D’Iberville honors spring athletes with parade

There’s no way for high schools to recreate the lost senior night for so many spring athletes from the class of 2020, but D’Iberville High School is one of many across the Gulf Coast trying to do next best thing.

This evening, more than 50 cars lined up around the main building with a lot of those soon-to-be graduates riding shotgun or rooftop, whatever works.

No Mardi Gras beads or Moon Pies, but a parade nonetheless as coaches and teachers cheered on their former athletes one last time from more than six feet away.

The coronavirus might have stripped these seniors of valuable memories they’ll never get back, but on Friday, those same seniors made a memory they never would have otherwise.  D’Iberville Head Track and Field Coach Carlton Cotten said, “What we did was we allowed the chance for the seniors to get a highlight day, and for us to show them how happy we are for them. A small token of our appreciation. This is the least we could do is to let them know that we appreciate what they’ve done for the community up until this point, and we’re excited for them. We’re excited for them, and looking forward for good things to happen to them in the future.”

D’Iberville Track and Field/Cross Country Senior Benjamin Hutchinson said, “It’s like the teachers I love you, like memories you make at school. This is the stuff you never forget for the rest of your life. It’s just amazing. It’s speechless. That’s what we do. We’re Warriors. We’re Warriors. It’s DHS, man. I mean that’s how we roll.”

Among the sports represented at Friday’s parade were baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and field, powerlifting, and archery.