On the night of February 15, while many HHS students will be dressing up, taking pictures, and dancing with their friends, others will be performing on stage, competing against other teams and visiting colleges.

The Sadie Hawkins dance is scheduled for 8:00 pm. Over the course of the day, wrestling and gymnastics have meets, boy’s hockey has a game, there is a possibility of the dance team competing, and the theater kids will be showing one of their One Acts performances.

In addition, a few seniors had chosen that four-day weekend to tour colleges around the country before the dance was scheduled.

“We tried to work around it for some of the other conflicts, however those issues were not brought up to us with sufficient time for us to actually adjust anything, which, unfortunately, made everyone’s life difficult,” said Mia Berman, Student Government President.

“After the date of the dance was announced, I was approached by a few dance team members asking for us to switch the date, but by that time it was too late. I’m sure there are other groups, but the dance team was the biggest one that came to us,” Berman said.

In addition to athletic conflicts, the HHS theater club is scheduled for a performance on the 15th. The show was originally scheduled for the evening, but the school board and head of the theater club are working to get the time changed to earlier in the day.

“I want to put on a good show and that’s really all my focus is on right now. If I wanted to go to the dance, I’m sure I would be a little mad that they didn’t figure out the schedules enough to incorporate us into it, and not just push us off into a corner. That kind of happens a lot when you’re in theater,” said one of the four One Acts Directors, Sally Bremer, senior.

Because most of the people who attend the shows are HHS students, the theater club fears a drop in the number of supporters they will have this time around.

“The dance will definitely take away from the amount of people who will come. We want our friends to see what we are doing, why we can’t hang out after school, and why we can’t hang out on the weekends; because we have this show. We want to show them our hard work as much as we possibly can, and if they can’t come see us that night because of the dance, I think that’s a little unfair to us,” Bremer said.

With college right around the corner, seniors like Margaret Stelzner had pre-selected the weekend of the dance to explore potential schools for next year.

“I applied to 14 schools so I needed to take this weekend to go look at some that are farther away,” said Stelzner. “I think the dance is a good idea so it’s kind of a bummer to be missing it, but traveling is a sweet alternative.”

Over the summer, senior Alex Lehman was the first to bring the idea of a Sadie Hawkin’s dance to the attention of the administration and played a major part in making the dance a possibility in the first place.

Lehman was also originally scheduled to visit colleges in Arizona, causing him to miss the dance, but last minute decided to switch his flights so he could see what will become of his ideas.

“There was a poll posted online that allowed kids to vote on when they want the dance. We were kind of restricted based off of when Winter week actually is, when administration had scheduled the pepfest, and when they had reserved time in the school for us to have the dance,” Berman said.

Even though some will competing, performing, or traveling, HHS will see its first ever Sadie Hawkins dance in full swing.