Omaha Marian High School Field Day Special Insert of the Network Student Newspaper

FIELD DAY

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Field WEEK

April 23-27

Nothing “chalky” about sportsmanship The senior class writes a warm welcoming to kick off Field Week. Similar messages of class unity and sportsmanship decorated the sidewalks.

Spreading the wealth Ellie Messerschmidt ’18 hands out pennies to Mary Trainer ’18 and Sydney Knight ’18. Messerschmidt’s pennies gave every student a hint of last minute luck before Field Day.

Esprit de Corps Sisters embrace The Classes of 2020 and 2018 meet to celebrate the Field Day results. Little and Big sisters traditionally rush to the floor of Baxter after finding out the places of each grade.

Sew into helping Rose Claire VandeVegt ’19 helps Emilee Braun ’18 with costumes.

Students gave help to other grades throughout the week after they were done with their own committee endeavors.

A sweet treat Lauren Zadalis ’20 showcases three pans of the 510 cookies for her fellow Marian sisters.

The three types of cookies, decorated according to the colors of each class, took Zadalis and her friends nearly six hours to make. “One of my Class Officers was talking in chemistry about giving something to the other classes, but not being sure about how to do it and what to do, so I volunteered to make cookies,” Zadalis said. She and other sophomores passed out the cookies the Thursday of Field Week. “I got a lot of hugs and ‘thank you’s’ throughout the day,” Zadalis said. Photo courtesy of Lauren Zadalis.

Unity bling Anna Swoboda ’18 sports a message of class unity.

Students also showed their support for other classes through pops of other class’ colors in their Field Week outfits.

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We love class unity!

Photos in this Field Week section by Maddie Robertson, Sofy Herrera, Grace Sall, Delaney Stekr & Taylor Sterba

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No beef!

Love and lockers The Class of 2021 decorates the junior lockers with notes of gratitude. The Class of 2019 also posted messages of encouragement throughout the school during Field Week.

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JUDGES BOOKLET

1st: Seniors 2nd: Juniors 3rd: Freshmen 4th: Sophomores

Field Day family dinner Juniors Rebecca Townley, Audrey Ana Otwell and Lily Gonzalez sit at a dinner table during their Judges Booklet skit. The combination of the skit and booklet took multiple meetings and a large commitment.

“Coming up with a good skit that will incorporate the actual booklet into the skit [was the hardest part]. Also, I didn’t know I was going to be in the skit until Tuesday of Field Week,” Townley said.

Now watch me whip Seniors Colby Lemkau, Rayna Bartling, Grace Woltemath, Rachael Brich and Shannon McSweeney imitate driving a race car during their junior class part of their Judges Booklet skit. Their suitcase booklet lays on the floor between Brich and McSweeney. The skit was not done until Thursday and, in total, they wrote 18 scripts before they came up with the one they performed on Field Day.

We are farmers Freshmen Callie Cavanaugh, Casey Brattan, Elaina Carleton and Grace Clark act in their Judges Booklet skit while surrounding their barn booklet. Their costumes were pieced together from the Goodwill, where the girls went to shop for costumes prior to Field Day.

Cue the applause Sophomores Kailee Latke, Cecilia Fuller, Anna Hoffman, Agoum Mondyhel and Katelin Kearney pose with their Judges Booklet shaped as a boat.

The most complicated part to make was the booklet, which involved lots of hot glue and 12 hours of work.

CHEER

1st: Juniors 2nd: Seniors 3rd: Sophomores 4th: Freshmen

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Glitter?! Put that away! Do you want us to get deductions?!

That’s our cue! Get to work pit crew!

Banana split Junior Mary Grace Eckert does a toe touch in the middle of Junior’s cheer performance. The squad did many various jumps to attain their first place. They also had a last minute costume zipper fix on Mia Esparrago’s costume

by Mrs. Kris Calhoun.

Now boarding Senior Field Day cheer poses in one of their final song formations. The girls began planning songs and formations as soon as Color Block ended. The team’s favorite line of their performance was “Bit of senioritis we sure have.”

Stompin’ sailors Sophomore Holly McCutcheon leads the front of the sophomore formation. The most difficult part for the sophomores was keeping their stamina to stay loud towards the end of their cheer routine.

Strike a pose Freshmen Quinn Findley and Ava Jarecki jump into the splits mid-performance. The freshmen cheer squad’s favorite part of their first Field Day was their sleepover together on Field Night. They got to bond before they performed.

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WAL LS

1st: Juniors & Seniors 3rd: Sophomores 4th: Freshmen

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The community you can create in walls is really cool and it is really fun to work together to reach a goal.

