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Leadership students Aadi Drain (’27) and Avery Shea (’25) start their day at 7:30am creating posters for the stands.
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Leadership student Rachel Thalman (’26) works before school to prepare posters for the Senior Area.
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Band students roll in speakers used to play music during the rally games. Their involvement highlights how organizing the event brings different student groups on campus together.
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Leadership students decorate the bleachers with balloons in each class’ colors. Green represents freshmen, blue sophomores, red juniors, and yellow seniors.
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The Freshman Class Officers worked to decide who would be in the rally and who would be hyping up the crowd.
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Representatives from each class line up on the football field, ready to compete. Dressed in their class colors, they go all out with wigs, flags, and other props.
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To start off the rally, all participants engage in a game of Wig Snatching. Once a participant loses their wig, they are out. The class with the last person remaining wins the point.
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Freshmen cheer and proudly raise their class flag as a teammate nears the end of the obstacle course, finishing the potato sack race.
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Abby Hiller (’27) and Charlotte Merrill (’27) run towards the audience, desperate to find the required items to complete the scavenger hunt round before the seniors.
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Senior and freshman class representatives carry cardboard boxes and rush toward their class towers. The team with the tallest tower that remains standing the longest wins the point.
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Benson Xu (’27) crawls underneath a pool noodle hurdle with strength and vigor, eager to finish the course and pass it off to the next teammate.
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The crowd smiles and cheers on their classmates while keeping close track of the score. Lighthearted moments, such as a classmate tripping during an obstacle, add to the energy of the event.
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After a lively series of games, challenges, and competitions, the audience quiets for a moment as the MCs announce the winner of this year’s Survivor Rally. The crowd goes wild in the senior section as the class of ’26 jumps for joy at the announcement of their win.
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As Rally Hosts Allison Medios (’26) and Nate Kelley (’26)ended the rally, fans cheered for the successful event.
Every year students look forward to the final rally of the year, the Survivor Rally. The Survivor Rally is a competition between the classes and the entire winning class is awarded an ice cream day in the quad.
“I love this rally because it’s one of the unique events on campus where we see the entire school come together and compete in a fun, relaxed environment,” said senior Alyssa Vu.
The event takes almost 3 months to plan. This year’s coordinators Nathan Marek (’26), Aleena Asaad (’27) and Aaraya Pandaya (’27) started working on the rally coming up with the games in January.
The events in the rally always include an obstacle course, but this year there were three new events added which include a wig snatching competition, a box stacking competition, and a scavenger hunt tic tac toe game which involved the entire crowd.
Students from every grade cheered, but it was the Freshman class that won the over spirit award for the day.
“We are really proud of everything the Leadership students put together this year. They really focused on events that would bring the entire crowd together,” said AV Leadership Adviser Wendy Connelly.
There was a special “social-media” activity where classes competed to see who could get the most students to repost the event on Instagram. This year the Seniors won and earned the bonus points.
At the end of the Survivor Rally the Juniors scored the highest amount of points in the games. This rally ended with a tie between the Juniors and Seniors since the Seniors had bonus points from the Instagram Challenge. The Leadership Class decided that the games would continue on Thursday April 23 with a face-off kick ball game.
“This is the first time we’ve ever had a tie, so we thought it would be fun to continue the excitement and do another event the following week. Anything we can do to continue building spirit and getting kids involved is a win for Amador!” said Connelly.
