Gallery: Senior Sunrise

Seniors gathered before dawn on the first day of school to celebrate their final year of high school together

Kennedy Tetour
Members of the class of 2023 meet on the soccer field behind the Upper Campus at 5:30 a.m. to watch the sunrise and celebrate the start of their final year of high school.

Ella Trimingham, Staf Writer
August 16, 2022

On Aug. 15, 135 seniors joined MCHS Principal Dr. Jeff Prickett to watch the sunrise and kick off the school year for seniors at the Upper Campus soccer fields.

Prickett, who started the Senior Sunrise tradition last year, gave a speech to encourage kindness and compassion in seniors going into their last school year. 

“Senior Sunrise was created as a way to kick off the school year for seniors,” he says. “We brought in the year this morning”

Prickett has planned another Senior Sunset at the end of the school year to celebrate seniors.