- Jojo Randby ’21

Working hard or hardly working? Julia Kobler ’18, Sadie Andrews ’18 and Annie Gregg ’18 work on their senior walls. Senior walls featured boarding tickets for all of the seniors with their destination being their college.

Sophs spin pipe cleaners Chrissy Gulseth ’20 concentrates on the details of sophomore walls. Their lighthouse was lit.

MASCOT

Soaring, flying through Baxter The senior mascot was operated by Emmanuela Ahanti ’18 and Tara Sanchez ’18. The mascot committee lovingly nicknamed the mascot “Bruce” after the shark on “Finding Nemo.”

Singing for second Cydney Putnam ’21 sings demo songs while collecting berries for the freshmen class. Their mascot was a tractor pulling all of their strawberry seeds.

Smoking in style Samantha Tracy ’19 and Audrey Mumby ’19 drive the mascot for the junior class. The juniors used a fog machine to imitate a smoking race car engine.

Focused freshman Aryannah Harrison ’21 ensures the stability of freshmen walls. Freshmen sported the colors red and pink.

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Smiling through the pain Kaitlyn Rosenbaum ’19 and Katherine Pelton ’19 stuff tissue paper into chicken wire for the border of their walls. Junior walls had a race car in every section.

The best part of mascot is getting to see the finished product and my committee is pretty sweet so I like to work with them.

- Sara Lighthart ’20

1st: Seniors 2nd: Freshmen 3rd: Juniors 4th: Sophomores

Bright lighthouse Katie Palmer ’20 interacts with her class during demo. The sophomore mascot featured life preservers in the colors of each class.

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2nd Freshmen Jenna Anderson, Anna Ambrose, Aby Acevedo, Lea Bushy, Amanda Allbery, Julia Becker, Catherine Alvarez and Emily Beyer

stand hand-in-hand during their first demonstration. Their strawberry ensembles were made of red ponchos with pink seeds. The collars were green leaves and they sported pink bandanas with the iconic pigtail braids. Alexa Richter said the hardest part of the process was cutting the leaf collars and making sure each costume had the same pattern of seeds painted on. “I think the most memorable part was when we all were jamming out to music and just being with all of my friends,” Richter said.

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Sophomores Mischa Mountjoy, Lizzy Musilek and Clara Neary display their green and blue boat costumes during their demonstration. The green boats held an anchor inside that the girls took out during their last song.

Each girl wore a blue flag on their right arms and green bows in their hair. The anchors were made out of styrofoam. Sophomores used their flags for some songs to show a sail. “The part I will remember most is listening to the ‘High School Musical’ soundtrack while we painted the anchors,” Sarah Doll said.

Costumes

consisted of yellow solo cups, yellow paper plates and purple cars. Each student wore patches with symbols of each class and their colors to emphasize school unity on Field Day. Clara Kidder said the patches were her favorite aspect of costumes because of its connection with school unity.

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Seniors Morgan Hodges, Grace Hahler and Emma Raabe form the 1st outer circle of a race track for their junior formation. Their costumes were

passengers sitting in seats, equipped with a cup and neck pillow. The back of the costume displayed a Network newspaper inside an orange pocket square.

“I’ve worked on costumes since sophomore year. It’s chaos to any outsider, but after doing it for years, you learn the tricks, and it becomes a very organized and systematic chaos,” Anna Swoboda said.

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DEMONSTRATION

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We are the freshmen class of ’21 we’re berry sad our first harvest is done...

We were zooming through the racetrack, all our sisters by our side. Though our race is not quite over, we will cherish all our time...

In four days, girls must memorize a 8-12 minute mixture of songs to the tune of familiar beats before Friday. Each class’s demonstration is the highlight of Field Day, the part that involves every single student singing and making formations on the floor of Baxter Arena.

The brave girls tasked with creating the concoction of lyrics for their class begin planning as soon as Color Block is over, meeting frequently to collaborate on what will best display their class spirit and school unity with their theme.

When the final product comes together on Friday, the demonstration not only requires reciting the songs that students have memorized, but also remembering where to move in intricate formations and shapes that the demo committee has planned in the days previous. The results can make or break the results for a class. Here are some of each class’s favorite lines from their demonstrations:

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Juniors Abby Maroney, Marissa Morris, Hali Hansen and Nika 4th Lisko show off their race car costumes during demonstration. Their costumes

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Soph set sail, our second year, we have made it here...

Watch out we’re taking off, soaring far away from the place we love...