Note to Readers: This story was contributed to RNN Sports by Mr. Glenn Parrish, Director of Communications, for the Booneville School District. Mr. Parrish will be contributing Bearcats sports stories to RNN Sports. We are excited to have Glenn and the Booneville Bearcats as part of our sports coverage, and we know you will enjoy reading his stories!
The Booneville School District held its second All For One Day across its athletic facilities.
Named for the oft cited phrase “All For One, One For All Bearcats All The Way” utilized by various teams, All For One Day is a bonding event with a goal of building or strengthening teamwork, and familiarity across the school’s athletic program.
The event also serves as an introduction of sorts for the incoming seventh grade athletes.
All told here were almost 220 athletes and individual team support staff – all in matching T-shirts bearing the All For One, One For All slogan – competing on five teams in events in the safe room, gym, and field house.
In each case the competition was team timed and was, of course, athletic in nature. Volleyball was the theme in the safe room and included volley placement along with a bunny hop hurdle series and a towel push.
In the gym there was a Vertimax band pull, a dumbbell carry, followed by a sprint and layup.
In the fieldhouse there was another dummy jump, bear crawling, a sled push, running up then down stairs, and forming the word CATS with the bodies of the teammates.
Each of five teams, which were dictated as far as senior high athletes were concerned, with junior high athletes added randomly, was ranked in each event with the teams winning the event earning five points, the second place team four and so forth.
Images Above: Special to RNN Sports / Glenn Parrish, Booneville Schools
After the competition the Black team lead by Coach Rachael May was in first place with the Purple team of Coach Katelyn Holub and White team of Coach Chad Simpson tied for second, necessitating a tiebreaker for the second spot in the finals competition.
A tiebreaker game of C-A-T saw Jace Washburn beat Raiden Ferguson to earn the White team the spot in the finals.
From there, the White team won an obstacle course race that included a sprint, jump rope series, medicine ball carry, and a zig-zag cone touch.
The margin of victory was very narrow as Cam Osborne was the final member of the White team completing the series as Sara Ulmer, the final member of the Black team, about to embark on the medicine ball carry.
Athletic Director Josh Walker, who was behind the creation of the event last year, has already set July 19, 2023 as the date for the third annual event.
