On May 30, cheers clad in pink shorts stomped their way up and down the middle school turf. A few Powderpuff players were adorned with sparkling pink paint dashed on their cheekbones.
The game was originally planned for May 24, but after the baseball team advanced to playoffs, they rescheduled. Four teams, the BS (Black Sheep), BSTFU, The Underdogs, and CadStuco, played in the Powderpuff championship, with every team except The Underdogs, which was composed of seniors.
In between games, BS team members psyched themselves up and celebrated one of their final memories as seniors.
“We’re all athletes and friends,” senior Laura Shea said. “We just wanted to come up, come out here, and have this one last chance to play with each other.”
Her teammate senior Marin Faggioli also appreciates Powderpuff’s reinstatement.
“I think it’s a great way for everyone to come together, be social,” Faggioli said. “I think that it was a really good idea by the president, student council office.”
Student Council President senior Lola Babin and Vice Presidents seniors Zane Malarkey and Madaline Bonhomme were the main organizers of the event.
“We got a lot of feedback at the beginning of the year that one of the main things students wanted to bring back was Powderpuff,” Babin said. “But unfortunately, during homecoming week, it just got so busy. So [you] got towards the end of the year, and we were like, ‘let’s just do Powderpuff.’”
The BS won the championship with a team composed of seniors Bianca Penn, Gia Chaves, Ava Yancey, Shea, Faggioli, and Marley Feinburg. The MVP was Shea, while MVP of the runner-up team was Kairalucci Odenigbo.
“It was pretty fun, I mean, this is the first time we’ve actually had this since my sophomore year,” senior Haven football quarterback Jake Kitchin said. “So it was the first time we had all girls. It was a lot of fun to coach it because there’s a lot of spirit out here, lot of game that they have, so it was pretty fun.”
