Change to Kee High School Homecoming for 2023 moves public coronation ceremony to this Sunday ...

Change to Kee High School Homecoming for 2023 moves public coronation ceremony to this Sunday ...

Kee High School will be celebrating its 2023 Homecoming the week of September 24-30, and that celebration will kick off with a change to the traditional crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen this year. Instead of crowning this year’s King and Queen at the traditional Friday afternoon pep rally toward the end of Homecoming Week, that coronation event will now kick off the week full of celebration and is taking place this coming Sunday evening, September 24 at 5:45 p.m. and will also include the illumination of a lighted Kee High School display in the interior entrance area of the high school building, near the high school office location. The public is invited to attend that Sunday ceremony but will then be excused prior to the student-only Dodgeball in the Dark Tournament scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

“We just felt it made more sense to have your King and Queen preside over the entire week of Homecoming, rather than just the final half-day,” explained Allison Fitzwater, one of the faculty sponsors for Kee High School’s Homecoming. “This is what our seniors wanted to do this year, so we’re going to give it a try.”

Even though the coronation event is taking place this Sunday, this year’s Homecoming Court will still be formally presented, including recognition of this year’s Homecoming King and Queen, at 1 p.m. this Friday, September 29, prior to the traditional pep rally event being held in the Kee High School gym. The parade is also still scheduled to take place Friday, beginning at 2:30 p.m., both starting and ending at Kee High School and traveling both Main Street and Center Street.

Members of the Kee High School Homecoming Court for the 2023 celebration of the event include the King and Queen candidates from this year’s Senior class pictured in the photo above, as well as the underclassman attendants pictured below. Pictured above are, left to right: Front row - Senior Class 2023 Homecoming Queen candidates Kaylee Hawes, Mallory Mohn and Lilly Peterson; Back row - Senior Class 2023 Homecoming King candidates Kaleb Drape, Andrew Kolsrud and Jackson Schulte. Pictured in the photo at right, back to front and left to right, are: Freshman Attendants Trey Cota and Rylee Mudderman, Sophomore Attendants Noah Connelly and Addison Winters, and Junior Attendants Parker Leppert and Addyson Rankin. Photos by Danielle Potter.