On Monday, September 30, the class of 2014 won their second powderpuff game in a row, making them the only undefeated class in Dominion’s ten year history. However, the senior girls had to win without the support of their senior boys cheering them onto victory.

According to SCA adviser, Andrea Relator, the senior boys had inconsistent practice schedules, “inappropriate” music, and did not have a routine one week before the competition.

“Pretty much all my rules are because I’ve messed up before,” Relator said. By not abiding by Relator’s guidelines in the allotted time cost the senior boys their chance to perform for the last time on Dominion’s football field on a beautiful, sunny afternoon.

“They had these expectations and if they had met these expectations they would have performed,” Dr. Brewer said.

On the Friday before the competition, Brewer met with Relator and made the decision in not allowing the boys to perform. “That was definitely my decision. At the end of the day, it was my decision to make,” Brewer said.

A family emergency prohibited Brewer from being in school the day of the big game, and made the final decision on Friday. “Ultimately I’m responsible,” Brewer said, “If it’s not approved, I can’t be responsible for letting it be shown in front of 1500 people.”

Pleading for another chance with Relator and Brewer was Mrs. Shelli Glynn, the faculty adviser in charge of the senior boys’ powderpuff. “I had confidence that because they were seniors, they would be able to pull it together,” Glynn said.

Glynn tried to the best of her ability to give the boys a second shot, driving over to senior Colin Jeffery’s house the night before the game, hopeful the boys could pull something together. After working with the boys Sunday night at Jeffrey’s house, Glynn felt pretty confident that the boys would be given a second chance. “I left knowing they had a routine that was doable,” Glynn said.

However, Glynn’s efforts were to no avail, and the senior boys were not permitted to cheer at their last powderpuff football game, as it was too late to make any unapproved music changes. According to Relator, the boys made one last attempt to change their music Monday morning before the game, and the music they proposed was “inappropriate.” “I was very, very sad,” Glynn said, “This is all for fun, it was all for the spirit of the school.”

Glynn, who has been the sponsor of many senior powderpuff performances was taken aback when she heard the boys were not going to be allowed to perform. “I never imagined a senior class not pulling this off. No matter how disorganized or squirrely a group has been they’ve always gotten it together in the 11^th hour and made it a success. So I was shocked,” Glynn said.

Despite the cancellation of the senior boys’ powderpuff performance, the juniors were permitted to perform in what many felt was a controversial dance accompanied with questionable music.

“The performance they [juniors] put on was not necessarily their performance. That was not approved,” Relator said. In addition to the controversial dance moves, the junior boys danced to the song, “Molly,” questionable as the song is about the drug “Molly” in the headlines recently after contributing to the death of a UVA student just last month.

Relator, who approved the junior’s music, was unaware of the drug reference in the song, thinking the lyric of “Molly” was a reference to a current member of the cheerleading squad. “When I listened to the music I thought it was clean,” Relator said.

Despite the controversy over the senior boys not being able to cheer in their last powderpuff game, Relator thought the seniors handled the situation well.