This year, Robinson’s pep rallies and football game stands have been more packed than ever.
Over the past year and a half, students spent all their time in portables, and many weren’t participating in school spirit events or sports games. Many students lacked the school spirit that Robinson needed. With construction at Robinson being completed, for the most part, more kids have been showing up for football games as well as other sports events and have been dressing up more for spirit weeks, football games, etc.
“We have a new field this year and I feel like the team is better this year than last year so it’s more fun and exciting to watch. The spirit themes are also a lot better than last year so that has made me want to go to more games this year and participate in themes,” Casey Keith (’25) said.
Ticket sales for home football games this year have skyrocketed with around 900 tickets being sold almost every game as opposed to previous years there were around 600 to 700 sold. The highest ticket sale for Robinson at home for a football game was the Plant game with about 1800 tickets sold.
“I think it was harder to have more spirit events like the panther killing and also to do various things like posters and advertise the school spirit more and I think we can do all that a lot better now with the new school. I also think that more kids are showing up to different sporting events like football games, even kids I haven’t seen in a long time,” said Nate Clement, Junior Class President of the Student Government Association (SGA) and Vice President of Knightmare – the school spirit club of Robinson.
With the help of David Brown, Robinson’s Principal, and the new school, there’s now much more room for spirit here at Robinson.
“Now that everyone is out of those cooped-up portable’s students have been more open to the idea of joining school spirit clubs and helping to make posters and cheering at any sporting games and that’s exactly what Robinson needs after COVID-19 happened and the reconstruction of the school for the past years,” Brown said.
