Huge crowd gathers around AHS campus for 2016 Homecoming Parade

A huge crowd lined the outer edges of the Aledo High School campus to watch the annual Homecoming Parade that featured 35 floats representing different student activity groups and the 2016 Homecoming Court.

The theme of this year's Homecoming Parade is "Bearcats Making History" and each float carried the theme.

And within each float, students from the respective activity groups tossed wrapped candy miniatures out to the waiting and eager youth that lined Buchanan Drive, Champions Drive, and the passageways next to the Daniel Ninth Grade Center and high school gym.

The parade also featured the four classes of the Homecoming Court parading  in sporty convertibles: Senior court of Emma Haeussler, Kelsey Basler and Ellie Posey; junior court of Callyn Bennett and Grace Renforth; sophomore court of Kennedy Black and Alyssa Sheeran; and the freshman court of Dawsen Deller and Carlee Rogers.

The Homecoming Game will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 at Bearcat Stadium as Aledo will face Saginaw High School.

The junior Homecoming court of Grace Renforth and Callyn Bennett toss candy to kids Monday during the annual Homecoming Parade on the AHS campus.

Displaying the look of the actors in the movie 'A League of Their Own' are the AHS softball players. The softball ladies were dressed up like the ball players and popcorn vendors from the popular movie.

The Aledo Bearcats football team tosses candy to the crowd during the Homecoming Parade.

With the theme 'The Roaring 20s' the Aledo High School cheerleaders wave to the crowd during the Homecoming Parade.