The tradition: Dozens of high school boys take on the role of the Mountain Crest Caprielles for homecoming week each year, known as the Capriettes.

The group dances during halftime at the Powderpuff game and leads the student section in cheers and creates ecstatic energy like the MC Cheerleaders do at football games. Dressed in crop tops and tiny skirts they picked out themselves, the Capriettes performed a series of sassy dance moves full of twirls, twerks, and hip sways for the entire school to see.

Hannah Gunnell, a senior and one of the Capriette coaches described her experience with the boys as “…being in a hurricane, while on fire, but enjoying it. The boys really went above and beyond.”

The coaches spent about 2 weeks prepping and coming up with the choreography for the performance, and the boys learned it in under a week. Gunnell was truly impressed by their hard work and how quickly they learned.

Mark Stevenson, a teacher from Mountain Crest High has a different view on the Capriettes. He says, “I think it’s gone a little over the top, and there’s no self-respect, and you shouldn’t do it.” He says to do it that, “you have to let go of any self-respect, you have to wear what they wear and dance the way they dance.”

So in conclusion the Capriettes help hype up the energy at the powder puff game. Some may enjoy it, others may say that if you do it you don’t have any self respect. Overall they’re just a bunch of guys going out in front of the school making fools of themselves for entertainment for themselves and others.