Madison Frisby, Daniel Ward, Ashlyn Greenfield, Zak Weddell, Camden Jahreis, Ayla Nelson and Ty Glover. King candidate Abram Millward was not at school on Thursday.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Douglas High School’s Homecoming Court is in place and ready to lead next week’s celebration.
The court will be riding in Wednesday’s Fall Fest at Minden Park before students pick the top couple.
Tiger basketball player Ashlyn Greenfield described the process on Thursday.
“You start off by picking a partner that you’d like to run with,” she said. “You get all your senior classmates to nominate you and once you’re nominated, then you are officially part of the Homecoming Court.”
On Thursday, Leadership Advisor Karen Lamb handed out sashes to seven of the eight homecoming court members that they wear all next week. The eighth member of the court, Abram Millward wasn’t at school that day.
Voting begins on Wednesday for the king and queen, but the court will have to dance to convince classmates to award them the crown.
“You and your partner will create a 30-second pep rally dance from your theme and perform it in front of the student body,” said Greenfield. “I grew up with all these amazing people around me.”
Student voting for Homecoming King and Queen wraps up 1 p.m. Friday after the pep assembly and the winners will be announced at the Homecoming Game against Spanish Springs. The dance is the following night.
Greenfield’s partner is Ty Glover, who has lived in Carson Valley for most of his life. Glover said he works part-time.
“I think that I’m a pretty good person,” he said. “I work at Pizza Factory, and I love it there so much.”
Distance runner Ayla Nelson’s partner is Millward, who plays tennis for the Tigers.
Douglas High School Student Body President Camden Jahreis and track and field competitor Zak Weddell are running together.
Weddell has lived in the Valley since the sixth grade, when he attended Carson Valley Middle School.
Daniel Ward is an officer in the school’s Block D Club, which traditionally gathers donations to purchase turkeys and other groceries for the Carson Valley Community Food Closet for Thanksgiving.
He is partnered with Tiger golfer Madison Frisby, who has lived in the Valley for around seven years.
Wednesday’s Fall Fest includes a parade around Minden Park.
The event also features the induction of former Band Director Bill Zabelsky and 2000 graduate and former JV soccer coach Timothy Plummer into the Douglas High School Hall of Fame.
Zabelsky started out teaching at Gardnerville Elementary School in 1979 and was band director at Douglas High School from the mid-1980s to 2013.
