This Friday, members of LHS Student Council traveled to the DCSB Legacy Campus and participated in the annual Super Summit. Super Summit is an event hosted by the Douglas County School District, where 10+ schools, including Ponderosa, Heritage, Chaparral, Highlands Ranch, Legend, Mountain Vista, Regis Jesuit, Rock Canyon, and Thunder Ridge, all attend various sessions about leadership in schools.
This year, multiple sessions were highlighted, a few being “Leadership 101”, “Why Do Police Have Therapy Dogs?”, and a presentation about scholarships by Boettcher Scholarship Director Vanessa Roman. Other notable sessions included a magic show and yoga!
Throughout the event, each school was awarded points based on school spirit, levels of engagement, and the most creative cheers. After the sessions, each school made a TikTok “hype video” to showcase their creativity, and at the end of the event, these TikToks were shown and a winner was announced.
LHS was awarded their first points due to their session engagement, and everyone was very excited to see that we were in the spotlight. Our next points came from our victory streak in almost every Minute To Win It game, including strong performances by sophomore Kate Nazarenus in a toilet paper game and senior Leo Ellcessor in a balloon game. Junior Nikhil Bagal dominated in Knockout, and by the end of Super Summit, LHS had been awarded 18 points. This is the highest score we have ever gotten at Super Summit, and by then we were tied for first place with Ponderosa.
Excitement was at an all time high to determine the tiebreaker. Student Body President senior Fin Collins went head-to-head against a student at Ponderosa in an intense dance battle. The winner was determined by the crowd, with loud cheers in favor of both LHS and Ponderosa. In the end, Ponderosa was deemed the winner of the 2026 Continental League, but it was an extremely close decision.
Everyone in the LHS Student Council was raving about our success and how historic this moment was. This event proved that LHS has the ability to represent against schools that are twice the size of our student body.
The results of this Super Summit were greater than we had ever anticipated, as last year LHS had only received 2 points. This was very uplifting for everyone involved, and the Student Council has high hopes for next year’s event.
