“Exhilarating, entertaining, and hilarious,” says Rosalinda Canchola, a tennis player and senior, on Selma High’s homecoming rally.
Selma High held its homecoming rally on October 17th, a warm Friday, the same Friday of which held an hour-long lunch with food trucks, and later, of course, the football game, where the Homecoming Queen and King was named.
The rally started off with cheer performing and then moved on to this “tombstone” activity, in which the cheerleaders and football players competed in an almost musical-chairs-like game, where instead of chairs, it was tombstones (stools with paper tombstones taped onto them) and the players were blindfolded. The leadership team was moving the stools around, so it was all sorts of difficult.
To keep up this spooky theme, leadership called forth volunteers from the crowd to do this crowd-surfing activity with inflatable coffins and fake corpses. This was also a competition, a race between freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The goal was to get the coffin to the back wall of the bleachers before the other grades. The seniors won.
Immediately afterward, the top three Homecoming Queen and King candidates performed their dances and immediately after that, the candidates participated in an activity versus the teachers. And, seemingly, the dancing continued here! In this activity each person had a balloon tied to one of their ankles and they were supposed to try and pop the balloon of the members from the opposing team.
And, to end the event, the choir sang Selma High’s alma mater.
