The Best Day of the Year

This Saturday was my absolute, number one, 100% complete favorite holiday of the entire year.

The fun and anticipation of Homecoming 2015 started on Thursday with a hilarious night of dances, rapping, singing and skits. Kohawk Rock is an annual talent show put on by the homecoming committee to introduce the Homecoming Court nominees to the rest of campus. Each member of court and any other brave Kohawk with an impressive talent has six minutes on stage to showcase their special talents while the entire school watches and votes upon the best performance. One of my best friends and fellow homecoming court nominee, Alexis Lichty and I decided to hold a lip sync battle between us and some of our friends for our skits. We dressed up as members of a girl band, convinced our best guy friends to wear wigs and (attempted to) memorize the lyrics to a few popular girl band songs. As embarrassing as it was to make the entire school aware of my terrible dancing and singing skills, we had an absolute blast making fools of ourselves and watching our friends do the same.

Dressed and ready for our Kohawk Rock lipsync battle!

Friday morning, I woke up early and ready to start the weekend off right with a big win. My team and I traveled to Indianola, Iowa to take on the Simpson Storm in one of our biggest games of the season. After a well fought game and an important 2-1 win, we earned a bid to the Iowa Conference tournament and checked one of our season goals off the list. I was so unbelievably proud of my team and so thrilled to start my senior homecoming weekend off with a huge victory!

I rushed home from Simpson to make it back to Coe just in time for one of the biggest productions Coe has ever put on: the Eby-Hickok Renovation Campaign. Two buildings on campus are about to undergo substantial renovations that will greatly improve the experience of students and athletes at Coe for many years to come and the college was very eager to showcase all the upcoming changes to students and alums. We brought in some impressive Coe alums, heard from our President, watched awesome videos and enjoyed a great environment and tasty refreshments. As soon as the excitement of the #MakeYourMove campaign was over, it was time to crown the 2015 Homecoming King and Queen!


Queen Molly Boland, King Tre Cotton and their Royal Court

Saturday morning came very quickly and before I knew it, I was up and running the Homecoming 5k with my beautiful teammates. The theme of our homecoming weekend was "Sustainable Coe" so we all dressed in as many layers of blue clothes as possible and taped big recycling arrows on our backs to signify our support of recycling across campus. We ran through the residential streets of Cedar Rapids and finished our run on our brand new track to drink hot chocolate, win prizes and celebrate Coe with tons of alumni and current students.



Coe College Women's Soccer showing support for recycling during the Homecoming 5k!

Tailgating with some of my favorite Coe Alumni at the Homecoming football game.

Ready to take on the homecoming dance with my beautiful teammate, Jordan Holmes.

After such an awesome week of fun, going back to classes today is certainly going to be hard, but I am happy to have so many fond memories of Homecoming 2015. Although next year will be a much different experience, it is great to know that Once A Kohawk, Always A Kohawk :)

XOXO,
Hannah 

After a quick shower we were all ready to head off to the big football game! Coe football took on the Simpson Storm in front of a stadium jam packed with Kohawks both past and present. We tailgated all morning and had a blast reconnecting with all our friends and alumni visiting for the weekend and hanging out with our current Kohawk family. After the game, we put on some fancy dresses and took Coe busses downtown to the DoubleTree Hotel for the big homecoming dance. We had an awesome DJ, tons of free food and plenty of dancing and laughing for all of Coe College.