(above) The members of the Boys Soccer Team and the Girls Soccer Team gathered before each team demonstrated their skills and team spirit on the Tozier Stadium Field at the Fall Pep Rally.
‘Warriors Pride’ at WHRHS Fall 2019 Pep Rally
Submitted by Denis Kelly
Seniors wearing white shirts, Juniors wearing blue, Sophomores wearing red and Freshmen wearing green gathered in the stands of Tozier Stadium on Friday afternoon, September 13, 2019, at the annual Fall Pep Rally to cheer for the Watchung Hills Regional High School (WHRHS) Fall athletic teams.
Later that night, under the lights at the same Tozier Stadium, the football team won its second victory of the season, defeating Plainfield High School, 35-12.
Warrior Head Football Coach Rich Seubert, who was named The Lou Rettino High School Coach of the Week for Week 2 of the 2019 season by the New York Giants and Gatorade, and who played for 10 years for the New York Giants, including in the Giants’ win in the 2007 Super Bowl, came out just before the Warrior football team charged onto the field at the Pep Rally, to lead “call-and-response” cheers.
Leading up to the football team’s appearance at the Fall Pep Rally, a variety of the other teams, representing the numerous athletic teams, entertained the students in the stands. Among those making appearances at the Pep Rally were: Boys Cross Country and Girls Cross Country teams, whose runners circled the stadium together, running a lap on the track; The Boys Soccer and Girls Soccer teams, whose players demonstrated various passing, kicking and ball control skills; Field Hockey, whose team members demonstrated their pinpoint passing and stick handling abilities; Ultimate Frisbee, whose never-stop-running boys and girls players covered the entire field, and some of the sidelines, sometimes right up to the stands, with deft Frisbee passing and spectacular catching; Tennis, whose players seized the opportunity to execute scores of soft lobs, sending tennis balls to the four corners of the stands, and to the many outstretched hands in-between, all to the delight of the students; and Gymnastics, whose competitors demonstrated their sport’s array of athletic skills like cartwheels, somersaults, spins and gravity-defying leaps.
Also represented on the field were the various elements of the Music Department’s WHRHS Marching Warriors and Flag Squad. To open the Pep Rally, the Marching Band performed one of its signature pieces that audiences had heard and will hear as part of halftime performances at the 2019-2020 Warrior Football Games. The Warrior Marching Band is under the direction of Instrumental Music Teacher Paul McCullen, with assistance by Music Tech Lab Music Teacher Christopher Wyatt. Likewise, the WHRHS Cheerleaders demonstrated their various dances, formations, lifts, trust falls and cheers that are ever-present at so many WHRHS athletic and school-spirit events.
Acting as public address announcers at the Pep Rally was All School Council (ASC) Vice President Scott Romankow and ASC Parliamentarian Jed Ober in the Press Box. The annual Pep Rally was organized by the All School Council to honor all Fall Varsity Athletes.
Photos by WHRHS
(above) The WHRHS Cheerleaders demonstrated their various dances, formations, lifts, trust falls and cheers that are ever-present at so many WHRHS athletic and school-spirit events.
(above) To open the Pep Rally, the Marching Band performed one of its signature pieces that audiences had heard and will hear as part of halftime performances at the 2019-2020 Warrior Football Games.
