This year the Steinbrenner football team has made school history by winning five games in a row, causing students to take showing school spirit to a brand new level. The atmosphere in school has always been supportive yet hopeful. However, it wasn’t until this year that the atmosphere changed into excited and pumped up.
“At first everyone was like ‘oh wait it’s school spirit, shouldn’t everyone be involved’ but as the years have gone on and we have more of a legacy that we’ve created, everyone thinks it’s cool to have school spirit and it’s just really cool to see everyone getting involved and excited for the games,”said junior Sarah Frost.
Many students this year have also driven out to away games to help support the team.
“The moral is high, so people want to go to more games because they are more confident that we will win,” said junior class president Mary Deschler, who noticed a change in attendance from last years away games to this years. “Students showed up to the Newsome game even though it was an hour away. If they thought that we would not win I feel that they would not have made the effort to drive that far.”
Another thing that helps the students to get into the mindset of supporting school spirit is that the Steinbrenner student section, the Gold Crew, has been having setting themes for all of the home games. The first home game of the season the Gold Crew organized the “Gold Out,” where students showed school spirit by dressing up in gold colors.
“The atmosphere has changed drastically. This team is special and we know it and going out and winning for our school gets us amped more and more each and every week. Our school has always supported us even through rough seasons these past few years and to see them hyped every week makes us play that much harder and is a big reason to our success this year. Gold crew is the best student section around hands down,” said senior linebacker Tyler Mirabella.
The football team itself has had a drastic change between last year and this year on and off the field. As of October 13th, the team has won six games, while last year they won a total of three games and tied one. They have not only had a change in heart, but also a change in strategy.
“Confidence is what is different about this team. We came into this year with a lot of confidence knowing how good we could be and with all the hard work we put in over the summer we knew it was going to take a lot if you wanted to stop us,” said Mirabella.
With the heart of the football team, and the spirit of the crowd, Steinbrenner football will serve its school proud.
