Senior senate prepares for Powder Puff football.
The 25th annual Powder Puff football game took place on Monday, October 28 at 6 p.m. The junior class won this year.
Powder Puff is a girls-only football tournament, spanning over a single day. It is set up mainly by the senior senate, with the help of business teacher and senior senate sponsor Chad Huseth,. The rules for the game are generally the same as traditional football, but with the exception that it is touch football
“Each team has their own shirt color, and they design their own shirts,” Huseth said. “They get to have an opportunity to play football out in the football field for a whole night. It’s kind of their Super Bowl.”
There are four total teams during the Powder Puff, which play against each other in a tournament bracket.
“Each grade will have a team,” Huseth said. “They pay five bucks to play, and all that money goes towards the senior class in senior senate, that funds their entire year.”
The senior senate are the ones who prepare for the game, with the supervision of Huseth.
“[Preparing] is a team effort,” Huseth said, “I lead, but senior senate does all the stuff. You know, it’s their show. We have a lot of people that have to be involved with it.”The senior senate are separated into different groups when preparing for the games.
“There’s someone who’s doing the scoreboard, there’s people who are announcing, there’s people in charge of the music, a bunch of people in charge of the gates, and people in charge of counting the money, people in charge of the equipment, people in charge of getting the teams together, coaches, some of the kids at Senior Senate coach, some play,” Huseth said. “There’s so many different roles that go into it, because putting out a football game is a major operation.”
Even though the cost of being able to participate in the games–or simply watch them–is $5, people still make attempts to sneak into the game, Huseth said.
“I really don’t like it when people do try to skip out of paying and stuff like that, because then I have to play bad cop and I go kick them off the field,” Huseth said. “They give me 50 reasons why they ‘lost their permission slip’, or ‘their mom said they could play’.”
Each team’s coach is a student taken from the school’s football team.
“Either they volunteer or someone asks them to play,” Huseth said. “So finding coaches is usually not a problem. I encourage everybody who wants to coach to absolutely do that, because it’s fun for them too.”
Since the teams are separated by grade, there is room to believe the higher grades have the advantage over the lower grades. This is mainly the case, but there is an exception every now and then.
“Seniors usually win,” Huseth said. “They don’t always. There was a couple years ago, the freshman team won, really, which usually doesn’t happen, but it can.”
The senior senate and Mr. Huseth put quite a bit of work into the game and the preparation beforehand.
“I think my favorite part is when the games actually just start and you see everything, like all your work, taking fruition,” Huseth said. “You come to that point, and seeing the fun that people are having, and as many people as you see in the stands and then on the field, and it’s just everything you’ve done preparing for all this time, and seeing all the fruits of your labor paying off.”
