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PHS Homecoming 2025
- Poudre Press Staff
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
2025’s Poudre high school’s homecoming came and went on the 25th of october, I interviewed Violeta Aguinaga. The student council member who was chair for homecoming of 25-26 which means that any ideas or purchases went through her. This started with the theme which was a Night in the Forest this year after multiple other themes were considered tangled. Which was ineligible due to being a Disney IP. They then decided on spirit day which to recap was hiking day on Tuesday comfy day on Wednesday, anything but a backpack day on Thursday and camo on Friday. The events (in order from Tuesday to Saturday) were: the Assembly, the Powder Puff game, the Car show The tail gate and then on Saturday the Homecoming dance.
The tradition for homecoming is unsure but the university of Missouri is said to have started it in 1911 when their athletic director Chester Brewer invited alumni to come attend a football game between the university of Missouri and the university of Kansas. According to the Mizzou Alumni Association. Nowadays it looks very different even from year to year.
When asked what was different this year Violeta mentioned that this year there was a change in leadership in student council with the loss of Jackie Forest a former student council president, she also mentioned “(That) we didn't have the bubble this year” in reference to the photo booth. There was also an addition of a food truck this year which according to Violeta “went well”.
She also observed that people this year used the outdoors area much more than last year with her saying that there were people waiting for tables. But for the people running the event they had quite a day arriving at the school early “ We had to get here at the school at eight and then we set up all the way until about one” they also changed the playlist by having students submit the songs after receiving feedback on the first day of school also know as no backpack day. “It was at the top of the list” prompting the change. The volume of the music at the dance was described as “loud but it wasn't deafening, it wasn't like you would come out of the gym and your ears would be ringing”.
But is homecoming for everyone? According to Violeta, yes.
“Because I think it's a fun experience and it's really able to get you out there even if you're not really social as a person. We try to have something for everybody even if it's just a cool area outside or just somewhere where you and your friends can talk. I know people aren't big fans of crowds and there are a lot of people who come to homecoming and so if it really is for social anxiety reasons that makes the most sense to me. But if you don't have a set in stone reason like your parents have curfew on you so you can't leave the house after a certain time or social anxiety is bad, and you don't like big crowds, or your claustrophobic, or epilepsy because we do have flashing lights so epilepsy kind of a big one, honestly I feel like other than set in stone reasons there’s not a really good reason not to go”
Homecoming is a tradition stretching back over one hundred years. It has changed greatly over that century and it will continue to change as we look toward homecoming in 2026.
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