PHS Gender Wars 2013

By Braden Clark

The oldest rivalry of all time, girls against the boys, and Payson High School had a fair share of it in the 2013 Gender Wars.  As the crowd began to fill the stands and the girls and boys sat down on their respected sides, and the tension started to build between the two sides.  As the competition had started, the boys got an early lead and simply looking dominate from start to finish.  However, the girls wouldn’t go down without a fight; taking the dancing competition and the relay race that ended all the games. 

With the final score 132 girls and 130 for the boys, and the girls started to cheer and chant what seemed to be their third straight victory.  However, the refs huddled and began to talk over the last few competitions and tally the final score.  When head ref Mr. Wright took the microphone stating that the girls had gained the lead but after a balloon bursting incident the girls were subtracted five points and thus lost the lead and the boys won their first gender wars in three years.  Thus the chants started raging from “Make me a sandwich,”  “Clean the bathroom,” and any other stereotypical cheers you can think of, and the final score of the 2013 Gender Wars was 127 Girls and 130 Boys. 

                “I never thought the boys could win, I always thought that it was rigged for the girls to win every year.  So when Mr. Wright had said that the girls lost five points I was shocked and really happy!  I almost wanted to cry,” said senior Caleb Crump.