Honor’s Olympics

    On Friday, November 18, Stockton’s Honors Program held the Honors Olympics in the I-wing gym. Upon entering the pizza filled gym, we were split into two teams and thrown onto the court for an intense game of knockout. The winner would be the team captain and choose their team. While I was knocked out after three rounds, it was an intense game. We crowned a victor, chose teams, and began.

    The first game was dodgeball. Foam balls were flying across the gymnasium and, in the end, my team won both rounds. We quickly moved on to volleyball with the score 3-0. We used a beach ball and mapped out the borders after much deliberation over the most appropriate bounds. They started with a classic basketball jump, and the other team got the first serve. The rules were simple — no out of bounds, no spiking. The rest was fair game. After thirty minutes of intense play, profanities, and dives we won, pushing us further into the lead.

    Finally, we moved onto the most intense game of all, the hulla hoop. Each team member held hands and attempted to get a hula hoop over their head, past their feet, and onto the next member. The team to drop the hoop on the floor first was the winner. We won the first round easily, however, we dropped the ball on the second, allowing team two their first victory. In the end, we were able to have a ton of fun and we won by a landslide.

-Eryn Swineford