Eastern Michigan University students filled the Amphitheater for the annual pep rally Friday night.
Shannon Murphy met with students at the TRUEMU Block Party and stayed to emcee the rally. She introduced all of the speakers, including Kim Schatzel, EMU’s Interim President and Provost, Chris Creighton, head football coach and Rob Murphy, head men’s basketball coach.
Freshman Bethany Conway, a sociology major, said the rally was lit.
“I’m glad [events like this] exist because it gives us something to do and it gets us involved,” Conway said.
Along with speeches from the football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and gymnastics teams, the marching band and cheer and dance teams performed for the crowd.
Desia Senter, freshman biology major said she was excited to be at the Pep Rally.
“I wish the band would have played more, but I was excited,” Senter said.
The top three 2015 Homecoming Court Couples were announced at the end: Ryan Biddlecombe and Tiffany Foy, Daivon Taylor and Krystle-Ann Moore, and Amelia Stewart and Takayla King.
Stewart and King won first place. Both said they wanted to run in order to represent diversity at EMU.
“It means the world doing this with [King] and being able to be a face of Eastern that shows that we support everybody and all their differences and all their different cultures,” Stewart said.
Taylor, who won second place at the homecoming game, said it meant a lot to him that he was a finalist.
““I wanted to do it because I wanted to show that anyone could do it,” Taylor said. “Anything that you put your mind to, you can do it.”
Jo’El Williams, the graduate assistant for transfer and family programs, said he thought the Pep Rally was great.
“I’m glad the candidates all had really great energy and they had fun,” Williams said.
