Hot Springs royalty crowned
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September 28, 2023
Ed Moreth
KING & QUEEN – The Hot Springs Homecoming Royalty Court poses for photographs. Candidates include: freshmen Ava Bouquet and Asher Parker, sophomores Callie Cano and Samson Jakabosky, juniors Queen Brooke Jackson and King Nick McAllister, and seniors Anjaleah Sheridan and Elijah Campbell.
Hot Springs Superintendent Gerald Chouinard said it's possible a new English monarch might go to volleyball games, but he was skeptical that the queen actually gets out on the floor to play after her coronation.
Shannon Brown
Hot Springs School was not short on spirit even with the cancellation of their football game on Friday. Everyone dressed up and participated in the parade on Thursday. The elementary students (above) walked and blew their kazoos to show their Savage Heat pride. They had three days of dressing up. Tuesday was American pride day, Wednesday was Hawaiian day and Thursday was red and black day.
The newly crowned Hot Springs king, Nick McAllister, 16, joined the over 100 fans in the bleachers and his queen, Brooke Jackson, 16, took to the floor with the rest of her Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat team Saturday evening. The newly crowned king and queen, both juniors, were among this year's Hot Springs Homecoming Royalty Court before the Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat and Two Eagle River Lady Eagles faced off Saturday. The other candidates included seniors Elijah Campbell, 17, and Anjaleah Sheridan, 17, sophomores Samson Jakabosky, 15, and Callie Cano, 15, and freshmen Asher Parker, 15, and Ava Bouquet, 14.
The student votes were tallied Thursday and they were to be presented Friday evening at the homecoming football game between Hot Springs and Gardiner, but the other team couldn't make it and the game was canceled, said Nancy Winebrenner, the school's district secretary and one of the royalty organizers. Instead, the school held its royalty event before the volleyball game.
McAllister said he was "kinda" sure he would be voted king, but Jackson was surprised and said she almost decided not to participate in the candidacy. None of the candidates had been previously nominated. The king and queen received only their crowns and bragging rights. Jackson, Cano and Bouquet are members of the Lady Savage Heat volleyball team and McAllister and Jakabosky are members of the Savage Heat football team.
It was also Hot Springs Alumni Appreciation Night. Each alumnus was given a free hamburger or hot dog. Winebrenner said they had 37 former Hot Springs graduates, with Clayton White as the furthest back from the class of 1952.
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