The 71st Neshaminy High School (NHS) Gym Night is celebrated with another victorious win for the blue team. March 1 brought tears, laughter, and smiles through the amazing bonding that occurs throughout Gym Night.
The final score showed 44-30 as the blue team swept points away with their dances and relays.
Congrats to the 2024- 2025 blue team captains. The Freshmen and Sophomore blue captains were Chloe Brison, Kevin Doris, Gavin Hart, Celia Horton, Promise Adebayo, Mia Brooks, Connor Choi, and Kendall Kilgariff. The blue Junior and Senior captains were Cameron Andujar, Casey Baltzer, Michael Chichilitti, Cassidy Cush, Lainey Clark, Paige Comer, Bryce Hannings, and Steven Hitchen. Finally, were the two blue Color Captains Josh Anderson and Ava Arbakov.
Even though the blue team won Gym Night, anyone who participated is a winner, as it taught participants and captains valuable skills and lessons of resilience, perseverance, and the importance of community.
“It solidified my own leadership skills, so I know what I can do and how I can help people. It’s been a big part of my life,” Color Captain Arbakov shared.
Red team Color Captain, Caroline Rodgers, feels Gym Night has changed her, sharing that she “learned how to be outspoken and more outgoing and not be scared of what people think [and] just how to be a leader.”
Ben Long was the red Color Captain along with Rodgers. The red Senior and Junior captains were Kyler Nelson, Keira Siwinski, Biz Toto, Joey Willse, Jaxon Olszewski, Emmy Rooney, Mia Stock, and Connor Triano. There are also the Sophomore and Freshman red captains: Ryan Lackey, Aubrey Mcgeady, Mason Ponist, Taylor Tenaglia, Leah Shedaker, Kyla Loftus, May Pileggi, and Nick Turchi.
Every single person involved with Gym Night leaves with a smile. The “voices” of Gym Night, Mrs. Kim Montone and Mr. James Maloney, both attended NHS and loved participating in Gym Night.
When asked for a favorite memory, Mr. Maloney shared, “I don’t know that I would say I have a favorite memory. Just the overall experience.”
Maloney also commented on the change in perspective of Gym Night being a current announcer.
“Taking it on from the advisor role and then looking at it from the outside now, you live vicariously through the captains.” Maloney said. “You see the tears of joy and the tears of sadness.”
The head of the overall Gym Night is Mrs. Amy Geruc. Once a student, captain, advisor, and now organizer, Geruc says that Gym Night is for everyone.
“I always say that I’ve never seen so many smiles in one room,” Geruc said. “I’ve seen every different kind of student in Gym Night from those involved in sports, those involved in music, those that aren’t involved in anything but Gym Night. I think it brings our student body together as a whole from every different type of student.”
