The tenth annual lip-sync battle went off with a bang with four staff members and 38 students performing a total of 14 acts on Thursday Dec. 19, all taking to the stage to show off their amazing dance and lip-syncing skills. Students, staff and parents filled the auditorium as the acts began with performances like English teacher Mr. Juhl lip syncing to “Rainbow Connection” by Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog) and Mr. Peterson hosting a two-minute dance party, inviting audience members to join on stage. As well as having history teacher Mr. Bonner playing a brutal game of Simon Says with parents and students during intermission, with a final show down between Brynna Pukis and her younger sister who ends up taking the win. Along with English teacher Mr. Christianson joining Heba Abu-Halaweh in her dance to “DDU-DU-DDU-DU” by BLACKPINK.
While the teachers had their moments to shine students also went all out, like Jack Swafford and Geoffrey Herrick dressed head to toe like proper gentlemen with canes dancing away to “My Way” by Frank Sinatra with roses in their mouths, or seniors Gracie Botton, Ally Skoog, Ruari McPeak, and Addy Clarke performing an upbeat scene to “24K Magic” by Bruno Mars. But the showstoppers where the winners of the night, the group $leepBob made up of Tabitha Biasco, Cheyenne Bigby, Ashton McCully, Jazmine Nyhart, Mashal Abbasi, and Olivia Apostolos. The group performed gained the most hype and creativity with each girl representing a rapper. “I picked Ice Spice because I was her for Halloween and I think it’s just iconic to bring her back,” Nyhart said.
When it came time to decide the winner and it was announced that their group had won, the girls were ecstatic and when asked afterwards some hadn’t even realize what was happening at the time. “Honestly I kind of blacked out on stage I don’t even remember anything, when I heard the girls, I just started screaming I was honestly really happy. I just now found out that we won, I didn’t even know we had won I was so distracted in the moment,” Abbasi said.