As the students settled down in their seats, the Princess Pageant was kicked off with a video of the candidates acting completing crazy around Riverpark, Oct. 22. These activities included “ghosting” people, singing “Happy Birthday” to strangers and all while dressed in costumes such as sumo wrestlers or a full-body banana suit.
Following the video, the candidates were given one minute to dress themselves from a pile of clothes and show their favorite pose to the crowd. Afterwards, the candidates were divided into groups of three, consisting of one girl from each class. Here they would draw a slip from a hat, determining the next activity. Three different talents were given, including interpretive dancing, balance walking and painting self portraits.
Freshman princess Hannah Nale, dressed herself up in a sumo wrestling body suit with a black wig and cowboy hat for the costume portion of the pageant.
“The pageant was really fun, a little nerve-racking but still a lot of fun,” Nale said. “My favorite part was dressing up in the funny costumes and also doing my amazing dance moves to the song ‘Can’t Touch This.'”
Alexis Kalugin, ’16, found the pageant to be very amusing, although she would have liked it to be slightly more embarrassing for the contestants.
“I thought the pageant was really fun,” Kalugin said. “The princesses had to do really funny things. I thought it played out very nicely. Maybe they could have done slightly more embarrassing things but it was still a good time.”
Sophomore princess Alli Breedlove felt uneasy about not knowing what she was about to perform for the different challenges that were assigned to all the princesses.
“The princess pageant was fun, but I personally felt awkward,” Breedlove said. “I was nervous because of having to go up on stage in front of everyone and perform something that I didn’t know I was doing.”
Junior princess Kathryn Damschen anticipated the pageant, knowing that this was a time where she could go all out and just have fun with the other fellow contestants.
“I had so much fun dressing up, getting all crazy and just making a fool out of myself,” Damschen said. “I love showing people the real side of Kathryn Damschen. It was just a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to this Friday night.”
Freshman Matthew Tanaka enjoyed his first Princess Pageant, appreciating the different activities the candidates had to partake in. Tanaka is looking forward to the years to come.
“It was funny because they had to do a lot of random stuff,” Tanaka said. “The video was great because they had to do weird things with complete strangers. It can only get better from here, so I’m looking forward to the upcoming years.”
As a long time pageant audience member, journalism adviser Greg Stobbe enjoyed this year’s light-hearted events, but missed the usual gross activities performed in past years.
“In years past in the princess pageants, I looked forward to the gross things that the girls had to do,” Stobbe said. “Those are the really fun things that I missed because it’s fun watching prissy girls get all grossed out. I do like the dress up idea because it harkens back when we were all kids and we would wear are parents clothes despite it being ten sizes too big. So that kind of things remind us of the fun times we has when we were kids.”
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The Queen Pageant will be held in the Student Ministries Center from 12:10-12:45 p.m., Oct. 24. The King Pageant will also be held in the Student Ministries Center from 9:35-10:15 a.m., Oct. 25.
The 29th annual homecoming game will take place on the North Field at 7 p.m. The pre-game events will start at 6:30 p.m. where the princess candidates will be introduced. At half-time of the varsity game, the winners will be announced for all the homecoming court nominees.
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