s the lights shine across the stadium, the homecoming court walks through the football field with the band playing in the background. Within moments, the senior nominees will find out who will be the 2016 Homecoming Queen. During halftime of the homecoming game, senior Adrianna (AJ) Navarro, along with four of her peers, was elected to the Homecoming Court of 2016. AJ was the one out of five girls that was nominated to be a candidate for homecoming queen. “I was really happy when they called my name,” AJ said. “At first, I wasn’t expecting to win and once they called my name, I was surprised.” Her uncle, Mr. Raul Tavarez, had the honor of walking his niece out onto the football field that night. He was one of the adults who escorted the nominees across the football field during halftime. “I was proud of AJ for getting nominated,” Mr. Tavarez said. “I was a little nervous only because her sister (Corrina Navarro) won
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Homecoming Hearts As Adrianna (AJ) Navarro12 is announced homecoming queen, Mr. Jay Janczak and Mrs. Annette Hill present her with the crown and flowers. AJ was one of the five senior girls who were selected to be homecoming queen. “I didn’t expect them to announce my name that night,” AJ said. “When they announced my name, I was like ‘Oh my gosh, that’s me.’”
the year before her and the pressure was on AJ to win it this year.” Last year, Corrina was crowned Homecoming Queen. This year, AJ was able to follow in her sister’s footsteps and be crowned
as the homecoming queen also. “Being crowned as homecoming queen was really special since my sister was also crowned last year,” AJ said. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)