Football coach Keith Rawlings spoke next about the unity the team gained after spending a week together at Camp Tall Timbers in West Virginia, and talked about the concept that JC is like a second home to most students. He stressed the expected victory that night versus Severn. The team then huddled in a circle and sang “Country Roads,” urging the whole student body to sing along.

The cheerleaders did a routine of stunts and tumbling to Sean Kingston’s “Fire Burning,” complete with liberties, standing back handsprings and tucks, full downs and double downs, toe touch basket tosses, split pyramids, high torches to arabesque full downs, a running tumbling sequence, toss up heel stretches, and ending with a back handspring pyramid.  

The team also led the crowd in a school wide chant of “We are… JC!”

Following the cheerleaders’ routine was a faculty versus students game of pillow polo. The faculty played the game on canes, crutches, and wheelchairs. Students beat the faculty 6-2 after the faculty went out to an early 2-0 lead. The game turned around when the Patriot mascot came out to join the students’ huddle, inspiring the team enough for them to score six unanswered points. Dan Froehlich led the team with two goals and one assist in the victory.  

 Julia Earnshaw can be reached for comment at [email protected].

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