For the 2025-2026 school year, the annual Powderpuff game will take place on Tuesday, October 7th, attendance free of charge.
Powderpuff is set up as a gender-swap flag football game. Boys are the cheerleaders and girls are the players. The football team will volunteer players to coach each grade level.
For the game, freshmen go up against juniors, and sophomores go up against seniors. Then, the winners of each game face each other in a final match.
While many do it for fun, some can turn Powderpuff into something serious. The actual football game is a flag game. Flag football is a sport that occurs in the spring season of school sports. After Powderpuff, students begin to take an interest in the sport.
Sophomore coach Shaden Hunt stated that coaches mainly encourage the players to have fun. However, he explained he’ll “also help them develop that skill,” since some show an interest in genuinely playing flag football.
Hunt believes that he is strong in coaching the skill aspect since he knows how to play football and can teach them “how to kind of perfect their technique, in a sense.”
People join Powderpuff for a multitude of reasons. Bellamar Marin Morales, a freshman player, expressed her love for playing sports, the fun factor and her wish “to try something new.”
Freshman player Taylor Buice shared that she joined the team because it seemed fun, but also because of a desire to do something active at the beginning of the year since her main sport, softball, isn’t in season.
Freshman player, Lyla Jackson, expressed that her motive for joining was her peers. A few of her friends are doing it, along with her sister, Mia Jackson. Her sister is in her junior year so Jackson said it would be fun to go up against her.
Sophomore player, Naveah Jacotin encourages others to join Powderpuff if they want to experience something fun during the beginning of the year. She explained that it is a good way to make connections with others in one’s grade and get to know them.
Powderpuff will have five practices following the two already completed.
Uniforms for the participants are not yet known by them. However, they did have to fill out a form for their t-shirt. Jacotin said, “they have to finish signing the forms, and then they’re going to order the uniforms.”
Despite not knowing, it is believed that freshmen’s uniform will be a white shirt, as that is what it’s been in past years.
Every year each grade level has a teacher who is a sponsor. For this year, the sponsors were Brandon Brule (freshmen), Linsey Uphoff (sophomores), Alana Watson (juniors), and Alana Newell (seniors).
