Students create GCSU fight song
GCSU athletics now officially boasts a fight song for almost all home sporting events, courtesy of some hard work by dedicated students. “Here Comes the Thunder!” was co-written by senior Marcus Green and junior Paul Rossetti, and put to music by Terrance J. Brown, a GCSU music minor.
Former SGA president Ryan Greene pushed the creation of a fight song, which resulted in a contest for student-created lyrics to be chosen last fall. Green and Rossetti’s entries were quite different, but were combined to create the final product. Green’s lyrics represent more of the historical traditions of GCSU, while Rossetti’s lyrics reflect the current state of the campus.
“We’re very excited to have a fight song,” SGA president Zach Mullins said. “It’s something that a school like ours with a large and growing athletics program should have.”
While the song was finished in time for basketball’s Midnight Madness last October, the goal of getting it recorded was only recently accomplished. With the digital copy, GCSU athletics can play the song without the need for the GCSU Pep Band to attend the sporting event.
“What we’ll likely do is have the recording played for soccer, softball and baseball, everything out at West Campus,” GCSU sports information director Al Weston said, “and then the Pep Band will continue to play it for basketball games in the Centennial Center.”
With the addition of a fight song, GCSU joins hundreds of other schools with established athletic traditions, most of them being much larger Division I schools. The goal is to generate more student interest in GCSU athletics, as well as an increased sense of school spirit.
The song will soon be available for students and Bobcat athletics fans of any age to download online. According to Mullins, the song will soon be uploaded to the athletics, campus life, and SGA Web sites.
Posted by Preston Sellers
on Apr 16 2010. Filed under News.
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