Some teams celebrate a victory with a party, but the Baker University indoor track and field team celebrated its Heart of America Athletic Conference victory by making a Harlem Shake video.

The Harlem Shake is one of the most recent trends popping up on the internet. YouTube videos depict a person dancing in the midst of a normal setting before the entire room of people, usually clad in costumes and odd props, joins in and begins to dance wildly.

Senior Aaron Caldwell helped to plan and edit the track team’s Harlem Shake video.

He said the idea came to them after the first day of competition. The team was doing really well and decided it would be a cool way to announce their championship if they won.

“One thing led to another and we thought this would be hilarious,” Caldwell said.

The night before the final day of competition, Caldwell and other track team members prepared to film the next day. They gathered a video camera and a laptop to edit and then downloaded the music.

To record the video, Caldwell stood on a platform and filmed the team standing there while assistant track coach Ian Hankins danced around for about 15 seconds. Then, he had the whole team dance around for another 20 seconds or so. With just those two clips, Caldwell was able to edit and create the video in about an hour.

The track team wasn’t the only group on Baker’s campus with the idea to film a Harlem Shake video.

Junior Grant Sundbye wanted to make a campus-wide Harlem Shake video.

Sundbye got the go ahead from Dean of Students Cassy Bailey and had Collins Center reserved for the filming. The Marketing Department also wanted to make a video, and after it realized an event was already in the works, decided to film Sundbye’s version rather than starting one more video.

“I thought it’d be a fun event we could share and it’d bring campus together in a weird, funny way,” Sundbye said.

Sundbye created a Facebook event to invite all of his Baker friends, and encouraged them to bring along anyone else who wanted to partake in the video. Ultimately, Sundbye’s Baker University Harlem Shake video was canceled due to snow.

Sundbye said he and the others involved in planning the video anticipated that not a lot of students would show up to the video filming because of the ugly weather.

“I was a little bummed but I’d rather not do it at all than do it and have it not be good,” Sundbye said.