Olympics-Themed Red & White Brings High Spirits and Hilarity
The 2024 Olympics may have ended, but last Friday, the spirit of the Games was resurrected on the Rivers campus for the first Red & White competition of the 2024–25 school year. The stirring sounds of the Olympics theme rang out over the Lank Quadrangle as the student body assembled for the traditional friendly competition, sorting themselves into red and white teams to vie for the bragging rights that are the contest’s prize.
Red & White is taken seriously—but not very seriously. Faculty members Sequoyah Reynoso and Zoë Iacovelli kept the tone light as they led the students through trivia contests, madcap activities, and name-that-tune antics.
In keeping with the theme, the trivia focused on the Olympics, with students scrambling to reach the chair placed up front and be the first to answer such prompts as “What Olympics event took place in Tahiti this summer?” (surfing) and “How many medals did the US win overall?” (126) and “What new sport made its Olympic debut in Paris?” (breaking).
Definitely not coming to the Olympics anytime soon, but hilariously featured at Friday’s Red & White, were a speed-walk relay, a race involving scooping up balls with a teaspoon, and “synchronized swimming” routines choreographed in two minutes and performed on dry land.
As always, the laughs were plentiful, spirits were high, and the music was loud. While the white team emerged as the victor, red proved a worthy adversary, and both teams enjoyed their time in the Olympic spotlight. The Games’ motto, slightly amended, seemed perfectly apropos for this Red & White: “Faster, Higher, Stronger, Funnier.”
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