Spirit week is now over, and after countless events, seniors reigned supreme. This past week included events that tested athletic, strategic, and teamwork abilities. Starting with Monday, the only event to be  played was dodgeball. The seniors and freshmen were paired together as were the juniors and sophomores. There were three rounds played, each ending  with the junior and sophomore teams on top.

“It felt very glorious to be able to play for our grade,” piano senior Paul Richter said. “We didn’t do that well, but we still had a pretty good game plan to gather all the balls and try to finish the other team quickly.”

On Tuesday the sports festivities took place out on the field, where students watched as their peers participated in such competitions as ring toss, hula hoop chain, frozen t-shirt, gumball on a spoon, and tug of war. In ring toss, where one person stood standing while the other threw massive rings on top of them, the seniors received first, the sophomores received second, the juniors got third, and the freshman came in  last.

“I got a lot of support from my peers when I was performing,” dance senior Morgan Seftel said. “I did a lot of upward throwing because Aaron [Nisbett] was very tall, and tried to hit him with the best accuracy i could.

In the hula hoop chain competition, where hula hoops were passed  down  a line  of students, the sophomores received first, the seniors received second, the juniors were third, and the freshmen were last. For the frozen t-shirt competition, in which a student from each grade had to unravel  a frozen t-shirt, the seniors received first, the juniors received second, the freshmen got third, and the sophomores came in last. In the gumball on a spoon competition, where students  had to balance  gumballs on spoons, the freshmen received first, the seniors got second, the juniors got third, and the sophomores came in last. For the last event of the day, each grade rallied  into teams to pull on a rope and carry the other team across a certain distance. In tug of war, the juniors received first, the seniors came in second, the sophomores were third, and the freshmen were last.

“It was terrible,” digital media freshman Caleb Holzhauer said. “I [tried]  to tell people to be coordinated and do a group pull every three seconds, but we ended up getting crushed, just how freshmen normally [do] .”

On Wednesday, in the sidewalk chalk drawing competition, the seniors claimed first, the juniors got second, the sophomores were in third, and the freshmen were in last. Then the generation dance took place, in which the seniors clenched first once again, the freshmen received second, the sophomores got third, and the juniors finished with last.

Thursday marked  the final day of events, finishing with the powderpuff basketball and cheers. For basketball, the juniors and freshmen joined teams to play against the sophomores and seniors. Before the match, each team gathered with one another and discussed game strategy.

“I’ve played basketball before [while] in middle school at Bak,” communications sophomore Valerie Betts said. “I hope [to] win. We’re with the seniors, so hopefully that gives us an advantage.”

The juniors and freshmen ultimately came away victorious against the sophomores and seniors.

“It was really great to play and be part of Spirit Week,” digital media senior Missy Muilenburg said. “[My advice] for future players would be to not hesitate to get up there and try your best, because even if you can’t play basketball very well it is still fun to try.”

Following basketball, the cheer teams took the court, with seniors coming in first, sophomores in second, juniors in third, and freshmen in last.

The events for this Spirit  Week were action packed and filled with intensity. For every match in which a team of students represented the grade levels, the winners received three  points and the losers received one. In individual grade competitions, the winner received four points, second place received three points, third place received two points, and fourth place received one point.  Come the end of the week the seniors walked away with 35 points, the juniors with  28 points, the sophomores with  24 points, and freshmen with  19 points.