Homecoming Dance is different for boys and girls

Homecoming Dance is different for boys and girls

by Evan Albright

Flyer Flash, Editor

ST. GEORGE - As Homecoming neared, expectations ran high. Homecoming is the first dance of the year and a formal one at that. 

The girls are start to get worried about what they will wear and if somebody will ask them; while the guys seem to go solely because their friends pressure them or they are hoping for a possible doorstep scene.

For the girls, the joy comes in building memories. Dixie alumnus Kristen Cooper said, “For me, when it comes to a formal dance I want it to be romantic and to build a relationship with my date... I don’t want it to be just so the guy can kiss me at the end!”

When asked what her biggest worries were she said “I would die if I got to the dance and another girl had the same dress! Us girls put a lot of preparation into this stuff and it sucks when another girl did the same thing.”

Homecoming: Now and Then

Class of 1972 celebrates Homecoming Week by decorating a float for a parade. Picture taken in 1970.
Photo Credit: The Dixie 100 Blog, Dixie High School

Homecoming: Now and Then

by Stefani Johannsen

Flyer Flash, Editor

ST. GEORGE - The first homecoming in of Dixie's next 100 years has come and gone. But the memories of the first 100 years of Dixie and homecoming games and dances will live in the hearts of Dixie alumni forever.

Science teacher Jason Brooks says that even though we're in a new building, the feeling is the same from when he went here, “There's something different about Dixie, the spirit is really here.” Mr. Brooks has been teaching at Dixie High School for 6 years. 24 years ago he was in his senior year at Dixie High School.

Mr. Brooks started playing high school football in his sophomore year and he usually played tight end or receiver. Dixie was small, only about 1000 students for all four grades of high school at that time just as Pine View was opening. "Homecoming isn't as big of a deal as it was then," Mr. Brooks remembers. Although most of the traditions are the same, it seems Homecoming has lost some of its excitement. Perhaps it was the feel that football season was coming, the first game, the first big dance, things like this could probably give most kids a lot of excitement.

Twenty-four years ago, homecoming was accompanied by a homecoming parade. The football, the dance, and the voting for royalty are pretty much the same now as they were then.  Football games took place at Hansen stadium over at Dixie college. The football team would usually play a team that would guarantee them a win. Mr. Brooks' senior year homecoming game was against Hurricane High School with the Flyers trouncing the Tigers 35-0.

The Homecoming Royalty

The Homecoming Royalty is presented and the Homecoming King and Queen is crowned during half-time at the football game.
Photo Credit: Shaun Smith, The Dixie Blog

The Homecoming Royalty

by Heidi Harris

Flyer Flash, Staff Writer

ST. GEORGE - Homecoming Royalty is one of the biggest opportunities for a student to have during their high school years. Each student in the senior class gets to be nominated for being on the royalty. After voting, the Executive Council tallies up the nominations to get the end result of the students chosen for royalty.

At the football game a crowd of students sit and wait while the royalty comes in a line of cars on the track to find out who had won the Homecoming King and Queen. Once all the Royalty was in their line, the previous King and Queen, Taylor Cox and Kaitlyn Hune, walked out and presented the new King and Queen, Justin Crapo and Dasya Porras their crowns.

Questions come to students minds on who will win the Homecoming King and Queen. When asked who he thought thought will win, Jordan Bickel, a senior, replied "I thought for sure it would be Justin Crapo. But i wasn't exactly sure who the queen would be. All of the royalty were awesome and I would have hope for everyone to win."

Flyer Pride still evident after disappointing loss to Hurricane Tigers

Flyer Pride still evident after disappointing loss to Hurricane Tigers

by Samantha Aldrich

Flyer Flash, Editor

ST. GEORGE - Excitement, spirit, crowds going wild, and the tough competition made up Dixie’s Homecoming Football game vs. Hurricane. 

The face painting started off Dixie’s, “We believe that we will win!” saying. 

When walking aroundm the colors Blue and White swarmed the atmosphere and the crowd was going crazy before the kick-off had even begun. 

The Cheerleaders, Jettettes, and Football team gathered with Hurricane’s and chanted their own words and songs while being filmed on KSL. The group was loud and very competitive.

When the stands were filled with crazy school fanatics the KSL helicopter was hovering around Walt Brooks Stadium and decided to land in the middle of the football field! 

As people were trying to get a better look, one of the doors opened and Tadd Challis stepped out with his leg brace on and triumphantly walked down the middle of the field to his teammates.

No. 2 Dixie Flyers face off against No. 1 Hurricane Tigers

No. 2 Dixie Flyers face off against No. 1 Hurricane Tigers

by Tristan Cowles

Flyer Flash, Sports


ST. GEORGE - As the top two ranked football teams in 3A looked at each other from across Flyer Field, they waited to prove their dominance of region 9.


When the game kicked off, Walt Brooks Stadium was full of anticipating eyes to see these two undefeated schools go at it.

It didn’t take long for Hurricane to show their control over Dixie with a 51-21 victory.


Blake Barney threw for almost 300 yards and three touchdowns, but also had two interceptions and a fumble.

One hundred fifty of his yards were to Justin Cummings, who had two catches and both were touchdowns. One went for 80 yards and the other for 70.


Even with 300 yards passing the Flyers still seemed to miss wide receiver Tadd Challis who is out for season with a torn ACL and MCL, which he suffered in the game against Pine View. “You’ve got to make the most of what you have, because you never know when it might end,” Is what he said when asked about the injury.

Behind the Homecoming Dance

Behind the Homecoming Dance

by Tyler Johnson

Flyer Flash, Staff Writer

ST. GEORGE - The theme for this year’s homecoming “Flying without wings” has had a tremendous amount of work put into it.

