All that was visible was a sea of black, yellow, green, and white as the roar of the crowd and the exuberant commentary reverberated across Davis Field.

Held on the last day of Spirit Week by the Spirit Club, the rally encouraged all classes to come together and display their enthusiasm in many different activities.

Students donned their class-designed shirts and other accessories to show spirit; noticeably, the sophomores wore bright yellow sunglasses to coordinate with their shirts.

“It was great to see all the classes so spirited and all the effort that they put into their dances,” Sahiti Avula (10) said. “For us, the sunglasses just added to our class spirit and added something unique that the other classes did not have.”

In the annual scream-off, the seniors prevailed, leaving the freshmen and juniors tied for second place and the sophomores in fourth.

In addition to the dances and scream-off, the cheer team and JV Dance Troupe performed, and each of the class officers competed in a relay race.

Each class council’s officers completed the obstacle course, in which students crawled through a tunnel, bounced across the field on exercise balls, and dove across the slip-and-slide before flinging sizable buckets of frigid water on ASB members and Spirit Club President Andre Tran (12). A new addition to this year’s rally, class deans kicked off the obstacle course with a tissue box shake.

This year the Spirit Club decided to substitute the well-known skit with a class dance, differing from previous rallies. Classes randomly selected two musical genres from different eras and choreographed dances incorporating both. To symbolize unity, all dances had at least one section in which the whole class displayed their moves.

“We pulled a lot of changes this year, [such as] adding the dance instead of skits, and the feedback we’ve been hearing is that people loved it and that’s great,” Andre said. “It’s always nice to see things go according to plan.”

Freshman Kunal Mehta agreed that the dances were enjoyable to watch during the rally.

“It was really fun to see the sophomores dance to the Bollywood music,” he said.

However, not all students appreciated the revision to the rally’s agenda.

“The dances were well-choreographed, and you could tell a lot of work went into them, but I liked the skits better,” Maya Nandakumar (10) said.

On the other hand, seniors found little fault with the change, instead savoring their final high school rally. Dancing to “Bye Bye Bye” by Nsync, the class of 2013 conveyed the multitude of emotions they feel with dwindling time left at the Upper School.

“It was kind of bittersweet; it’s the last time we will be all together as a class, cheering on each other, so that was kind of sad,” Ragini Bhattacharya (12) said. “But it’s really fun because we’ve been through each side, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, so it’s crazy knowing it is the end.”

Andre echoed this sentiment, describing his mixed feelings about his last high school rally. He believes spirit rallies are a bonding experience because of the class unity and cheering.

“I’m kind of disappointed and happy at same time; it hasn’t really hit me yet but that was the last high school rally I’ll ever go to, and it was a blast,” he said. “I know I’ll miss it; it’s just a really good bonding experience.”

Unlike the others, Srivinay Irrinki (10) felt the energy level was far lower this year.

“It was really fun but it didn’t compare to last year,” he said. “Last year was more enthusiastic.”

The final results of Spirit Week will be revealed at next Monday’s school meeting.