Students celebrate a Royal event
Students celebrate when Royals take World Series title for first time in three decades
Juniors Renae McNemee, Noah Kucza and Skylar Drum attended the Royals parade in downtown Kansas City on Tuesday, Nov. 3. “The never-ending sea of blue was inspiring and awesome to see people of all shapes and sizes come together because of a team,” Kucza said. Photo courtesy of Noah Kuzca
November 22, 2015
Students joined in to celebrate the Kansas City Royals’ first World Series victory in 30 years.
Several students went to postseason games to experience the team’s success in person.
“It gets pretty intense,” sophomore Taylor Covert said. “Everyone’s screaming and cheering and whipping their towels around. It’s fun.”
Growing up as Royals fans, winning the World Series had been a lifelong dream for many students.
“As a kid, I grew up and always asked him [my dad] why we were Royals fans because they were bad,” junior Jackson Mallory said. “He would just say ‘some day they’ll be good, and we’ll be happy about it.’ So we just kept fighting through it.”
Being a longtime fan made the World Series win that much sweeter for Mallory.
“I was in Kentucky for a basketball game [when I found out],” he said “I was sitting in my hotel and just went insane. There was a bunch of Royals fans down at a bar, so we went and celebrated with them.”
Baseball is a sport of many strange superstitions, and students have their own ways of helping out the team. Fans prefer anything from their favorite shirt to a stadium food to give the Royals luck.
“When I go to the games, every time I get cotton candy they win,” senior Elaine Harris said.
Some also had the opportunity to go to the celebration parade on Nov. 3.
“It was insane.” Covert said. “There were so many people you could hardly even walk around.”
Although an estimated 800,000 people attended the parade and it was on a school day, students who went found it well worth the time.
“Even though it was hard to see all the players, it was so fun being able to be there and experience it,” senior Parker Kirkpatrick said.
Not only has the win brought joy to Royals fans it has also made the tight-knit community closer and more involved.
“Everyone’s a family there and no one’s rooting against anything bad for the other team,” Mallory said. “It’s just a big family.”
Having waited so long for the win, fans said they would remember it for the rest of their lives.
“Before we were a sports town,” Mallory said. “But now we’re a true sports town with a winning team and everyone knows that.”
