By Zach Dietiker
As the O'Dea students file into the gym, the stands get filled and the atmosphere becomes intense with energy running through the students getting ready to get rowdy for the school they love.
The O'Dea leaders, School captain Kyle Lofy '24 along with Vice captains Keegan Cabrera '24 and Eli Hough '24 host this year's winter sports assembly including our classic roll calls, Christmas themed games and winter sport captains giving season introductions.
We started the assembly off in prayer as always led by Simeon Olech '24. After that we got into our roll calls with some up and down emotions. Kilkenny started off rough, but then Dublin brought back with the energy with a creative chant. We then saw limericks which was very mediocre, and Waterford ended it off with a we are ready chant that probably couldn't be heard across the hallway...
After we got done with the roll call, Coach Kohler came to the podium to honor two football players, Jason brown '24 and Isendre Ahfua '24 for being chosen to play in the Adidas All-American game in Texas. The last player to get it from O'Dea was Taylor Mays '06 showing how cool this is to have two players in one year.
After these students were honored, we moved into our games! The first game was Christmas carols sung by five representatives from each house. This was supposed to be a competition yet turned into the whole school singing the song so there was no clear winner. We had good energy coming from Kyan McDonald and Luke D'anna encouraging that school spirit.
We then moved into the Winter sport introductions with basketball, wrestling, and swim & dive. The basketball team captains are Patrick Galvin '24, Noel Davis '24, Brian Shannon '24 and Malcolm Clark '24. These are all very skilled players, so the O'Dea basketball season is in very good hands with these seniors. Wrestling then gave their season intro with Janio Molieri '24 and Chris Ceja '24 two seniors who have been wrestling since freshman year, so we are in good hands with wrestling as well. Lastly swimming, we had Luke Hardy '24 open up with some energy then passing it off to Davis LeClercq '24 who told us the team is TWICE as big as last years and have the whole state team returning so we are in good hands with swimming as well.
Last but not least, the best of them all, the sled race to close to the assembly. Each house chose their smallest person to lay on a sled that will lie on top of eight other students from each house trying to push the sled across the gym with only their bodies and rolling. Before students got on the sled, they had to get dressed in ski goggles, snow pants, scarf, and a jacket before they could start. When it got going it was hectic, everyone was all over the place running around not knowing who's going to win. In the end there was some confusion toward who won, but Kilkenny came out on top.
Dean then walks up to the podium to close off the assembly and dismiss the students. Coming From an O'Dea leader this assembly was a great success -- O'Dea strikes again with another action-packed event.
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