By: Ainsley Northrop

Editor-In-Chief

From Mar. 3 to Mar. 7, the Los Gatos High School leadership team held its annual spring Spirit Week. Including everything from dress-up days and lunchtime games to a rally and formal dance, this semester’s Spirit Week was one to remember. 

Running a spirit week is a difficult task, entailing theme and game selection, hallway preparation, general oversight, and more. In the preceding weeks, students in leadership met outside of school to meticulously plan and work together. This semester, the Associated Student Body (ASB) leadership team decided on the overarching theme of nostalgia for this semester’s Spirit Week. Each class then chose an individual concept for their hallway section. To decorate the hallway per LGHS tradition, leadership students came to school the weekend before Spirit Week, dedicating a day to design, artwork, construction, and writing out every LGHS student’s name to include on the walls. 

Beyond decorating, leadership was responsible for running lunchtime games throughout the week. During each game, students from each grade competed for spirit points, which leadership tallied each day. Sophomore Spirit Representative Finley Bannon explained, “Each class is required to put on one game throughout the week, and our game was Hopper Ball Relay. So we had to find three people from each grade to participate.” After each game, the winners received both points and a prize, including treats like pizza, Crumbl Cookies, and Chick-fil-A.

At the end of the week, leadership arrived at school two hours early to prepare for the spirit rally, transferring hallway decorations to the bleachers, test-running rally activities, and ensuring everything would run smoothly. ASB Spirit Representative senior Allie Wen, who has been in leadership since her freshman year and MC-ed this year’s rallies, detailed, “Sophomore and junior year I was class spirit [Representative] and I was just managing my grade level’s hallways and games, but as ASB spirit this year, I’ve been in charge of more of the overall, whole school events, and incorporating the entire school into the rally and Spirit Weeks.” She continued, “Planning the rally involved a lot of coordination between different parts and teams from the school, like cheer, K-Pop Dance Club, and someone we find to perform the national anthem.” During the rally, senior Ryan Lin wowed the school as he played the national anthem on his violin, and Brass Chaos — a group that swings instruments over each other while blindfolded — left the stands begging for more. The rally concluded with a speech from Principal Dave Poetzinger and leadership’s announcement that, for the first time ever, the senior and sophomore classes tied for first place.

Spirit Week concluded with the newly instated Spring Formal, which replaced LGHS’s typical, themed Sadie Hawkins Dance. Although Spring Formal took a more elegant approach, it still honored the tradition of “girls ask guys.” 

Wen, reflecting on her final Spirit Week at LGHS, concluded, “I think the most rewarding part is just seeing it all come together and seeing people dress up and appreciate the hallways and have fun at the rally.” She advised students to “participate in the days, because even if it feels silly in the moment, they’re really fun memories to have and look back on.”