Swim with the fish at tomorrow night’s dance.

Although the student section looks like a sea of blue year round, this Homecoming season takes LHS on a journey even further into the deep blue sea. The much anticipated dance is tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. in Cokely fieldhouse. Boasting a spirit week full of unique themed days, a new DJ and ocean themed decorations, this year’s Homecoming dance may blow students’ expectations out of the water.

The “Beneath the Blue” theme isn’t an easy one to be portrayed. StuCo had many hoops to swim through while trying to create this year’s under the sea theme.

“We are hopefully going to portray it through the aspects of underwater sea life,” sophomore Jacob Marquis said. “Sadly we can’t really use anything from Disney because of copyright laws but we’re going to try the best we can to make it sort of magical and a really good time for everybody.”

The main event is the dance itself with somewhere between 600-800 students attending. A lot of planning goes into the week leading up to Homecoming. Schoolwide excitement builds during the week before the dance.

“I think the thing that makes dances better every year is just the support from the student body and all of the excitement leading up to it,” senior Kamryn Downing said. “If people are pumped about all of the different opportunities we are offering they will be more excited to go to the dance.”

New music is another component adding to the originality of this year’s dance.

“We’re getting a new DJ,” StuCo member junior Josie Wilkerson said. “We’re getting a professional DJ and he’s bringing lights to put up.”

This year’s decorations include twinkling lights and bubbles that are intended to create a more elegant ocean setting.

“We’re going to have a lot more detailed decorations,” Wilkerson said. “I think we will hopefully make the gym feel more like home and almost smaller in a big space since it usually seems really big.”

No matter how many times you’ve been to a Homecoming dance, “Beneath the Blue” will not disappoint.

“I believe students should look forward to this being one of the best Homecomings they will have at LHS, especially if you’re a senior,” Marquis said. “For those who this is their first Homecoming, this will be one to remember.”

It wasn’t all sparkling seashells and pearls coming up with the theme itself, however. Hard work and dedication was required from all StuCo members.

“We come up with a lot of different themes and then we vote and choose one,” freshman Ana Dolsky said. “Then we have to brainstorm what we want to do and then split into committees so we can all come up with our own ideas. We came up with the parade, the color powder party and the spirit days.”

The final decision was an under the sea theme called “Beneath the Blue.” With a fun and unique theme comes fun and unique spirit days. While spirit days can sometimes be predictable and repeated from years past, StuCo created some new ocean inspired spirit themes. These included Beach day on Monday, Tropical Toons Tuesday, Squadruplet on Wednesday, Yacht Club on Thursday, all wrapped up with a classic Blue Out on Friday.

“We haven’t done twin day in a while and I think the ‘squadruplet’ idea is really fun,” StuCo adviser Erin Ramsey said. “I think we have some new and fresh ideas this time.”