Everyone who’s been in the student section at a football game knows the chants. They’ve been the same for years. There’s the first down chant, the party chant, let’s go Eagles, and many more. This year, StuCo decided to come up with some new ones.
“I feel like in the past couple of years, our school has lost a lot of its spirit, and I feel like most high schools in general have,” StuCo Vice President Kylie Richardson (12) said. “So I feel like incorporating something new and fun gives it more of a new perspective and people will incorporate it more and do more for it, and it’s something that just gets more people riled up.”
StuCo did a lot of collaboration with Liberty’s cheer and dance teams to come up with the new chants. The goal this year is to get everyone working together and collaborate with each other. In years past, the student section does their thing, the band does their thing, and cheer and dance do their thing.
“Really, our main goal this year was to increase the spirit here at Liberty and bring everyone together overall,” StuCo President Chandler Hirtz (12) said.
Another part of the goal this year is to incorporate everyone. Instead of having only certain people be included, StuCo wants to include everyone and become more united as a school. With the new chants and cheers, StuCo hopes this will bring the school together and get more students involved.
“We have new ones coming with dance and cheer, because we all want to be together as one, and not just our own separate groups,” Richardson said. “We want to be more united as a school. So, I guess just trying to figure out how everyone can be included, and no just certain people and how it can be fun for everybody.”
The process for choosing the the new chants wasn’t necessarily a piece of cake. There was a process to choosing the new chants. Members of StuCo looked through Instagram and TikTok for new chants that might work. They then went through the ideas with the Culture Committee, and brainstormed and voted for which chants they thought would work best. They tested out the chants outside to see which ones would get people going the most. To make the chants more personable to Liberty, they added things like Eagles and red, white, and blue to the chants to fit LHS.
“It was a little bit difficult because we had some people agreeing with different things and also we had to kind of come up with completely new ones,” Hirtz said. “So it was a little bit difficult, but overall, it worked out.”
There was some difficulty as well with making sure they weren’t going to be “cringy”, and because of such make students not want to participate in them.
“You have to find kind of like that even balance to where it’s still fun, it still matches your school, but it’s also something that’s still in with the times and stuff people would want to do,” Richardson said.
The original chants that everyone knows won’t be going away anytime soon though. With the addition of the new chants, no old chants had to be discarded, but they might fizzle out as time goes on and the new chants gain more popularity.
