DCHS Students Parade Their “Tiger Pride” Through Town (View Video Here)

September 30, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County High School students paraded their “Tiger Pride” from one end of town to the other Friday afternoon on the last day of Homecoming Spirit Week.

The Tiger football team’s homecoming opponent tonight (Friday night) is the Livingston Academy Wildcats and the floats in the parade had a Tiger versus Wildcats theme.

The parade featured Homecoming Queen Reese Williams and her attendants, Deanna Agee, Carlee West, Hannah Trapp, Sadie Moore, and Caroline Crook, the DCHS Fighting Tiger Band, the football team, cheerleaders, Mr and Miss DCHS Colby Barnes and Morgan Walker, class and club floats, other high school athletes, lots of decorated cars and trucks, emergency vehicles, among others. The event concluded with a pep rally on the square led by DCHS Football cheerleaders.

Winners in the Float Competition were:

First Place- Junior Class: “I Smell Victory, Tigers Put A Spell on the Wildcats”

Second Place-Senior Class: “Tigers Flatten the Wildcats”

Third Place- Sophomore Class: “Wildcats are Lookin’ for Trouble”

Best decorated automobiles:

First Place Ansley Cantrell

Second Place-McKenzie Sanders

Third Place- Mason Winter

Honorable Mention-Dixie Hill

FCCLA sponsored Homecoming Business Decorating Competition: First Place-Cantrell’s Clothing (Fluty)

Spirit Stick Award Winners-

First Place- Senior Class

Second Place- Junior Class

Third Place- Sophomore Class

Fourth Place-Freshman Class

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