JOSH HERMANSTORFER and JANE BOYD –
The View –
A year long celebration starts off with high hopes that the new fight song will spread school spirit as Castle View High School enters its tenth year.
Student Government’s adviser, Robert Sutterer, along with the help of Sam Hermanstorfer, student body president, made a choice to incorporate the song with the annual competition of Showdown. Putting the song in showdown will “Help Calhoun and Cellar promote it [the fight song] and have the entire school know it,” said Sutterer.
Hermanstorfer ‘16 said that he loves the new song because of its catchiness and easiness to learn. He is aiding Sutterer in making the fight song known throughout the school. “If you don’t know the fight song for your Showdown event, then you’re going to lose Showdown and nobody wants to lose Showdown.”
The fight song has already been widespread throughout the student body.
After the back to school dance, a large group of students shouted the lyrics as they exited the building.
Following the first football game of the season, the entire team stood in front of the crowd and sang the fight song. CV fans joined in as the spirit of the game continued, even though the team had experienced a tough loss.
Trenton Rohman ‘16, Castle View’s starting quarterback, likes the new song better than the one made when Castle View opened its doors in 2005. “It makes me play harder when I hear it,” Rohman said, “I want to win for my team and the fans.”
Other students find it neat that the football team is so involved with the fight song. “The fact that the football players know it and sing it after every game will help because there’s a lot of students that look up to football players,” said Hermanstorfer.
The football players are only a small population of the school, but their impact on school spirit is powerful. When they sing the fight song, it creates a high-spirited atmosphere for fans and students to join in. “The goal is to have a positive impact so the fans will sing it after a good play and teams will sing it after games,” Athletic director Derek Cordes said, “Everyone can participate in it.”
As for the goal of the fight song, Hermanstorfer said, “We want to get to the point where people will get to their fifty-year reunion and sing the fight song.”