Each year, the National Honor Society (NHS) here at Rockbridge hosts their annual Lip Sync Battle. The Lip Sync Battle allows students to get together with their friends, put together a mashup of music, and perform it in front of a panel of judges.
This year, the lip sync battle was hosted on Friday Feb. 27 in the auditorium here at the high school. NHS advisor and English teacher Stephanie Brooks was in charge of orchestrating the event for the fifth year.
Brooks rejoices in knowing that the funds raised go to a good cause.
“The most rewarding part overall is donating all of the proceeds to Cystic Fibrosis and knowing that our hard work will go to a good cause,” Brooks said.
A lot goes into putting on the lip sync, including raising funds, recruiting acts, and finding judges. NHS members contact local businesses for donations and advertisements are placed around the school building. Brooks shares the most important step in planning the event.
“The most important step is recruiting acts to be in Lip Sync. This is a struggle every year. Prior to Covid, we would have 20-25 acts in the performance, now we are lucky if we have 8-10 acts,” Brooks said.
The Lip Syncers, who consisted of Presley Brzostek, EJ Clement, Ava Crocker, Lola Mulitalo, Geneva Snyder, and June Wilson received first place. The Dabbers, who were made up of Ella Cate Brown, Presley Brzotek, Olivia Hickman, Summer Hull, Elsa Kerin-Rice, Lola Mulitalo, Libby Pearson Annalee Penny, and Claire Sigler received second place. The Boys, who consisted of Noah Alexander, Trent Cash, Ethan Erskine, Fisher Howald, and Thomas Jones received third place. Mike Patterson won people’s choice.
Junior Geneva Snyder was able to win this year’s lip sync with a lot of preparation and practice,
“On the Sunday before Lip Sync, we met at Presley’s Brostek’s house, made our music, and began choreographing. During the 4th period on Tuesday and Wednesday, we choreographed our dance. We practiced again on Wednesday night, and then we felt pretty good about our dance,” Snyder said.
Snyder and her friends had a lot of fun getting ready for the lip sync and spending time with each other. It is a great way to get together with your class or friends and create a dance routine, all for a good cause.
“We had so much fun practicing, choreographing, and performing together. After we won we took our money and bought dinner at Don Tequilas. We splurged and bought shirley temples, virgin margaritas, and queso dip. It was overall such a fun night with friends,” Snyder said.
NHS officers coordinate and play a significant role in putting on the lip sync. Secretary Willow Rogers was in the officer act as well as an act with her friends.
“It is so rewarding to get to see everyone having fun together. I was able to see all of these groups of friends come together and just have fun. So many people worry about being embarrassed when it comes to Lip Sync but seeing everyone get out there and just enjoy it was amazing,” Rogers said.
Each year the NHS lip sync brings a fun time to the RCHS student body and helps raise roughly 1,700 dollars for a very good cause. More acts are always needed, so if you and your friends are interested, sign up for next year’s lip sync battle when the time comes back around.
