Ethan Huff, Lance Gaude and Damien Washington take their positions before the winner of the Pink Wave Project pageant is announced during Cathedral’s pep rally Friday. Washington said he respects anyone who can walk in heels. “Beauty is pain, so I should be drop-dead gorgeous,” Washington said.

Huff prepares to walk in a pageant, which Jalen McCoy Jr. won.

Gaude prepares for the pageant.