1. They have the perfect recipe for team spirit—just add water.

“When in doubt, whoo it out,” captain Katiana Taubenberger said. The swim team follows this advice faithfully. “[When we cheer] we’re in the water,” Taubenberger said. The team has a plethora of cheers, one of them, raucously recited for this story by sophomores Kathryn Schmechel, Hana Martinez, and senior Katiana Taubenberger, “Reese’s” goes like this:

Reese’s peanut butter cups/You mess with us we show you up/ Our hopes are high/Our doubts are low/And this is how our cheer goes/R-O-W-D-I-E that’s the way you spell rowdy/Rowdy/Let’s get rowdy. (WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!)

2. It’s not just cheering, but calling.

Most meets are both swim and dive meets. After the swim events, the girls swim team watches the divers. Each diver is judged by three judges and gets three scores, “if two judges on the outside give the same score but the one in the middle is different, we shout ‘Oreo!’ If all the three scores are the same, we shout ‘BINGO!’” Martinez said.

3. They get along swimmingly with their bus driver.

Remember those cheers? Well, they’ve got one for the bus driver, too. “We always sing Three Cheers to the bus driver and thank him or her for the ride,” sophomore Hana Martinez said.

4.  There’s more to the team than the pool.

Swimming is a vigorous sport, and like most people after exercise, the swim team needs sustenance. “We get breakfast together after every morning practice,” junior Cait Gibbons said.

5. Here’s one more swim team cheer just ’cause:

Down by the river (down by the river), took a little walk (took a little walk), met up with (insert team name here) (met up with (insert team name here)), had a little talk (had a little talk), pushed them in the water (pushed them in the water), held ‘em by the line (held ‘em by the line), and said, “we could beat (insert team name here) any old time!”