about, including, first day of school, first football game, night of the rivals game and getting asked to homecoming. The seniors had a humorous performance on typical examples of girls getting asked to homecoming for each grade level, which added 200 points added to their score to put them in the lead.

Seniors Jaycie Valdez, Lizzie Farley, Jourdan Collins, Sophia Guerra, led by Kierstin Mayor perform their skit to show what it is like to be asked to homecoming in all grade levels.
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Seniors Jaycie Valdez, Lizzie Farley, Jourdan Collins, Sophia Guerra, led by Kierstin Mayor perform their skit to show what it is like to be asked to homecoming in all grade levels.

Senior and pep rally coordinator Cara Dawson shared “We’ve kind of always done the same thing to truly carry on the great tradition of spirit week. It’s always a great rivalry between grades.”

Then it goes into singing and dance rivalries between each grade.  This intense challenge keeps every girls on their toes and gives the girls a chance to show off their sweet moves to add points to their scores. It’s a classic fill in the lyrics to ‘Friday’ by Rebecca Black and an interpretive dance to ‘Single Ladies’ by Beyonce.  The winner from each grade gets 10 points added to their final score.

Sophomores Alison Wehle and Karrianne Buser compete against the Freshman Sydney Beil and Anne Marie Collins to Gwen Stefanis ‘Sweet Escape,’ which the sophomores won to add 10 points to their score.
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Sophomores Alison Wehle and Karrianne Buser compete against the Freshman Sydney Beil and Anne Marie Collins to Gwen Stefanis ‘Sweet Escape,’ which the sophomores won to add 10 points to their score.

“Honestly dancing in front of the whole school doesn’t bother me at all, I always have so much fun doing it. It was awesome having everyone cheering for me and I knew everyone had my back.”  Junior Alejandra Lozano shared. “My favorite part of the pep-rally would have to be the dance off because it was fun to watch all of my friends act crazy in front of the other grades.” Added sophomore Sophia Mastro

At the end points are added up by judges Ms. Filocco, Mrs. Kearney and Mrs. Nazaretian.  It was a close race between all grades. The final scores came out to the Freshman with 1240 points, Juniors with 1170 points, Sophomores with 1370 points,  and the winners, the seniors, with a total of 1530 points!!

Seniors cheering on their fellow classmates while they compete in dance competitions
Pam Doherty
Seniors cheering on their fellow classmates while they compete in dance competitions

So congratulations to the Seniors for taking away first place with a score of 1530.  A special thanks to Golden Girls Cara Dawson, Colleen Doherty and all of the golden girl spirit week committee for putting on a great Catholic Schools Week filled with fun and laughter for each grade.