Over four years, the Xavier and Brophy students cheer and show school spirit during home games at the Brophy field. The Red Sea floods into the Phoenix College stadium, watching their Broncos take their home-field. Throughout these four years, the students who attend these games are permanently marked with life long memories. 

Most people would say that Brophy home games are fun social events and an integral part of the high school experience. Others can remember going to the games long before they were high school students, waiting for their time in the student section. For some, a Brophy home game is the only place they want to be on a Friday night.

Brophy senior and student council member, Jaxson Baker, recalls his favorite memory from one of the games, “I think my favorite memory from a football game is when we beat Hamilton last year to continue an undefeated season. It was the first time our football team had beaten Hamilton in a long time and all of us in the student section went nuts.”  

From freshman to senior year, your Friday night game experience evolves. Who you get ready with beforehand, where you sit in the stands, if your parents take you or if you drive yourself all contribute to an unforgettable experience. How much a student attends the games fluctuates based on grade level, as well. Looking up at the student section of the Phoenix College stadium, odds are that you will spot a freshman first and a senior next. But why do sophomores and juniors rarely root for their Broncos on the field?

Junior Jackie Ganem says that “freshman year it was so new, and the best part was meeting new people.” As a freshman, the privilege of being able to sit in the student section with your friends was a new, fun thing to do on Friday nights, and three years later for Jackie, it’s still fun, “because [she] can hang out with [her] friends and people [she] doesn’t usually see.”

Senior year seems to be the most school-spirited of the four years, and this could be because students know that they have a limited number of games left to cheer on their fellow student body. Ganem, looking forward to her senior year, says she is excited for Brophy games to be “more nostalgic and memorable… because they are the last high school football games I will ever get to go to.”

While going to Brophy football games might not be a favorite activity for everyone on a Friday night during Fall, a Brophy home game is “always something fun to go do,” Jackie says.  

Even if Brophy football games change for students socially over four years of high school, all four years still offer enjoyable experiences. No matter which students are sitting on the bleachers, come game day, the colors red, white and black will fill the stands.