Samo’s homecoming court winners revealed

At the Homecoming Game on Oct. 10, the final winners of the Homecoming court were revealed. Homecoming royalty has been a tradition at Samo for many years and it is custom for the final contestants to be presented at the rally the day before the dance. These contestants had to nominate themselves to become Homecoming Royalty and the students at Samo voted to narrow down the runnings to get the five final pairings. The remaining couples were Edie Kaufmann (’26) and Kyle Matsui (’26), Sadie Gryczman (’26) and Archie Windsor (’26), Chloe Sanders (’26) and Manny Lopez (’26), Gelila Mihret (’26) and Payton Seals-Mcclellan (’26) and finally Leona Jones (’26) and Luke Shimahara (’26). The couple named homecoming royalty was Sanders and Shimahara. 

Winning the title of Homecoming King and Queen is a significant achievement that requires a great deal of hard work and self-confidence from the candidates.

“One thing I did to promote myself was to use word of mouth. I was telling my teammates to tell their friends to vote for me. I was also in a couple of my teachers' classes and my friends' classes, writing my name on the board and encouraging people to vote for me,” Sanders said. 

“Personally, I used social media as a big tool to help campaign and promote myself. I felt really surprised when they announced me as the winner, but I was very happy with the results,” Shimahara said. 

After all the Homecoming Royalty candidates put in lots of time and dedication to winning the title, the victors taking home the crown signified the end of a successful homecoming season.