On Friday, Sept. 26, students and faculty dress up in gold and cloth to transform into Egyptian royalty and mummies for the annual homecoming pep rally. Every year, homecoming court is announced in the gym before the King and Queen are coronated at the football game.
To get everyone hyped with school spirit, senior class president Dillon Colaso and junior class president Lane Virgil welcome the students inside the decorated gym to introduce the “most powerful ruler of the ancient world:” Pharaoh Heinsen and Queen Lucas, HL IB Math teacher and IB History teacher.
“This eagerness and passion for school spirit exemplified in our faculty and staff directly correlates to student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. With outstanding participation from our students AND faculty during hoco spirit week.” Colaso (’26) said.
While not all of the crowd is fully convinced to join the school spirit, Colaso introduces a component that might just do the trick. Robinson’s Spirit Boys perform Thriller by Micheal Jackson in a dedicated routine that wowed the audience.
“The spirit boys are important because they help bring more attention to the cheerleaders and their program, as they help run and teach us spirit boys, I believe that the cheerleaders need more recognition because they do a lot here at Robinson and they are legit a national level team,” Spirit boy Gavyn Montero (’26) said.
Afterwards, the Robinson cheerleaders showed the boys how it’s done by performing to a remix of Break my Heart by Dua Lipa.
After our first performances, the school now must compete. The first game is a human pyramid. Students volunteers of 5 seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshman have to work together to form a human pyramid in an upperclassman vs underclassman competition to recreate 3 different pyramids. The judges Heineken, Lucas and Kowalik judge each pyramid on a scale of 1-10 and ruled the upperclassmen as the winners.
The next game is the mummy wrap. The rules include 4 people per team with 3 people wrapping their 1 “mummy.” Once they get the approval from the judges that their mummy is good, the 3 team members carry their mummy across the gym and the first team to place their mummy in the casket wins. The freshman won by a mile with their mummy wrapped at lighting speed.
Before the last game is played, Colaso introduces the last performance done by the Kultural Dance Club. The dancers hype the crowd with their sharp dance moves to the song Jennie by like JENNIE.
“In the moment, performing it in front of a large audience was exhilarating and nerve-wracking, but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially since I got to share it with a great team that I’ve developed strong bonds with. This was my second time performing for the club, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the next ones,” Junior Phi Tran said.
The last game is the Nile river race consisting of 2 students from each grade who are given a stick to row across the Nile River (gym floor) on a raft (air mattress) while avoiding being capsized by the crocodiles. Fellow SGA [Student Government Association] membors wore alligator hats to push off the students.
After all the games, everyone was ready to hear the crowning of the Homecoming court:
9th: Madalynn Eichorn
10th: Zyla Floyd, Jon Luke Carlson
11th: Jala Hymes
12th Inner Court: Girls: Julia Garden, Izabella Gonzalez and Jasmyn Mitchner. Boys: Tiberius Reuss, Jaiven and Lane Ferris Bogsch
To finish off the pep rally, legendary IB Math Teacher Steven Smith is brought out to do the traditional class color war chant. With the final two being against the juniors and seniors, the seniors take the win.
Virgil (’27) reminds the school that the announcement of Homecoming King and Queen will be held later that night during halftime at the football game, and everyone leaves with school spirit flooding throughout.
