A last minute change of venue didn’t prevent the Greene County School District community from supporting its students at Monday evening’s Fall Sports Pep Rally.

The event was last held in 2019 and was scheduled to be outdoors, but rain forced the action indoors at the Greene County Community Center where a full house audience watched as each fall sports program, as well as band and color guard were introduced. Even baseball and softball were recognized following their respective seasons. Superintendent Brett Abbotts and Activities Director Dave Wright made remarks and Raccoon Valley Radio’s own Doug Rieder served as emcee. The cheerleaders led several cheers to engage the crowd.

Wright shared what he thought about the event.

“It was a great turnout tonight. It was really exciting for me. That’s something that we haven’t done where the school that I was at. It’s just the community wasn’t quite into the things that they are here, so I was really excited to come here. Obviously, we would’ve liked to have it outside but I’m not complaining because we need the rain.” 

The event was put on by the Greene County Booster Club and President Lorelle Hinote said they raised $19,200 last school year for the activities. A free-will donation meal was served prior to the pep rally and Hinote thanked Jefferson Hy-Vee for donating chips and hamburger buns, Jefferson Fareway for the bottled water, Murphy Farm Meats for the meat and ShineOn Designs for free t-shirts that were given away.

Check out Raccoon Valley Radio’s Facebook page for pictures from the pep rally.