Members of the senior class council and SGA walk around in their crowns, displaying their class theme “senior royalty” as they decorate their section of the gym for the pep rally.

 Once a year, Dreyfoos students gather to show their school spirit by competing in competitions and dressing up daily for class spirit, all leading up to the annual pep rally. What goes unnoticed, however, is the time, work and energy put into each day of spirit week and the pep rally by Student Government Association and the class councils individually.

“SGA is the group that handles all of the activities that involve the whole school like spirit week,” visual senior and SGA co-president Juan Granados said. “We have been planning spirit week since Nov., so there has been a lot of time put into this week by itself. From behind the scenes, there is a lot that SGA and the class councils have to coordinate.”

Prior to spirit week, each class council was given a roster for each day of spirit week with all of the events that required a certain amount of participants. It was up to the class councils to recruit members of their class to compete. Rosters were required this year in order for SGA to know who is competing in advance so there were no discrepancies between participants.

This year, the freshman class had an obvious breakthrough. Typically, the freshman class is unaware of the happenings during spirit week, but this year, with the “Fresh Meat” pep rally theme, they proved the other classes wrong in their judgment.

 “The freshman class council contributed a lot of time and effort into preparation for spirit week,” visual freshman and class co-president Shannon Cruz said. “The [freshman class council] stayed after school and missed multiple lunches to put together decorations, find participants for events, fundraise and make sure the freshmen did as well as possible in every event.”

 As for the class of 2016, the sophomores were prepared for each day of spirit week and the pep rally, rocking the military theme.

“Our obligation as the sophomore class council was to have this year be student-driven,” communications sophomore and class co-president Bennett Morgan said. “We started pitching theme ideas for the pep rally on day one of the school year. We narrowed down some options and proceeded to let our classmates vote on it. In the end, they chose the military theme.”

  Rocking red at the pep rally and sporting the circus theme, the junior class served as great competition for the other classes throughout all of spirit week.

 “I am so grateful to have such a hardworking and dedicated class council that has been preparing for several months,” communications junior and class co-president Morgaan Jessell said. “Mainly by establishing a theme and of course planning the decorations, I think it is so important to utilize all the talented students we have here.”

With the senior class’ pep rally theme as “Senior Royalty,” they brought a lot to the table by taking wins in events such as the generation dance and musical chairs.

 “Spirit week took a lot of preparation and hard work,” communications senior and class co-historian Siena Del Mastro said. “As a senior class council, we had to work in tandem with the senior class to ensure that everything during spirit week went smoothly.”

Without the hard work and dedication of both the class councils and SGA, the highly anticipated event known as spirit week would be unable to occur. The months of preparation brought on to create class dances and invent pep rally themes paid off by bringing Dreyfoos together as a whole.