Battle High School has been around for 12 years, and during that time Battle High School school spirit has affected and continues to affect athletes.
Some people think school spirit is not important and some think that football games are an example of a time where school spirit is most visible in people. Showing up for the games, participating in the themes, wearing Battle colors, making posters, talking about it and getting the word out to others are all examples of how people in our community can show school spirit.
Not only do the players on the field notice the effect of school spirit but so do the students in the stands.
“The more people that show up to the game the more hype the players get,” sophomore volleyball player Lola Pemberton, who also attends football games, said.
School spirit can affect players’ performance and behavior on and off the field.
“I can only compare it to when I was in school,” football Assistant Coach Aaron Walbrecht said. “The students were involved from making posters and putting them into the school to having rallies […] to in the gym to, you know, just being excited about the game even if you’ve lost the previous week. To now it’s just like another game with no posters. There’s no nothing that I have noticed going on […]to support the kids you know on the field and then when it comes to game day […] there’s only a handful of students in the audience.”
On the contrary, some people think that we do have school spirit. Sophomore Aaron Taylor says that we have a lot of school spirit.
“I would say we have lots of school spirit at the games especially with all the themes we have and the assemblies that hype up the players and teams, and I think spirit affects turn out because it keeps our players motivated and hype,” sophomore Aaron Taylor said.
School spirit or the lack of is not only on the field or in the stands it also gets brought into school and into class.
“Off the field, it does have a little bit of effect,” football Head Coach Shawn Gaines said. “Those guys have to have different classes and lunch and all this and that with the rest of the students. So that, you know, when they hear certain stuff in the hallways after we went success or loss, you know, that does impact the way that they think and react later on.”