Homecoming royalty announced; more students included
October 14, 2019
Ten students walked away from Saturday’s “A Night on the Nile” homecoming with a royal title.
Those ten students were made up of four seniors and two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. While seniors and juniors traditionally made up homecoming court, the addition of sophomores and freshmen was new this year.
“The decision to add all four grades to court rather than just juniors and seniors was actually done by our sponsors Ms. Mc and Hazuka,” Senior Ashley Roth said. “They thought that adding the lower classman would increase our numbers in attendance and it did our numbers went up by 200 people and I think overall it got the other classman more involved in spirit week.”
Once all the votes were tallied, and the 27 candidates made their way on stage by grade level, senior Taylor Richman and junior Lizbeth Campuzano announced the winners.
King and Queen were seniors Jaylon Walker and Nuvia Olivar. Prince and Princess Gabriel Valadez-Robles and Olivia Rickley.
“It’s an honor to win and it feels very good to win, because it shows that a lot of people care about us at this school,” Rickley said.
Juniors Richard O’Connor and Joanna Castillo were named Duke and Duchess.
“Winning the Duke of Homecoming was really surprising and exciting,” O’Connor said. “I am really happy to win.”
The new titles added to court were Count and Countess for sophomores and Lord and Lady for freshmen. The Count was sophomore Tobin Wingender and Countess sophomore Gracee Lam; and the Lord was freshman Za’Kye Parrot and Lady freshman Dana Salazar-Salcedo.
“I feel like a bit special because it’s my first year, so that means I don’t really know anybody at this school,” Salazar-Salcedo said. “Being able to be the first one to win it just feels like good and it makes me feel like I’m doing something good at this school.”
Yesenia • Oct 14, 2019 at 4:57 pm
I remember when we had these titles while I was in school. I was sad when they took them away. Glad to see they’re brought back becuase it definitely gets more students involved.