On September 16th, Arrowhead High School hosted another football game. In this event, the Arrowhead Warhawks played the Mukwonago Indians. It was 70 degrees out with cloudless skies. Arrowhead pulled off their first home game win of the season with a score of 10-7.   

Oldine Paulsen, an Arrowhead senior, says, “The game was powerful. Everyone was decked out in gold and cheering.”

For every football game, the Arrowhead gators choose a theme and students dress accordingly. At the game against Mukwonago, the theme was a gold out.This theme created a golden blob in the stands. NHS and G9 partnered up to create G9 night.

Dani Quast, an Arrowhead senior, says, “The G9 project is gold in September. It’s a fundraiser to help raise money and awareness for children with cancer. It was created by Annie Bartosz after losing her twin brother, Jack, to cancer. She did I Back Jack too but I think G9 is the new I back Jack.”

The official G9 website, Gold in September, has a quote from Bartosz, who started G9 at age eleven. She says, “When a child is diagnosed with cancer it affects the family and the community. It’s devastating. My goal is to get everyone thinking about and wearing gold in September so we can bring an end to childhood cancer.”  

At half time, there was an opportunity to make a donation. All that was asked for was a one dollar donation but many people put in a twenty dollar donation. One man even made a $100 donation to G9.  Unfortunately the Mukwonago stands weren’t too kind the the G9 volunteers as they reportedly booed the volunteers as they asked for donations.  

Flyers were handed out as people exited the game. These flyers contained information on how to organize G9 penny wars in the community. The flyer had a link where people could sign up to organize a penny war (www.goldinseptmeber.com/g9-penny-wars) as well as contact information for anyone who would want additional information. The flyer says, “Please contact [email protected] for additional information and to register your group or school.”

Paige Schaber, an Arrowhead junior says, “No one owns gold.” The solution? Students could buy a shirt for ten dollars either at lunch or at the game.

Quast, who sold shirts at the game says, “The money that was used to buy the shirts was donated to the G9 project to help fund cancer research. We ran out of the gold on gold shirts quickly and only had white and gold shirts.”  

Carmen Scaringi, an Arrowhead junior, says, “I went to school with Annie Bartosz, of course she was younger than me, but my siblings are her age and they would always talk about how great the foundation was and how cool it was that this little girl was trying to raise money to save her brother’s life.”