September 13, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
A homecoming celebration!
Fresh off a 45-27 homecoming victory over Watertown Thursday night, the DCHS Tiger football team, fellow students, faculty, parents, and fans continued to share in the exuberance Friday afternoon during a big parade.
The motorcade, featuring class and club floats, Homecoming queen Caroline Crook and her court, the Tiger football program and other athletic teams and cheerleaders, Mr and Miss DCHS Jordan Parker and Annabella Dakas, decorated automobiles, emergency vehicles, and more made its way from the high school down West Broad Street and then to South Congress Boulevard over to Smithville Elementary School and then north on Congress Boulevard to Northside Elementary where the DCHS band joined the parade enroute to the public square. The parade concluded with a brief performance by the band and a pep rally led by the Tiger Football Cheerleaders.
The FFA Club won first place in the float competition
Second place went to the Senior Class float
The Junior Class float took third place
In the best decorated vehicle category, Chase Vaughn in a Kia Optima won first place. Mara Oakley in a Kia Soul took second place and Cheyenne Martin in a 1972 F100 got third place. Adison Summers in a Dodge Ram received honorable mention