The roar of the student section echoes through the entire football stadium and every student is on their feet, cheering and chanting together. The energy in the crowd is amplified by the fact that every student is dressed to match the theme of the game.

Whether that be wearing head to toe camouflage for camo night or cowboy boots and hats for western night, students enjoy dressing up for the games.

During football season, each game is given a different theme, and these themes allow students to get more involved in the student section. Junior Reese Miller enjoys this aspect of going to games.

“I feel like you get some creativity out of it. I like researching my outfits beforehand trying to figure out what I’m gonna wear,” Miller said.

In fact, Miller enjoys picking her outfits for the weekly themes so much that she started prepping for this year’s games over the summer.

“I looked for them on Pinterest, or I found Amazon links because I’ll keep reusing them,” Miller said. “I just used the ones from last year for this year because the themes keep repeating.”

Football isn’t the only sport that has themes; Jaguar Leadership Corps has worked hard to plan themes for all volleyball and soccer games as well. Senior JLC member Paige Roth hopes these themes will encourage more students to go to these games.

“There are so many other programs that work hard and don’t play on Friday nights when everyone’s available, so we want to have every sport get that same exposure and the same amount of people every game,” Roth said.

Roth believes that when people go with the themes for the week, it encourages participation.

“I think when you’re dressed up you look silly already,” Roth said. “If [the theme is] USA and you’re painting yourself red, white and blue, you’re more likely to cheer, to be loud, to be into the game, because you’re already dressed for it.”