Walnut Grove Shows Off Their Spirit Day Attire

Walnut Grove students show their spirit and dress up for the 2026 HOCO Spirit Week. Spirit Week at Walnut Grove allows students to fulfill their excitement leading up to Homecoming night.
by Corynne Cox, Audrey Ford, and Quinn Fleming

​Monday (Celebrity Day)
​Veronica Evelyn Nzekwe is a sophomore here at Walnut Grove High School! For Celebrity Day, Veronica fully dressed up. “I’m dressed up as Steve Harvey from Family Feud!” She wore a full suit and a bald cap, and she topped it off with a drawn-on mustache. “My favorite spirit day is going to be Soccer Mom vs. Soccer Dad…” Veronica is very excited for Soccer Mom vs. Soccer Dad because she is wearing a “…fat stomach thing I found on Amazon; I also got a blonde wig from Goodwill.” She loves to dress up every day and show her spirit, but her least favorite spirit day is Wild West. “Western day is cute, but it’s not that cool. I don't want to see yee-haw and boots; I want to see beards and toes out.” Veronica is prepared to have a great time at the pep rally on Friday. She plans to perform well with the color guard! She says, “Color guard is going to eat this down...”

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Tuesday (Wild West)
​Walnut Grove freshman Xavier Trask dressed up as a cowboy for Wild West Spirit Day. He styled up with a red shirt, bootcut jeans, and crocodile boots, and he completed the look with a cowboy hat. He wishes Walnut Grove could add Anything But a Backpack Day to our spirit week: “…Anything But a Backpack Day, because there would be a lot of options to choose from. I’d bring a cooler.” Similarly, Xavier views Color War Day as bland: “We could do more.” He is most excited for Movie Genre Day because he has a ton of options to choose from. Xavier is also ready for the pep rally this Friday: "I feel great. I’m excited, and I’m ready to be loud and active.”

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Wednesday (Soccer Mom vs. Soccer Dad)
​Melanie Carter, a sophomore here at WGHS, represents the soccer dads! She dressed up in her soccer dad attire and added a fake belly to top it all off: “…the belly is all natural, all natural baby.” Melanie’s favorite spirit day this week is Movie Genre Day. One spirit day Melanie wishes she could add would be Country vs. Country Club. Melanie is so hyped for the pep rally on Friday! "Oh, I'm so hyped! I'm so hyped for the pep rally; I'm so, so hyped for the pep rally. We're going to be in there and the band is going to be doing cadences like up, down, left, right, up, down, left, right. And everybody's going to be like 'Woo! Woo!'...”

Alyn Moon is a junior at Walnut Grove; she is dressed up as a soccer mom! Her mom is a soccer mom, so she is wearing all the “real” soccer mom attire: "I have this soccer mom t-shirt from my mom's closet; I got these soccer earrings from my mom's closet…” Alyn’s least favorite spirit day is Celebrity Day: “…celebrity, because I forgot it was on a Monday and I didn't have anything to wear, and everybody did Adam Sandler, including myself." Alyn is very hyped for the pep rally and is wearing black to represent the junior class.

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Thursday (Movie Genre)
Coach Moon, a teacher at Walnut Grove, dressed up as Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas for Movie Genre Day. He wore a onesie costume, and his family was also a part of it: “I chose Jack Skellington because my daughter Skylar, in Wee Warriors, wanted me to be Jack Skellington this year. She wanted to be Sally, my wife is going to be the Boogeyman, and then my son, who is one, is going to be Zero, the dog.” Coach Moon’s favorite spirit day this week was Celebrity Day, where he dressed up as Post Malone. He had the grill, the face tats—basically everything. His least favorite theme was today. He says, “This may hurt my daughter’s feelings, but probably today. I feel like today was the little lazy one, you know, but I did it for her. This is, you know, Jack Skellington. I could have done something a lot more creative. I really was probably going to be the Joker if I got to choose. I have a really good Joker outfit, so probably today.” If there was anything Mr. Moon could add to this week’s spirit day themes, it would be dressing up as your favorite sports person, no matter what sport it is. Coach Moon is excited for the pep rally on Friday; spirits will be very high.


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WGHS students can't wait to finish off their spirit week with Homecoming night! Dressing up is always a fun thing to do, and it gives everyone a chance to show off their outfits to their peers!

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