By Emily McCann
The STA senior class powderpuff game will be school sponsored this year and will take place on the new STA field. According to senior class officer Alex Mediavilla, the format will be flag football and spectators will pay a small fee.
According to Mediavilla, this is the first year the event will be school sponsored.
“[The senior class] would have felt uncomfortable going behind the administration’s back,” Mediavilla said. “The only way for us to do it was to go through the administration.”
Senior Elizabeth Daugherty believes that the changes to the format will affect the overall atmosphere of the game.
“People might hold back since it’s flag football,” Daugherty said. “And it will probably be a lot less crazy since it will be school sponsored and on school property.”
Despite the change in atmosphere, Daugherty says the school taking over sponsorship is a good thing.
“Although I’m upset we can’t tackle anyone it’s a good move on the school’s part to sponsor it,” Daugherty said. “The school can’t have us go out and embarrass ourselves like last year.”
Even though the format of the game has changed, the bottom line remains the same.
“I’m excited,” Daugherty said. “I just want to get out there and have fun.”
Im 'Embarrassed? • Jan 31, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Im not embarrassed and how would that person even know? Not like she was there.
Samantha Scheuler • Dec 19, 2011 at 10:25 am
Hey I’m all excited for you guys to experience powder puff this spring semester like countless previous senior classes. However a comment made in this article particularly upsets me, as a member of last year’s class. I encourage journalists of our school’s wonderful paper to be more sensitive to singling out and offending senior classes previous to them. Yes, we may have had a poor showing at last year’s powderpuff game but when we peruse Dart issues after our graduation that last thing we want to see are comments degrading our class. Most notably of course, the comment I’m referring to reflects the conduct of a FEW seniors from last year. NOT the entire class. Also, even if our entire class behaved poorly we shouldn’t have to see those we considered friends making comments to highlight and publicly humiliate us. It sucks that we still feel apart of the academy and look back on it fondly yet find our own sisters making unnecessary and ugly statements about us. I am glad your class has the advantage of having a new field and that you’re eager to show it off via the powderpuff game. However, please do so respectfully and with class. Don’t make mean comments about previous grades. Such comments only serve to illustrate the fine Academy as nasty school with division among classes. Please don’t “embarrass” yourselves in this way. Take it from someone who knows, it doesn’t feel good to read about it later.