According to Viking Vibe, powderpuff is “The sport (that) opposes gender roles commonly associated with the roles in a football game: the players and cheerleaders. The players must be girls and the cheerleaders are an all-guys team.” Every year, the seniors and juniors play an intense game of powderpuff. Last year, the juniors (now the seniors) dominated the field. The ending score was 33 to 6. This year, the tradition changed slightly when sophomores were invited to play on the junior team.
I interviewed the senior assistant coaches Anthony Lucente and Alex Modelski. Alex said, “I will do anything I can to help our girls beat the juniors.” That goes to show the dedication that goes into being an assistant coach. The seniors had seven players but the juniors only had five players so they had to pull sophomores, Elizabeth Rossi, Hadassah Rivera, and Aryana Romano. I asked the assistant coaches their opinion on bringing sophomores into a junior and senior tradition. Modelski said, “it's unfair but they need it because they are low on numbers.”
Lucente said, “It does not matter because we will still win, they can try to exercise their resources by using sophomores, but we will still brutally beat them.”
Overall the seniors are not fond of bringing sophomores into this. They believe it should stay a tradition between the juniors and seniors only. Mat Lucido, head coach for the junior powder puff team shared his point of view on the topic. “Obviously we didn't want to do it but we kinda had to,” Mat said. Lucido does not seem to be fond of bringing them into this either.
Powderpuff was held at the Lowellville football field on Sunday, November 6th at 6 pm. The seniors scored their first possession when Savannah Procick scored on a jet sweep. Frankie Lellio had multiple interceptions, and in the last quarter, Savannah Procick had a pick-six and scored off of it. Serina Tych caught a deep touchdown pass for the juniors in the second half. Sophia Alfano caught the 2-point conversion, together they put 8 points on the board.
In the end, the seniors brutally beat the junior/sophomore team for an ending score of 20 to 8.