Many months of planning, choosing the theme, selecting where the dance is, and many other tasking things, also because the amount of effort put into this year’s homecoming is so great the dance is the best way to start off a new year. 

Several key people where interviewed to find more information on the process and effort being put into bringing this dance into play.

When interviewed about the thought behind the theme, the dance director Emma Pasley from Executive council replied “Our main goal of Exec. this year is to bring back the spirit of the school, the theme of 'Flying without wings' means even though we don’t have wings we are flyers with our pride.”

This shows that the Exec. council is going beyond past years, instilling deep meanings and tradition into the ideas of homecoming.

Interviewee Emma was later asked how much time was put into the theme and stated “I’ve been planning this dance since May, I’ve also been thinking about it every day, it has been a habit to sit down and plan, for almost five months I’ve been planning this dance.”

"Flying Without Wings"

"Flying Without Wings"

by Sara Jewkes

Flyer Flash, Staff Writer

ST. GEORGE - Choosing the theme song for Homecoming was very difficult for senior, Emma Pasely. “ There are so many songs that have to do with flying”, she says. So she chose “Flying without Wings” because it is everyone’s goal this year to “bring back the Dixie spirit and pride”. Emma said why she chose this specific song was because “ it talks about once you find friendship and love in high school you are ‘ “flying without wings”.

Flying without Wings is sung by Westlife. The song is really popular in the United Kingdom and many other parts of the world. Flying without Wings was on Pokemon: The Movie 2000. In 2002, the band re-recorded the song with Cristian Castro and BoA. The song became the group's third number 1 single, spending 13 weeks on charts. A member of the band named Wayne Hector, said “I came up with a couple of lines for the first verse and then phoned my mama’s house, left it on the answering machine, and said,  'Don’t get rid of this!'”

Flying without Wings was sung by a senior, Shayla Wilkinson, at the Homecoming assembly. She listened to the song at least sixty times before she began singing along with it to school. She says, “I had never really sung in front of anyone besides my steering wheel and shower head.” Everyone gets nervous while performing in front of a huge audience but when Shayla started singing, saw all the people waving their phones, and hearing everyone clapping it made her super happy and she felt more confident. The assembly ended with a great applause and suspicion of who would win the Homecoming Royalty. Shayla made that whole assembly on to remember. Great job Shayla!

Loveland propels Class of 2012 to victory in PowderPuff

Loveland propels Class of 2012 to victory in PowderPuff

by Will DeViney

Flyer Flash, Sports

ST. GEORGE - Looks like the football team may be getting a new wide receiver.  Ex volleyball player, senior Megan Loveland, put together an incredible performance for the class of 2012, as the seniors once again won the annual powderpuff game. 

This one came down to the wire, as regulation was not enough time to decide the game.  Tied 7-7, the game went into overtime, where the seniors were eventually able to overcome the scrappy juniors.

The powderpuff football game is a Dixie High Homecoming week tradition.  This tradition was renewed on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at Walt Brooks Stadium. 

It was a great night for football; the weather was cool, the players were prepped, and the cheerleaders looked their best.  “I just love the way the cheer uniform makes my muscles pop out” says cheerleader Mack Peterson.

The junior class was the first to get on the scoreboard, when senior quarterback Dharienne Tapusoa’s pass was intercepted by junior Nicole Mahi.  Mahi took it 40 yards to the end zone to give the juniors a 7-0 lead. The juniors would take that lead into halftime.

The juniors appeared to be driving midway through the second half, determined to put the game away.  But that drive would end on a fantastic diving interception by Megan Loveland, one of two interceptions made by Loveland.

Flyer men prove they can fill in for cheerleaders at PowderPuff Game

PowderPuff Cheerleaders pose for the camera during the game, as part of Homecoming Week 2011.
Photo Credit: Lauren Christensen, Senior

Flyer men prove they can fill in for cheerleaders at PowderPuff Game

by Mack Peterson

Flyer Flash, Sports

ST. GEORGE- PowderPuff football is one of Dixie's most exciting events of the year. Whenever football is played, cheerleading is a necessity to increase fan spirit and morale.

But since all of the cheerleaders and stud girls of the school are out tearing up the field, someone needs to step in and cheer.

Thankfully some muscular, athletic, and definitely good looking boys can fill the cheerleaders place in rallying the crowd. There are no tryouts, no fees, and for sure no one that doesn't enjoy being a cheerleader.

It all starts with signing up at the front office just requiring contact information for the cheer coaches to contact all of the studly boys.

Practices started two weeks before the game. It gave everyone time to prepare for the halftime show and weeded out the cheerleaders that weren't dedicated enough. The first practice started right after school in the dance facility.

At least thirty boys showed up with high aspirations of becoming a Dixie High cheerleader. Everyone was overjoyed and plenty of hip throwing was included in the dance moves. "I love this kind of practice cause I can just stare at my muscles in the mirror the whole time,” said Will DeViney.

How were you asked?

How were you asked?

by Brandy Kraiprai

Flyer Flash, Staff Writer

ST. GEORGE - Some people deliver roses, others say it to their face, and some vandalize each other’s property, but no matter which way you ask, there’s always a cute story behind asking someone to homecoming.

A ‘mystery man’ delivered flour to Dixie junior, Skylie McArthur’s seventh period class, but not so she could use it to bake with. “What the heck?” she asked wondering if it was an invitation to the dance. “Do i really have to sift through all this?” Needless to say, there was no answer to that question in the bag of flour.

In her last class she received four roses with a note that said. “OOPS!! I delivered the wrong ‘flower’, will you go to homecoming with me?” Skylie “sweet” answer ended with a yes.