“We were all gathered at the school for a fieldtrip to UNC-G, so we were here at 6:30 a.m. and when they called Mr. Hanson we were all gathered around him, when they said that we won we all started screaming,” sophomore Silas Waller said. “We passed the phone around and all got to say our names on the radio, it was all live and it was really cool.” Northwood’s a capella group Pitch Please, was named the winner of the Division II Mix 101.5 Christmas Choir Competition on Friday, Dec. 12th. During the week, Mix 101.5 picked nine finalists from school choirs across multiple counties, and across multiple grades. After that the entries were narrowed down to three winners, with the overall winner …show more content…
“I was truly humbled because I kind of assumed we would have a good amount of support from the arts department, and people at our school, but everyone really seemed to jump on board with this.” Over the course of the week, students were encouraged to vote for Pitch Please during the school day. Northwood principal Justin Bartholomew made a phone call home to parents and students encouraging them to vote as well. “We had huge support from Dr. B and the administration with voting. I was getting constant emails and phone calls from middle school teachers and elementary school teachers who were letting their students vote,” Hanson said. “Parents got involved and had their work buildings vote for us; it really was a whole Chatham County family initiative that helped push this group to win.” Many students were worried that other high schools would surpass them in the number of votes.
“I was really happy that the people who had been voting for Cary didn’t get carried away, because I had been stressing out about that so much the day before,” Waller said. “A lot Northwood students were voting for Cary, not sure why, so when we won I was like