Annie DiBernardo
January 5, 2016
Girl’s playing football? Boys shaking pom-poms and cheering? This is not your average football game. It’s the Colonie Central High School annual powderpuff game. It’s fun. It’s exciting. This is a tradition at our school. Unfortunately it did not happen this past fall. Students were in uproar over this.
A lot of juniors and seniors here at Colonie High were very upset this past fall when they heard announcement that the annual powderpuff game would be canceled. The students were confused as to why this could be. Aaron Muia, a senior here at Colonie says, “The school is being sexist by not having a powder puff game. It provides entertainment for the student body and teachers while juniors and seniors have a friendly competition. Although the game can get intense, we’re raising money for a charity organization.” Emily Satin, another senior here at Colonie says it’s not fair that the varsity football team couldn’t take some time and contribute to senior activities off to coach us. She also brings up the point that the coaches are not in that position of power to control an annual event.
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Mr. Robilotti, Colonie High Schools principal sat down to clear the air on this subject. Mr. Robilotti explained that the game was never actually canceled, he said there was, “no administrative push to cancel it.” Since homecoming week was so early this year a powderpuff game was never really mentioned. In past years the game has never been canceled. Usually there is some drama with the girls over social media but it is nothing that can’t be resolved. Although there won’t be a homecoming game to go along with it, our principal mentioned the possibility of having a game in the spring as long as the money raised is donated and no one misbehaves.
Clearly there was a lot of confusion this past fall involving the annual powderpuff competition. Hopefully this spring the juniors and seniors can come together to organize a game.
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