Hoards of girls huddle around their classmates. They are preparing to get down and destroy a game of football. For the first time in three years, StuCo has organized Powder Puff Football during Homecoming week. Junior Margaret Uhler wanted to immerse herself in the new Homecoming activities.

“I just wanted to participate in all of the homecoming events because I really like homecoming,” Uhler said. “I [have] never played football so I thought it would be fun.”

The girls who participated were not familiar with football before, so the boys on the football team donated their time to help them. Senior Piper Wright thought that the football players were a little too enthusiastic about the game.

“They tried to make plays for us to run, but we had no idea what they were doing so we just kept the coaches out and just decided to play any ways,” Wright said. “They were kinda mean, they got into it way too much.”

Though the junior team defeated the sophomores by default, Uhler’s team triumphed over the seniors in a fair match. Uhler gives credit to her coaches and their strategies.

“Thanks to our coaches we were able to create some plays and figure out a system to become champions,” Uhler said.

Kate Hodge wishes that girls would play football more frequently and hopes that the boys will feel the same about volleyball.

“Hopefully the guys could see how much fun ‘Voll-HE-ball’ is and want to start mixing around the sports,” Hodge said.

Wright hopes that the experience of swapping sports will give both groups a mutual understanding of what they experience.

“I think since we never got to do it [in the past], it was a good opportunity to see what the guys go through on a regular basis, but I wish we could do it more,” Wright said.