Rocky Mountain High School assemblies are full of school spirit. Students yell, cheer, dance, and stomp their feet to show that their grade has the most school spirit. Every year the seniors win a screaming competition when the Student Council members ask each grade to get loud. Is it because they have the most spirit because it’s their last year or do they win just because their seniors?

Rocky prides itself on its school spirit. At the assemblies, the StuCo members hype the crowd up as much as they can. They ask every individual class to get as loud as they can to show that their grade has the most spirit.

At the first assembly this year, the students leading the back to school assembly asked the freshmen to get loud and most of them screamed and yelled, then the sophomores were a little louder. They ran over to the juniors and they were already stomping their feet before they finished asking them to get loud. The juniors jumped and screamed as loud as they could, but the seniors were one step ahead of them. Jumping up and down and hollering like no other. The seniors obviously won.

At the homecoming assembly, some students from Stuco asked the grades to get loud again. This time, the freshmen went insane when they were asked to get loud. Sophomores screamed a decent amount, and the juniors and the seniors were as loud as they were at the first assembly. The winners, as always were the seniors. Did they deserve to win?

“I mean ninety percent of the time, seniors are the loudest,” said Student Council member Nic Chelales said, “It’s their last assembly, but there are times that it is the other grades, but we can’t give it to anyone else.”

“The first one of the year, the seniors were the loudest, but going throughout the year the seniors get less loud,” Junior Caleb Cruz adds. “They would win the majority [of the time] for actually being loud, but they always give it to the seniors because they are seniors.”

The freshman were extremely loud at the last assembly, louder than the first assembly. Could they have won? A group of freshman boys spoke about how they showed their school spirit at the last assembly. “Well, there’s a group of us that are loud, and our grade gets louder the more assemblies we have,” freshman Hudson Radcliff stated.

The group began to talk over each other, all basically saying the same thing. They were saying that they were loud enough to win, but they wouldn’t ever give it to freshman. “The last one we were pretty loud, so we could have won.” Radcliff said.

Yes, there’s no doubt seniors go crazy at assemblies, stomping and screaming, but they aren’t the only ones. Other grades have technically won, but it’s the seniors last year of high school. It’s almost an unwritten rule to say they win every screaming competition at Rocky assemblies, a tradition basically.

They have been winning for so long and they always will, even if they stop yelling when asked to get loud. Overall, it’s not a big deal. No students really seem to care about it. We go through four years of high school and then when we’re seniors we want to win. It’s cycle that won’t stop, but no one genuinely cares; it’s expected for them to win. So, go seniors!