Anastasha Echavarri
News Editor

In past years, the Westford Academy spirit rally entailed intimidating seniors in black shirts tearing through the football field swarming around a truck while blasting music holding somewhat suggestive signs. This year, the rally was held in a calm setting off to the side of the school on a small field with the entire school crowded inside. Nothing on the field really screamed “intimidating” this year.

Due to events in the past, teachers prohibited backpacks from coming onto the field. Between the rumors of students throwing balloons full of maple syrup and the odd person sneaking in other illicit objects, administration completely refused allowing anything.

The events for this year included Tug-of-War, balloon popping, centipede races, potato sack races, sumo wrestling, melon tosses, and more. The senior class for what seems to be the first time ever, lost the Spirit Rally to the other classes.

An upset occurred when the sophomore class suddenly beat the juniors and seniors during Tug-of-War. After pulling the seniors off to the side, the entire sophomore class started cheering wildly while much of the senior class declared the match poorly called.

Overall, however, every class did extremely well during the events of the Spirit Rally. Many say that the reason the scores were a lot closer this year was because of the fact that the rally was much more tame this year.

A few senior girls ran onto the field during the rally and began to spray silly string over the students. Although the students deemed this act harmless, administration scolded the class severely, threatening to take away prom, and even the class trip to Disney this year.

Despite this outburst, the rest of the rally went on calmly and the events were successful. In Tug-of-War, the senior class defeated the freshman in merely seconds, ripping them off of the field. Other senior successes involve the star race. Pulling ahead of everyone else, the seniors, loosely tied together, went careening over hurdles and flipped over the table as the attempted to climb under it. Never stopping, the seniors were aggressive as ever and managed to win quite a few events.

The greased watermelon toss this year was quite the dramatic event between the junior and senior classes. Towards the end, only one junior team and two senior teams were left in the running. One senior, after missing a catch, broke the watermelon on the ground and the senior class broke into a frenzy. In the end, the junior class managed to win the watermelon toss as well as the sumo wrestling matches.

Ultimately, the Spirit Rally was extremely different than it has been in past years. Compared to classes before, the senior class was extremely tame and the worst thing they ever did was spray some silly string on fellow classmates. While some students hated the changes made to the rally, the rally was still successful and students still managed to show that they truly have school spirit.