During the week of February 9th, Worthington Christian high school students compete against each other to win in the most anticipated spirit event of the year: Clash of the Classes!Each day, there is a certain theme where the freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors try to outdo one another for the most participation points.
Every day, each class can earn points through the coin drive, class participation, a contest for best dressed students overall, and attending specific school events.
Monday’s theme was Warrior Spirit day. Wearing any Warrior t-shirt or the colors red, yellow, black, and white will earn you participation points for your class. Spirit day is the one day that receives the most participation. “Spirit day is my favorite day,” says junior Erin Szabo. “I like going all out with the face paint and glitter; I love to support the school!”
As far as Monday’s results are concerned, the sophomores led with the most participation points; with the freshman following close behind. Best dressed for girls was freshman Nicole Parsell, and for the guys it was sophomore LC Warren.
“Blast from the past” was the theme for Tuesday, where each class is assigned a certain time era. The freshman were 50’s; sophomores dressed in the 60’s; juniors were the 70’s; and seniors were 80’s. Blast from the past was a new theme for Worthington Christian and it seemed to be well liked: “I think my favorite theme was Blast from the Pat day: it was pretty cool,” said secretary Mrs. Dunn.
Seniors once again led Tuesday with Participation points, but the sophomores and freshman took best dressed. Juniors kept falling further and further behind as the other classes raced for the lead.
Wednesday was the day when you could wear whatever you want and it wouldn’t matter: in fact, it would get your class points. “Clash Day” was the theme, which meant wearing mismatched clothes and crazy hairstyles. Of course, this was easier for girls to do instead of guys, because obviously girls can do more with their hair.Once again, seniors earned the most points overall that day. Andrew Protopapas won “best- dressed” for the guys, and the seniors had the highest participation as well.
On Thursday, everyone was supposed to wear his or her favorite sports jersey. It could be from any team just as long as it was a jersey. “Jersey Day” was popular among students and teachers: “My favorite was jersey day, because I didn’t feel like I was dressing up,” said freshman Daniel Jimenez. High school teacher Mrs. Fisher thought “It was a good theme.”
Junior Jazmine Keels won best-dressed for girls, and Tanner Singleton for the guys. After Thursday, the freshmen were leading with 1,715 points.Friday, the final day for the Clash of the Classes, was color day: each class was assigned a specific color which came into play at the end of the day for the Clash of the Classes competition.
Each class competes against each other in the following games: tug-of-war; the chair game; table game; trivia contest; and the clothespin game. Senior girls and sophomore boys won the chair game; juniors took the points in the trivia contest; sophomores won the table game for both guys and girls; sophomores took the win for tug-of-war as well; and freshman Kyle Wade won the clothespin game.
In the end, the sophomores won the whole competition, but it was still an enjoyable week for everyone. Dressing down was definitely the number-one perk to Clash of the Classes: “My favorite part was dressing down,” said Matt Anglea, and sophomore Trent Smith agreed: “Definitely dressing down.”
