naval academy preparatory school started the chant i believe that we will win.
naval academy preparatory school started the chant i believe that we will win.
who started the chant i believe that we will win?
naval academy preparatory school
in 1998, naval academy preparatory school (naps) student jay rodriguez was assigned to create a chant to be used by his platoon and came up with "i believe that we will win!". it was first used during a naps basketball game against the united states military academy preparatory school in newport, rhode island. a year later, now a naval academy student, rodriguez taught it to his classmate, cheerleader corey strong, who began using it during the 1999 army–navy game; in the fourth quarter of the 19–9 navy victory, strong led the 4,000-student brigade of midshipmen in the chant. in 2003, the midshipmen team showed marked improvement over their 3–30 record in the last three years; during a game that year against the no. 25-ranked air force falcons at fedexfield, navy students began reciting the chant as the midshipmen won 28–25. in preparation for the army–navy game later that year, navy sold t-shirts with the phrase written on them. the chant is currently performed by midshipmen in the closing stages of a victory.
i believe that we will win!
in wartime all ships carried the prefix "chant" followed by a number. a total of 43 were built and were named chant 1–12; chant 22–28; chant 42–45 and chant 50–69. "chant 7", "chant 61", "chant 63" and "chant 69" were lost during the war. they were all built in 1944 and had a gross register of just over 400 tons and a deadweight of 400 tons. they measured 148 ft oa by 27 ft beam. they had oil engines giving them a speed of 7½ knots. "chant 12" and "chant 28" were sold to france in 1946 retaining their names. the remaining survivors served various ship owners until their eventual scrapping mostly in the fifties and sixties. the last chant vessel ("success iii", ex-"chant 12") was scrapped in 2002.
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