These teams practice for two hours a day, three days a week, running practices just like meets. This consistent practice does well for BHS, as two Varsity teams were sent to the State Competition last year. These two teams and each of their 5 members are returning to the mental sport this year. The State-participating teams from last year consisted of: Elise Lubben, Rachel Lawrence, Will Borgerding, Andrew Braun, Adam Blevins, Matthew Scherber, Avery Thompson, Milo Zimmerman, Ryder Zvorak, and Maria Whalen.

This concert is regarded by some as the biggest and best music concert of the school year. With 17 songs planned to be sung each night, a total of 10 separate groups singing, and multiple instrumentalists performing, the event is sure a sight to behold. Tickets can be purchased online (Thursday 12-16-21 – Friday 12-17-21) for $4 with very few tickets being sold at the school the night(s) of.

The Sounds of the Season concert is surely a sight to behold and is surely worth going to see. So if your Thursday or Friday night isn’t too busy, head on down to the BHS Performing Arts Center performance and support our local musicians. The doors open at 7:00 and carols will be sung outside the PAC before the event.

Almost every year one student will create a petition or something similar in an attempt to get another dance at the High School. This year, the petition was created by BHS senior Ellie Carik and it made its way around the school in late September amassing over 450 signatures. With the lack of a Homecoming and Prom for the class of 2022 last year, Ellie, and many other students, wanted a ‘replacement‘ dance for what they had missed.

Now, planning a dance isn’t as easy as DJ + students = profit, there is a lot more that comes in behind the scenes. Many things have to culminate just right for a school-wide dance to occur; the venue has to be booked, the DJ has to be hired, decorations have to be bought and used, and there has to be a student body to plan all of this. For Homecoming, the dance is planned, made, and funded by Student Council. Matthew Scherber ‘23, a member of the 2022 Student Council, was able to shed some light on what goes on in the making of a dance.

In this year’s senior class meeting, consisting of one member from each senior advisory class as well as BHS principal Mr. Mischke, the possibility of having another school dance was discussed. With interest by both parties, the chances seemed ever more likely. 

After previously having a winter dance at BHS, the possibility of being able to have one now is almost certain. With all of this in mind, what is the final checklist before this old tradition could be revived? With all of the public/student support on the petition, the main requirement for this to happen is an overseeing student club or group that can run the whole event. Like Student Council with Homecoming, a student body needs to be put together in order to define the details and put the pieces together. From there, it’s that body’s job to smooth everything out as well as deal with finalizing the venue, decorations, DJ, and any other school requirements.

This year’s Homecoming Week was dubbed “Disney Days”, with all five dress-up days connected with popular Disney films. Monday’s movie tie-in was Sleeping Beauty with the familiar Pajama Day, allowing students and staff to come to school in their comfortable night time clothes. Tuesday was Lilo & Stitch, filling the school hallways with people wearing lots of Hawaiian outfits. Toy Story was the movie for Wednesday, creating two factions of cowboys vs aliens. Thursday returned to tradition with Cars being the movie for Class Color Day. Friday ended the week off with High School Musical, a day for anyone and everyone to wear all of their Bison and purple gear for Bison Pride Day.

After finishing the school week, the Homecoming football game kickoff happened at 7:00 on Friday night lasting for a couple hours with the Buffalo Bison losing to the #1 ranked Andover Huskies 18-24 after a weather warning with forty seconds left in the fourth quarter. Despite this loss, the student section of the stands were filled with purple and loud, unified chants throughout the whole game.

Some BHS students followed up the game by heading into the school for Friday Fun Night until midnight. Students had the options of ping pong, bean bag toss, spectating the volleyball tournament occurring in the gym, or playing Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero. At 10:30 they opened up the doors to the Performing Arts Center for the show of the night – a hypnotist. The performer brought up fifteen to twenty students on stage to be hypnotized in an hour long show. Those that were successfully hypnotized drove their favorite cars, fished up their most wanted items, performed in a speed cow-milking contest, and other acts of the sort. After the show concluded, students continued to take part in the activities as the night neared to an end. After midnight, students went home to get a good night’s rest to prepare for the Homecoming dance the following night.

Homecoming week concluded on Saturday with the Homecoming dance, an event so popular that the line to get in the building took over an hour to reach the end. Starting at 7:00 p.m., the dance lasted for three hours with music and colored lights filling the cafeteria room. The dress code was more formal than it was two years ago, giving students a choice of wearing a tie, shirt, and pants (excluding jeans), or wearing a dress. The music was run by a DJ, playing popular songs allowing people to sing, jump, and dance along. For those that got hot, tired, or just wanted a break could head into the Performing Arts Center where Ratatouille was being played. The dance was taken part and enjoyed by many for the full three hours until it concluded.