Fight Song sounds HC start

Students, alumni and community members packed the Murphy Center for the annual Fight Song Competition hosted by the Student Government Association last Thursday night.

This year, five groups competed for the Fight Song trophy. The winning group consisted of the following organizations: Chi Omega, Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Alpha and Alpha Phi Alpha.

“The most important thing we did was learn how to work together,” said Elysa Fortner, a junior journalism major and member of Chi Omega sorority.

Fortner, who was one of the members in charge of her group, said they got grouped with people they didn’t know, but that they became close friends while working together.

“I’m looking forward to participating in it next year,” Fortner said. “I’m also looking forward to the rest of the Homecoming events and the rest of this year as well.”

Fight Song, MTSU’s longest standing Homecoming tradition, is a song-and-dance competition where various student organizations place the lyrics of the MTSU fight song to the tune of other popular songs.

Brandon Batts, junior education and behavioral science major and member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said it was interesting for everyone to memorize and perform all the choreographed moves, but the result was worth all of the hard work.

“This is my first year competing in it and this is my first year being Greek,” Batts said. “I’m glad we competed our first year and actually won and I will look forward to doing it next year.”

Third-place winners Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha had a “Rock Band” theme that consisted of props and choreographed moves to popular songs from the game.

“We only had two weeks to prepare for it, which was standard for all participants,” said Amanda Baskin, a freshman psychology major and member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. “We would practice from around nine p.m. until around two in the morning. It was a definite surprise to win third place.”

Mallory Phillips, Homecoming director and senior public relations major, said that out of the four years she has been at MTSU, this year was her favorite.

“The crowd was awesome, the theme was perfect and everyone was rocking out,” Phillips said. “Everyone did a fantastic job.”

Impact, the MTSU performing arts company, gave a special performance while the judges tallied the scores.

“This was the first year that Impact performed,” Phillips said. “They didn’t compete, but they did their own awesome rendition of Fight Song.”

Judges of Fight Song included Gene Fitch, associate vice president for Student Affairs and dean of Student Life; Angela Armstrong, director and faculty sponsor of MTSU Performing Arts Company; Tommy Macon, associate professor of costume design; Byron Lightsy, coordinator of Greek Affairs and MTSU first lady, Elizabeth McPhee.

“The judges were looking for originality, creativity and school spirit,” Phillips said. “They also looked at vocal skills, choreography and that the groups stayed within the time limits. The scores were incredibly close.”

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