The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats are the official supporters group of all of the sports teams that represent Makkari High School in soccer,baseball,softball,volleyball and other sports.Their biggest influence are The Timbers Army of Portland and The Emerald City Supporters of Seattle and supporters groups of Japan,Korea,England and The United States.The group is named after The Desert Rats,a name for The 7th Armoured Division (UK) which served in North Africa and Europe during World War ll and were named in honor of their desert home.The group was founded in 2003 by Marty Greene,a British transplant and Erick Healy,a white American who were students at Makkari High at the time.Their official symbol is the school's mascot,The Elegant Trogon.

The group's first year was its most successful as applications to join skyrocketed.The group is made up mostly of British transplants who lived in Sierra Vista and neighboring Bisbee,white Americans,Mexicans,Americans of Japanese descent and Japanese transplants who helped the club have a Asian,North American,English and Spanish influence,most are former and current students and members who aren't enrolled in Makkari.At the school's soccer stadium,they would on the south side of the stadium and in baseball,they sit in right field their school's beautiful new ballpark,which was opened in 2012.

They will also travel when their teams go on away trips to other parts of Arizona,California,Utah,Colorado,Texas and New Mexico,and on occasion,go to United States soccer games as The Sons of Liberty.One of their traditions is singing the national anthems of Japan and The United States and then singing Makkari High School's fight song.They will sometimes play side-by-side with the school's marching band,the only marching band in the country that uses taiko drums.When the Trogons win,The Rats sing the school's victory song and let off fireworks.The club is also a protest group and usually protest against discrimination against Muslims,Hispanics,other Japanese-Americans,racism,sexism,war,fascism,poverty,censorship,The War in Afghanistan,minimum wage,The Republican Party,inequality and other things.They are also supporters of The Democratic Party.