Sion students participated in friendly and fun competition at the annual Sion Olympics on Friday Feb. 27. Each grade represented a country. Freshmen were Jamaica, sophomores were Mexico, juniors were Ireland and the seniors were the United States of America. Students dressed up and decorated their hallways with the colors and flags of their countries.

The juniors took first place in the hallway decorating competition followed by the seniors in second, sophomores in third and the freshmen finished in last. Each grade spent many hours after school Thursday and before school Friday decorating their hallways.

The Student Council representatives for each grade choreographed dances that went along with the theme of their country. In a spin-off of “The Voice,” they performed these dances in front of the entire school and were judged by Solomon (theology teacher Paul Kramschuster), Blake Shelton (theology teacher Alex Hall), Adam Levine (Latin teacher Kirk Bray), and Shakira (Spanish teacher Leah LaFaver).

After the dances, students were selected to play a special game of musical chairs. It started out as an ordinary game of musical chairs, but after the music stopped, the girls were given a special command that they had to do before taking a seat. One of the commands was find a monogrammed headband. After the participants found it, they were able to rush back to a chair and find a seat. The seniors, represented by Sydney Daniels and Maura Healy, were the winners of this competition.

Next, students who have sisters in school came forward and answered questions about each other to see how well they actually knew their sister. Questions about their most embarrassing moments and nicknames when they were little were just a couple of questions they were asked.
For the last event, faculty members and students participated in a Faculty vs. Student dodgeball game. Students and faculty members chucked balls at each other and fought to stay in the game. Students took the victory.

After all events were tallied, the seniors were announced as the Olympics champions. They celebrated by throwing red, white, and blue confetti in the air. The sophomores finished in second, freshmen in third, and juniors finished last.