The sun is beginning to set, bright lights rain down onto the crowd beating in red white and black. Cleats staggering on the field as warm ups end. Keys cling at kick off to start the East High football game. The fun of the sporting events does not start here. It starts with the Tribe.

“The Tribe is the student section at school events. It’s not just the six leaders, it is the entire school body,” tribe leader Camryn Carpenter said.

Every year the previous years tribe chooses a select group of seniors to be the next years Tribe leaders. The group this year was six seniors, Tony Bennet, Oscar Sanchez, Chase Ballard, Lou Custard, Camryn Carpenter, and Madi Garcia. These leaders were brought to the provious tribe leaders attention by attending many sporting events through-out their high school career. This years voting process might change a little. The leaders are considering an application to more students involved with running the Tribe rather than people they know.

“As a tribe leader I run the Twitter(@_TheTribe), deal with concerns of students and staff about the student section, control the student section, plan pep assemblies and organize the tailgates,” Bennet said.

Tailgates are held every Friday night before the game starts. The leaders provide grilled hotdogs or pizza, drinks, face painting, water pong and to relax a little bit, there is even a couch. They also come up with themes for games including black out, american out, hawaiian out and spirit out. They also make sure student behave and cheers on the players during the whole game. Everyone is encouraged to support any event they would like.

“Most people attend football. We are trying to get more people to attend sporting events by handing out tickets to go into the game or different kinds of prizes. The tribe leaders this year are trying to change the amount of people at sporting events,” Sanchez said.

In previous years, East has had trouble getting people to attend sporting events. The Tribe leaders are doing everything in their power to get more attendees. They are handing out free tickets to get into games, having meeting with the administration and Mr. Fedders, the athletic director and anyone to come support.