Weeks before school started, a group of seniors feel that Creek’s overall school spirit could still use a little push. The school had seemed to lack a certain ferocity of pride and spirit that every high school should have. Rather than complain, they decided to do something about it.

Club Adrenaline was formed long before the bell rang on the first day of school, and by the time the first students arrived on campus Monday morning, the members had put up signs around the school so that every student would see that this year was going to be special.

“Last year was kind of boring,” explains Club Adrenaline founder Dustin Hobaugh, 12th. “There wasn’t a lot of school spirit.”

Dustin Hobaugh and cofounder Brooke Lera plan to change all that.

Club Adrenaline sends squads of spirited students to Creek sporting events to cheer on the athletes, hoping to push the athletes to a victory and to encourage more students to attend the games.

“They want to have Courtside Crazies for volleyball and Left-side Loudmouths for baseball,” says Ms. Latulippe, giving examples of how Club Adrenaline will support Creek’s teams. “They want to get all fired up.”

On Friday, August 27, 2010, at Club Adrenaline’s first official meeting, founders Hobaugh and Lera dove right into business with a cafeteria full of new members. Everyone participated in the brainstorming, chanting and cheering. The energy in the room was flowing as every member practiced chants like, “Way down in the African jungle, we can hear the wildcats rumble. Rumble, Wildcats, rumble!”

“There’s not a lot of spirit at Creek right now, and I want to help change that,” says Laura Paige Brightwell, 10th, a new member of Club Adrenaline, expressing an idea that many shared.

Brightwell, like so many others who came to the first meeting, is glad that there is finally a movement to improve school spirit.