On January 16, Lambert High School will be hosting its Lambert Connected Event with the Girls and Boys Basketball teams. The event will feature choir performances along with rivalry games between South Forsyth High School’s and Lambert’s basketball teams. This event is a unique opportunity for elementary, middle and high schoolers to come together and support their athletic and performing arts communities.
The Lambert Connected Event is a considerably large community event for not just the school, but the feeder schools as well. This means that a lot of effort goes into planning and organizing. According to Coach Clay Wage, the boys basketball coach, what started as a wish from Principal Thrower to create more involvement with the middle and elementary schools became a team effort to produce a community activity.
“Ms. Thrower wanted to involve our middle schools and get them at these games,” he said. “We took the reins on it and started to take it from an idea to an organized activity that is more scripted, more organized.”
Such a large event requires coordination and communication with all the elementary and middle schools as well as those at Lambert who are involved in the event.
The main goal of the administrators and coaches is to bring people of all ages and schools together and promote connection between these different groups. Coach Wage, who is helping out with this event, explains how Lambert Connected is meant to foster social connections between different age and extracurricular groups in order to create a friendlier environment at Lambert for its existing and upcoming students.
“We want to encourage people to come out and not just cheer for us, but as a chance to get students off their cell phones, to get them to interact and have some fun.” Coach Wages explained.
Sport games are a great way to meet new people at your school, and are a great opportunity for middle and elementary schoolers to see what life at Lambert may look like. By advertising these large social events, administrators hope to promote connectivity amongst students while also supporting Lambert’s extracurriculars.
Lambert is known for its focus on high academic standards and achievements. However, the sense of community can be lost amidst the competition that occurs as a result. This is why the Lambert Connected event’s aim is to promote more connection amongst students of different grade levels and bring community attention to Lambert’s basketball teams.
“A lot of times at Lambert, academics become a focus,” Ryan Wason, Lambert’s Chorus Director, explained. “But, I know that Lambert has so many other great things to offer. It’s great for our community to see all of these different people coming together to support all of these different areas.”
By fostering interconnectedness within the Lambert community, the event brings attention and promotes the wide variety of activities and organizations Lambert has.
There will be two sets of basketball games, a girls game at 6:00 with an elementary school chorus performance of the national anthem, and a boys game at 7:30 with a middle school choir performance of the anthem. Brookwood, Sharon, Shalbridge, and Sharon’s Creek elementary schools will be attending, as well as Riverwatch and South Forsyth middle schools. All in all, Lambert Connected is sure to be one of the largest and most diverse school gatherings of this year.
