What Does It Take to Plan the Homecoming Game? Behind the Scenes with ASB

There’s no doubt that it takes a lot to prepare and plan for big events like Homecoming. ASB always does an amazing job creating memorable events for Redwood students, so what does it take behind the scenes to create memorable moments for many?

The 2026 Homecoming theme is Marvel, with the dress-up days following the theme, with Friday, the day of the Football game, being “Wear Spider-Man attire for Homecoming!”

Homecoming preparations begin weeks before most students even think about Homecoming. Gavin Valdez ’30, a member of the ASB student body, said, “A lot of people don’t understand how much time and effort it takes to get the campus looking all nice and how much time it takes to make these big posters.” He also reported that it takes 2-3 weeks before Hoco week to prepare and plan everything, from making social media promotion to creating the props around campus.

Adrian Lopez Guzman ’27, the ASB president, is the one to keep things organized and taken care of. In his own words, he said: “[I] make sure that the bowl is set up, while everybody’s still having fun at the parade.” He was also voted top 5 and was nominated by orchestra, so he also has to juggle the challenges of managing two floats, one for orchestra and one for ASB

With such important events for Redwoods campus culture, Guzman ’27 said that “It genuinely takes a toll on us, the time, the effort that we put in to make these amazing posters and events that we plan. It’s a lot on us, and so it is sometimes stressful, but we still get it done, and we do it for the students, you know, we do it for you guys. All that work is behind the scenes, ’cause no one sees it.”

Greyson Galley ’30 is the Freshman ASB president. When asked how they set actions in motion that require staff help said, “We communicate with Siqueiros, our principal, but that’s mostly Siqueiros communicating. We communicate with Siqueiros to talk to the front office to see what’s like the next step we can do.”

Mr Siqueiros is the ASB club advisor, which gives him a very big job running all around campus and helping wherever he is needed. “We’re making sure that this event that we’re putting on for the floats is organized, so we’re just making sure students are being proactive.” A great difficulty that Siqueiros has had to deal with was all the absences that students were approaching him with in regard to being gone to help build floats and make sure homecoming goes well.

Although on the more fun side of things, Siqueiros is excited for this years marvel theme, because through it he’s seen lots of students participating and being part of the dress-up days, getting excited for homecoming.

Lastly, Jaylen Gridiron ’30, the freshman Vice President, said that throughout homecoming preparation he’s been having to overcome people with clashing ideas. “We usually think of our own ideas, and we agree if it’s a great idea or a not-so-great idea, and we combine our ideas together.” Another aspect that students not part of ASB that they don’t see are Redos. “We have a lot of mistakes that people don’t really see ’cause when they see our posters and stuff, it looks really great, but we have to really rethink and redo a lot,” said Gridiron ’30

ASB always does an amazing job putting together fun and memorable events, even when there is so much work going on inside the machine that is the ASB student body; their hard work is always greatly appreciated and creates history that students 20 years from now can look back on with pride.

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