Homecoming Champions

Hi everyone! Today's post was written by Kourtney Dworsky, one of Tri Delta's representatives for the university's annual Homecoming week.  Homecoming is one of Tri Delta's favorite times of the year because it's a time when the whole university comes together.  We are so thankful for the countless hours Kourtney and her partner, Zoe Raine, spent preparing for the week's events and are proud to announce that we were the winners of this year's competition!

"This past October, Tri Delta partnered with Beta Theta Pi Fraternity to compete in a number of different competitions for the university’s annual Homecoming week. This year’s theme was 'United States of Carolina.' Tri Delta and Beta placed FIRST overall this year in Homecoming and were presented with a trophy on the field at halftime of the Mississippi State football game. 

Tri Delta has been making great strides over the past year in its involvement in on-campus events. Tri Delta and Beta Theta Pi placed third overall at last year’s Homecoming and then placed first in Sigma Chi’s Derby Days philanthropy competition last spring.

This year, Tri Delta and Beta placed second in Spurs and Struts, a dance competition in which members remixed four minutes worth of music relative to the theme and created and performed a dance in front a panel of judges and a large portion of the student body.




Tri Deltas also voted to support Michael Alexander, who represented our partner fraternity as a candidate for Homecoming King.  For the talent portion of the competition, he played an amazing mashup of Old Crow Medicine Show's "Wagon Wheel" and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" on the guitar.  Vocals were done by fellow Beta Cameron Turner and Tri Delta's own Music Chair, Hannah Stroud!




Tri Delta and Beta also placed second in both the banner and "canned creations" competitions. Tri Delta girls spent hours painting a banner to look like a dollar bill with Cocky, the University’s mascot, and other University and South Carolina state emblems on it.  For canned creations, the team built a themed structure out of cans and then donated all of the cans to Harvest Hope, a local food bank. 

Our chapter donated over 700 cans to a local food bank as a result of this competition!

What really put our team ahead, though, was winning some of the most coveted awards given out by the Homecoming Committee.  Beta Theta Pi won the Gamecock Greatness Award, given to the fraternity that best represents the values of the Carolina Creed.  Tri Delta won the National Recognition Award because of our dedication and success in supporting our philanthropy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

I was so honored to serve as this year’s Tri Delta Homecoming Co-Chair and could not be more proud that all of our hard work paid off and resulted in an overall first place victory for Tri Delta and Beta Theta Pi in Homecoming 2013!"

Kourtney Dworsky holds the first-place trophy with Beta Theta Pi representative Chris Kline.