KNOX COUNTY (WVLT) – Scott High School’s next football opponent will swap team colors on Friday, just one week after a car crash killed four members of the Highlanders cheerleading squad.

Knoxville Catholic has asked its students and staff to attend the game wearing red instead of green and gold. The school calls the special event a “red out” and said it is meant as an outward sign their inward thoughts, prayers, and love.

"The last thing we want to do is draw attention to ourselves,” said Dickie Sompayrac, the principal of Knoxville Catholic. “This is something our community and our students want to do."

Paige Jackson is a freshman at the school and considers herself a die hard fan of Irish. But in spite of her allegiances, she plans to honor her fellow East Tennessee students.

"I'm going to wear red,” she said. “I'm going to come into school in all red just to show them I support them, even though I don't go to their school."

Red is the color of the cheerleading uniforms that Nikki Hughett, 16, Aleasha Hill, 17, Jamie Hill, 15 and Ashley Mason, 15 wore on the sidelines of the Highlanders game against Anderson County. Less than three hours after the game, the four varsity squad members were involved in the fiery two car collision that killed Hughett and the Hill sisters as well as Jeweline King and her unborn grandchild. Mason passed away the next evening at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

"Our students will pay $2.00 to come out of uniform on Friday,” said Sompayrac. “The proceeds will go to the victims families in Scott County."

The school is not only encouraging students and staff to wear same red, but it also hopes anyone who attends the game on Friday will also come dressed in the color.

"I know students in schools take pride in their school colors, so to drop their color and put on ours is just felt by all of us,” said Cynthia Reynolds, the Scott High School cheerleading coach. “We were all excited to know they were going to do that for us."

The Highlanders won’t have the home field advantage when they take on the Irish at the Knoxville Catholic All-Sports Complex on Friday, but it will feel a little more like home.

“Usually you're cheering for your team to win,” said Jackson, “but we're going to be cheering for the other cheerleaders and the entire school."

If you would like to make a donation to the cheerleader’s families through Knoxville Catholic, just write out a check to “Knoxville Catholic High School,” write “Scott County” in the memo line and drop it off at the school anytime this week. They will also collect donations at the game on Friday.

Sacred Heart Cathedral School is planning its own "red out" on Friday, and all the money it raises will also go to the Scott County Families.