Homecoming 2020 set next week
By Lynsi Musselman
Albany High School Homecoming 2020 festivities will not be as extensive this year, but the community is gearing up to cheer for the Lions against the Ranger Bulldogs on Friday, Oct. 12.
The homecoming game is planned for 7:00 p.m. at Robert Nail Memorial Stadium, after the initial Oct. 2 date was rescheduled.
Albany Independent School District super-intendent Jonathan Scott said the homecoming festivities this year will include the game and halftime program with the homecoming court.
AHS Homecoming Royalty
Candidates selected by the senior class for King and Queen are Torie Fuentes and Wesley Estridge. Nominees named by the junior class are Allison Hill and Jackson Chapman, while the sophomores chose Hannah Trail and Barrett Beal. The freshman candidates for king and queen are Carli Edgar and Ryder Wilkins.
All king and queen nominees are seniors, and the winners will be selected by the entire student body.
Princes and princesses were chosen for each of the other high school classes.
Junior honorees are Ana Balliew and Brooks Neece, while the sophomores elected are Brooke Kayga and Cole Chapman. Braylyn Abbate and Adam Hill are the royalty for the freshman class.
Other honorees selected include FFA Sweetheart Blanton Belcher and FFA Beau Brady Karl, Band Sweetheart Chey’Anne Weaver and Beau Jayden Clark, and Football Sweetheart Caitlan Lee escorted by Jaheim Newton.
Street Painting
Albany Athletic Booster Club secretary Tisha Wilkins said the traditional street painting will take place on Sunday, Oct. 11.
All athletes and parents, along with community volunteers, are welcome to meet at the high school at 2:00 p.m. to start hanging streamers around town. Others can join in after the National Honor Society induction.
Wilkins explained that at 5:00 p.m. the volleyball players, cheerleaders and their parents will meet at the high school to begin painting.
“The volleyball players will start in front of gym, and the cheerleaders will paint high school hill,” Wilkins added.
At 6:00 p.m., football players and parents will begin painting at the field house parking lot and then move to Main Street.
Wilkins emphasized that parents, especially dads, can help mix paint.
Volunteers will be needed again on Sunday, Oct. 17 to remove all the streamers that were put up on the previous Sunday.
