It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s junior Colin Crosby whizzing down Johnson Ferry Road on his Razor scooter.
This all began when the varsity football team’s junior players were moved from their traditional parking spots.
“We were told that we no longer had Main parking passes and we had to park on Johnson, which is a lot farther from Donellan than Main,” Crosby said.
The team has responded in a unique way: scooters.
To junior Hudson Taylor, the solution was simple. “It took forever [to walk], and I was like might as well just bring a scooter,” he said
However, Taylor’s teammates didn’t recognize the genius of his idea at first.
“Everyone saw it and started laughing, but then they realized it was a good idea and started doing it,” he said.
Both Taylor and Crosby use the “standard Razor scooter,” but the other modes of transport are nothing short of creative.
“People started using all kinds of random things, roller blades, skates — even hoverboards,” Taylor said.
Senior players Matthew Tootle and Porter Messick view the trend as “innovative and hilarious.”
Messick said that the older players enjoy “watching them as they scooter over. It’s funny.” Tootle added, “And it cuts the time in half.”
While they like looking on from afar, the seniors are glad it isn’t them. “I’m just happy that we had better parking,” Messick said.
Fortunately, none of the players have sustained any life-threatening injuries doing this; however, Messick recalled seeing Taylor “fall into a pit once,” and Crosby himself admitted to “falling over once.”
But these few accidents have not been a deterrent for the group, though. When asked how fast they go, Crosby responded, “As fast as possible.”
The current juniors are not planning to continue the trend into their senior year, but Crosby hopes that it might live on.
“I do see it becoming a junior tradition as long as junior football players continue to park on Johnson,” he said.
Taylor, the brains behind the operation, shares Crosby’s sentiment. In the case that this trend becomes a tradition, he said he would enjoy being credited for its beginning.
