By Madison Andrada & Justice Brown
Clash of Classes was introduced to BHS last school year to go along with our Winter Rally. The Clash of Classes consist of a week of school spirit, games, competitions, and a point system. Clash Champions winning the games and competitions, dressing up for spirit days, and having the most spirit at the rally gets your class points to later reveal the winners of Clash at the end of the rally.
Monday – Starting off our clash of classes strong, students wore sports attire. Students participated in various sports activities during lunch such as sprinting, an arm wrestle, archery, and a throw. Every class played hard but in the end our two seniors, Thomas Jouvenot-Sells and Colbie Nolan, won the sports competition.
Tuesday – This day was a day full of performance, students wore band shirts or other music related items to show spirit for the dress up day “Apollo’s Muses”. At lunch, nominated champions went up on stage to display something for performing arts, music, dance, monologues and more got the crowd extremely excited to see who’d win. Taking the cake on Tuesday was the seniors with a monologue from Jeremy Ross and live music from Harrison Mead and Evan Reed.
Wednesday – Students dressed up as their dream job. We saw lots of nurses, doctors, and other healthcare careers. Students put their engineering skills to the test. 2 people from every class were selected to compete in an egg drop. The classes used materials such as paper and tape to build a capsule that will safely hold an egg. Teams dropped the egg from two different heights. The seniors, Logan Baeta and Zoey Cohen, once again won the clash of classes game.
Thursday – This theme was decades day, each class represented a different decade: freshmen represented the ‘60s, sophomores the ‘70s, juniors the ‘80s, and finally the seniors were the ‘90s.
Our final clash of classes lunch competition ended with a trivia game. Two representatives from each class had a buzzer, and the first to buzz in got to answer the question. However there was a twist!
If you got the answer right you had the chance to look into a luggage to get points. The two contestants who got the question right stood at a table with two cases. One player opened the the case while the other had the option to switch or keep their case. The senior’s streak of winning was broken by the sophomores, Rocky Chestnut and Alejandro Penner, and they took the win on this challenge!
Friday – For the last spirit day of clash of classes, students represented their class colors: freshmen wearing red, sophomores wearing green, juniors wearing blue, and seniors wearing gold.
One of the clash of classes competitions during the rally was a relay race with all of the class champions plus their teacher representative. The freshmen’s teacher was Mr. Wheat, the sophomores had Mrs. White, the juniors had Mr. Rodriguez, and the seniors had Mr. Baker. The race included a free point throw, eating a roll up with no hands, catching whip cream in their mouth, and finally catching a Swedish fish in their mouth.
Mr. Wheat ended in first, giving the freshmen their first win of the week. The relay race with all of the class champions had the champions throwing inflatable tubes on someone, then throwing two pool noodles into the middle of the gym, making a human pyramid, then a final sprint towards the finish lines, which the seniors won.
Wrapping up with the rally clips of all the music videos were played with the teacher voted winner being revealed. With lots of anticipation it was revealed that the seniors won the music video competition!
Closing out the rally the Clash of Classes trophy was brought out and Ms. Morgan announced that the winner of the 2026 Clash of Classes was the seniors! Now being back to back champions with the class of ‘26 also winning last year have shown you have to try hard and engage to win the clash and there’s no automatic win just for being seniors.
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