{"id":740,"date":"2017-10-24T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=740"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:52:18","slug":"school-spirit-soars-at-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/10\/24\/school-spirit-soars-at-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"School Spirit Soars at Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allie Verdesca (VI)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On a beautiful, hot Saturday in early October, Pingry hosted its annual Back-to-School Day and Homecoming. Just over 900 parents arrived promptly at 8:15 AM, prepared to experience a day in the life of their children\u2019s schedule and a chance to say hello to their teachers. After a morning full of interesting discussions and back-to-school memories, the Homecoming events began in earnest. The focus this year was Pingry sports, celebrating the school\u2019s beautiful new athletic spaces, including the football team\u2019s new stadium and turf field.<\/span><\/p>\n

A group of 700 students, parents, and Pingry alumni attended the festivities. Lunch was a bountiful barbeque, featuring hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled vegetables, and a table of delicious desserts, all made possible by the dedicated men and women from Sage Dining. Sporting events went on throughout the day, including water polo, boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 soccer, football, and field hockey. Visiting alumni could also participate in either a field hockey or a soccer game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pingry\u2019s teams played well, especially boys\u2019 soccer, beating its archrivals Holmdel with a nail-biting victory of 1-0. Captain Vineil Reddy (VI) accredited the win to a pre-game session by mental performance coach and psychology teacher Dr. Fisher and some Pingry soccer alumni, who encouraged the team to \u201cfocus on controlling the \u2018controllables\u2019\u201d of the game. Reddy acknowledges the importance of this game to the morale of the soccer team, coming into the game with an overall record of 6-3-1. He believes that \u201cthis was the first game in which every single member of the team was completely focused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The soccer team was not the only one flaunting a victory. The field hockey team also won its game against Ridge, 5-2, with the help of junior Josie Jahng, who scored two goals and had one assist. The water polo team notched a strong win against Lawrenceville 10-7. However, the girls\u2019 soccer team suffered a close defeat, losing 2-1 in overtime against Bernards. The football team also lost a high-scoring heartbreaker, 49-48, against Fieldston, with Obi Nnaeto (VI) scoring four touchdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the Balladeers and the Buttondowns made their musical debuts for the year, singing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d and \u201cOld John Pingry\u201d before the athletic competitions that day. While the games were occurring, children enjoyed games and face painting, and all attendees received free t-shirts. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the athletic festivities were over, student council held its annual Homecoming dance themed \u201cUnder the Sea,\u201d an evening full of music and friends. Senior Sehyr Khan says she \u201cenjoyed all the fun outfits with her peers.\u201d The dance was not only a rousing success but also a great way to raise money for the student council, and it marked the end of a pride-filled spirit week, complete with a pep-rally and themed dress down days throughout to keep spirits high. Overall, this year\u2019s Homecoming was a great day to celebrate Pingry pride.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Allie Verdesca (VI) On a beautiful, hot Saturday in early October, Pingry hosted its annual Back-to-School Day and Homecoming. Just over 900 parents arrived promptly at 8:15 AM, prepared to experience a day in the life of their children\u2019s schedule and a chance to say hello to their teachers. After a morning full of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","tag-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}