Hay Day has been a tradition since 1996, typically held in the fall, but a couple of times it has had to be rescheduled to the spring semester due to weather. Jeff Riddle, chair of the physical education department, hosts Hay Day at his farm in Damascus every year.
Hay Day this year is Tuesday, April 9, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Riddle farm. There will be games, including human foosball and horseshoes, paddle boats, fishing and the annual hay bale jumping contest.
Hay Day started as an alternative to a specified Halloween party and is now one of the longest student activity traditions behind Harvest Party and Spring Fling.
“It gives students an opportunity who may not have a chance [otherwise] to get to know each other. It brings all of the student body together at a function that’s off campus, and that makes a unique atmosphere. Sometimes people will make friends, share a moment, make a memory at CBC that they may not have otherwise been able to make,” says Riddle.
Directions to the Riddle farm can be picked up in the Student Services office.
Junior Mark Brandon reaches for an apple during a game at Fall Hay Day 1997. 
Bro. Jeff Riddle gives CBC students information and instructions before they load up for the hayride at Fall Hay Day 1999. 
Jeremy Brown and Shane Luwallen sing around the fire at Fall Hay Day 1999. 
Two students prepare for the pie eating contest at Fall Hay Day 2000. 
Group photo at Fall Hay Day 2000. 
Three students prepare for an apple game at Fall Hay Day 2000. 
Bro. Jeff Riddle poses with three students at Fall Hay Day 2007. 
Students smile for the camera at Fall Hay Day 2007. 
Students smile for the camera at Fall Hay Day 2007. 
Group photo at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Students smile on the hay ride at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Student goes face first into a pie at the pie eating contest for Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Students sing around the fire at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Students at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Bro. Jeff Riddle addresses students at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Students participate in hay bale jumping contest at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Student reaches for the apple at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Students socializing at Fall Hay Day 2009. 
Before roasting hotdogs and marshmallows, students gather on trailers pulled by trucks for an old-fashioned hay ride at Fall Hay Day 2011. 
Bro. Jeff Riddle addresses students at Fall Hay Day 2011. 
Students enjoy s’mores at Fall Hay Day 2011. 
Students mill about at Fall Hay Day 2013. 
Student jumps hay bales at Fall Hay Day 2013. 
Clay Nance jumps hay bales at Fall Hay Day 2013. 
Lauren Crawley jumps hay bales at Fall Hay Day 2013. 
Friends at Fall Hay Day 2013. 
Candra Barnett, Makayla McCrackin, Lauren Whenrey and YoYo Cho smile for the camera at Fall Hay Day 2014. 
Memories made at Fall Hay Day 2014. 
YoYo Cho makes a face at the camera at Fall Hay Day 2014. 
Andrew Lipscomb catches a fish at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Rachel Steele and Katie Fleming wave from the back of a truck at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Frisbee at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Blake Riddle and Landon Riddle play catch at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Ryan Guyton and Cody Miller pose for the camera at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Paddle boating at Spring Hay Day 2016. 
Kateryna Ligon and her daughters at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Preston Jones and Tyler Sanders playing horseshoes at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Joshua Kwekel and Bro. Jeff Riddle at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Henry Hill playing Frisbee at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Dalton Parker and Blake Pittman at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Roasting hot dogs at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Sunset hay ride at Fall Hay Day 2017. 
Max Sullivan and Josh Burns “sword” fighting at Fall Hay Day 2017.