Live Oak and Sobrato High Schools preparing for homecoming
weekend Crazy hats, backward shirts and wacky games will liven up
both high schools this week, as Live Oak High and Sobrato High
celebrate school spirit gearing up for Homecoming weekend.
Crazy hats, backward shirts and wacky games will liven up both high schools this week, as Live Oak High and Sobrato High celebrate school spirit gearing up for Homecoming weekend.
Sobrato, which opened with ninth and tenth grade students for the 2004-2005 school year, is having its second Homecoming celebration. This year, the school also has a junior class and has a varsity football team, which has played the last two games away and is coming home to play El Molina High on Saturday.
Students at Sobrato will have a busy week, beginning Monday with “Music Lovers’ Day,” where students are invited to wear a band logo shirt or dress up like their favorite musician, not defying student dress code, of course. During lunch, students from each class will participate in a “Flintstone Garage Band” with a variety of “interesting instruments.”
On Tuesday, it’s “Wacky and Tacky Day,” when a variety of mismatched and backwards outfits and weird hairdos will show school spirit. The lunch activity will have something to do with stickiness, and student participants “must be very brave,” according to Associated Student Body Director Marla Carroll.
Midweek, Sobrato students will pull out their cowboy boots and Stetsons for “Western/Cowboy Day,” and a western-style sack race will keep everyone hopping at lunchtime.
Thursday means “Twin Day” at Sobrato. Students may dress alike to show their spirit, then during lunch, they can participate in a three-legged race with their “twin.”
And, as the weekend arrives, students will really show their spirit by pulling out their class t-shirts, Sobrato athletic jerseys and Sobrato colors. A pep rally, complete with band and spirit squad, finishes off the Sobrato Spirit Week.
Homecoming at Sobrato will be held at Live Oak’s Richert Field, with the junior varsity taking the field at noon and the varsity game against El Molina High beginning at 2:30pm. Homecoming floats designed by the different classes will be on view before the game and will be judged.
The school cannot have a parade, like Live Oak, because of the school’s location, according to Principal Rich Knapp.
“We can’t be out on Monterey Highway,” Knapp said. “Live Oak has a perfect spot, East Main is a much better road to have that on.”
Carroll said the ASB had talked about possibly parading the floats around the campus, but decided this year to just display them at the game.
“Maybe that’s something we can look at again for next year,” she said.
Later that night, the Homecoming dance will be held in the Sobrato gym.
Live Oak High’s festivities also begin this week, with Monday’s “Pajama Day.” Students were encouraged to wear their jammies and participate in pillow fights with pillows stuffed with balloons during the lunch break.
Live Oak’s ASB publicity director Angela Poth, 17, said the rest of the week should be just as fun.
“We’ve got some great stuff planned,” she said. “We’ll have ‘Sports Day’ on Tuesday, then ‘Twin Day,’ and ‘Decades Day’ on Thursday, where we can dress up from any decade we want. Friday is class spirit day, plus we have a rally and then the parade.”
The parade begins at 3:15pm at the school, traveling up E. Main Ave. through the downtown then back to the school. Classes and clubs have floats and convertibles with their representatives riding through the streets, usually throwing candy to the crowds.
The Acorns will play Salinas beginning with the freshman game and the junior varsity game, and kickoff for the varsity game is 7:30pm.
Poth said having freshmen at Live Oak this year and last year has not increased the level of competition.
“It’s really good because it’s more people that can bring more spirit to the school,” said Poth, who is a senior and a freshman mentor. “Everyone brings their own thing. It’s great to watch them get caught up in Live Oak spirit. Already, this year’s freshmen have so much more confidence, they’re really joining in.”
Of course, Poth was loyal to her class.
“The senior class is probably the best class ever,” she said Monday. “More than half the class dressed up today.
Marilyn Dubil covers education and law enforcement for The Times. Reach her at (408) 779-4106 ext. 202 or at md****@mo*************.com.
