*UPDATE Feb. 29, 2024: Unlike previously reported, the student section for today’s GEHS state basketball game is section 101, under the North hoop. We apologize for our error and any confusion.
Tomorrow the girl’s basketball team will make the trek down to the Pinnacle Bank Area to take on the Waverly Vikings in the Class B State Championship quarterfinals at 3:15 p.m. The girls look to be the first team to win a game at State if they take down the Vikings. Looking for all the help they can get, they hope fans can make their way down to Lincoln.
As for the rest of the student body, they will be allowed to leave school at 1:30 p.m., or after sixth period, if they meet the requirements that administration put out for students to be eligible to be marked “School Activity” in attendance rather than unexcused absence.
Those requirements are: students must not have any incomplete or missing assignments, and they must have a parent or guardian call the office to grant permission for them to go.
Administrators and arena officials have also announced that fans may not bring signs, banners nor balloons. Also, there will be a clear bag policy.
Knowing these rules will be enforced, students have organized another way to cheer on the Griffins. They decided to make the game a black-out theme. Students should sit in section 101, or behind the north side basketball hoop, unlike the game against volleyball. This is a change from prior years when the Dragons qualified for the tournament. According to Athletic Director Ryan Garder, Griffin fans will also be expected to only cheer for the Griffins and not against their opponents.
“It’s not about getting in the other teams head,” Garder said. “It’s about cheering your team on. Just being as rowdy as you can be without making it personal and without attacking the performance of the opponent.”
Naz Reid • Feb 28, 2024 at 9:40 pm
I respectfully have to disagree with Mr. Garder’s thoughts on the GEHS student’s cheering guidelines. The thing is, the objective of every student section is the same thing, get in the other team’s head and do your best to help your home team win. Now, I don’t know about you guys but, every high school basketball game that I’ve been to this year, the administrators representing opposing schools seem to acknowledge the student’s objective and allow them to get in the other team’s head, within profanity guidelines of course. I guess what I’m trying to say is, why is gretna east the only school being restricted from cheering against opposing school’s when they have to watch/listen to other student sections rooting against our very own players? It just doesn’t make sense.