Vandegrift has been swept with the age old phenomenon: the hacky sack. The trend started in the early 2000s and has recently made a comeback and can be seen, taking over the hallways, courtyard and classrooms.

“It is a wicked, but lovely sport,” sacker Ben Brigance said. “Because your team, the people you cooperate with, at the same time are your competition because you are trying to get them out, it is bittersweet.”

Groups of students have been caught multiple times by teachers playing hacky sack, but some teachers have a mutual understanding.

“I use to play hacky sack when I was in high school and in college too,” broadcast teacher Michael Ellis said. “So I get the draw. It’s a fun little game, it’s communal, it tends to lead to laughs and a kind of silliness, and it was always a good time.”

The hacky sack is used in a multitude of ways, but the most common way of play is called three sack wack.

“I play five games of three sack wack a day probably,” sacker Wilson Chestney said. “And typically it is five to six people a game but I have played with 13 maybe 14 people before.”

It takes four days of consistent sacking– a consistent amount of sacking would be six times a day in order to become an okay sacker.
“It’s really not [challenging] you just have to have basic motor skills and you will be good at it.” sacker Cameron McCrae said. “It is very witch hunted by the APs, because they are afraid of the game and they know they are bad at the game.”