The Crookston High School’s Homecoming is this week, starting on Monday, October 3, and going until Friday, October 7, with each day having its own theme for the students to dress up and show their school spirit along with other activities they can partake in throughout the week.
To start the week off on Monday, the school will have “Jersey Day,” where students are encouraged to wear the jerseys of their favorite sports teams on any level (high school, college, or professional). But along with that, Monday will also hold the coronation of the Homecoming King and Queen, which will be held in the Crookston High School Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. The Homecoming King and Queen candidates are;
Queen Candidates: Libby Salentine, Stella Duden, Hannah Brouse, Carly Brown, and Abby Borowicz
King: Tanner Giese, Jaren Bailey, Jack Doda, T.J. Sanchez, and George Widman
Tuesday will be a new event for the school called “BBQ Dads vs. Soccer Moms,” where the students can dress up as fathers cooking a barbeque or like soccer/sports moms rooting for their children, with the best-dressed students getting a prize for their creativity. “We’ve heard it’s been done at a couple of other schools, and we thought we’d give that a try, and what I understand is that you can dress up as a BBQ dad with your apron and chef’s hat on. Then you have the soccer moms. You can dress up as a mom that cheers with whatever else they have,” Crookston High School Student Council Advisor Linda Morgan explained. “They’re going to have fun with that, and we’re doing something different with that this year. I’m going to have a gift for the 9th-12th graders, a boy and a girl, and I’ll have the teachers send me a name of who’s the best-dressed, where they’ll get a little prize. And Mr. Junkermeier, our Junior High Student Council member, will pick the winner for the graders.”
Wednesday will have a similar situation for the students dressing up, as the theme will be “Decades Day,” where the students get to dress themselves in outfits from any specific decade (the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc.) and will again give prizes to the two best-dressed students from 9th-12th grade and 7th-8th grade. The school will also follow its Early Out Schedule to complete all of their classes to have the students more involved with the activities during the day and hold their Power Puff Football games for the 9th through 12th-grade girls at 1:00 p.m. “Every day, we’re going to get all of our classes in, and first we’ll start at 1:00 p.m. with the 9th grade vs. the 12th-grade girls, and then we’ll have the 10th grade vs. the 11th-grade girls, and the final game will be whoever of those winners are for the championship,” Linda Morgan explained. “The girls have a blast with this, of course. We have a couple of boy coaches that coach each of the girls, and the girls all get their own T-shirts for their team.” While the Power Puff teams play each other, the other teams will be in a Dodgeball Tournament in the High School gymnasium, and the 7th-8th graders will watch the movie Minions in the High School Auditorium.
Thursday will be a classic favorite for the school with Color Wars Day, where each grade level will be assigned a certain color for them to wear. The 7th graders will wear green, the 8th graders will wear yellow, the 9th graders will wear red, the 10th graders will wear blue, the 11th graders will wear white, the 12th graders will wear black, and the staff will wear purple with pink lettering. With this, they’ll also get to dress up their hallways where their lockers are. However, the seniors will get to dress up the Commons area as well since their lockers are in a place where there’s not much action. After the students check into their classrooms at 8:15 a.m., they are invited into the gymnasium to play and watch the 9th-12th grade Boys play in a Volleyball tournament between the classes, with the 7th-8th graders cheering in the stands. The winning class will then play against the school staff, and after that match, there will be one final game between the senior boys against the senior girls on the Volleyball team. After the games, classes will begin at 10:15 a.m., and the school will follow its Late Start Schedule until the end of the day. At the end of the day, the students will be required to tear down all of the decorations they put up at the start of the day.
To close out Homecoming Week, the school will follow its Assembly Schedule, where the classes will be shortened to 40 minutes each instead of 50, but in the morning, at 7:30 a.m., the Senior-high and Junior-high Student Council students will have Tattoo and Face painting for $1 in the High School Commons. The school will end the day at 2:30 p.m., where they’ll go into the High School gym for their Homecoming Pepfest. “That’s when we have more teams, and they get to do a little lip-synch contest. I’ve got about five groups doing that. I wanted to get it back, we haven’t done it for a few years, and I told the captains of these teams, “We need to do this to get this back a little bit more here, to get the PepFest going more,” Morgan explained. “Then we will have our senior athletes introduced, and that will get everybody going for the big game, which will start at 6:00 p.m. on that Friday night. The dance for the 9th-12th graders will start at 9:00 p.m. and go until midnight, with it being $10 per person.” The Homecoming Dance will feature the band, The Undertakers, providing the music for the dance with chaperons taking breathalyzer tests for the students.
We will have pictures of the students and all of the major events happening in Homecoming throughout the week, so stay tuned to kroxam.com for pictures and results of the week.
This week’s full homecoming schedule is down below.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
- Jersey Day
- Coronation for Homecoming King and Queen- 1:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
- BBQ Dads vs. Soccer Moms Day
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
- Throwback Day
- Powder Puff Games- 1:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
- Color Wars Day
- 7th grade- Green
- 8th grade-Yellow
- 9th grade- Red
- 10th grade- Blue
- 11th grade- White
- 12th grade- Black
- Staff- Purple/Pink
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
- Pirate Pride Day
- Tattoo and Face painting- 7:30 a.m. in the High School Commons
- Pepfest- 2:30 in the High School Gym
- Football game vs. East Grand Forks- 6:00 p.m.
- Homecoming Dance-9:00 p.m. to midnight (9th-12th grade)
