Band Dismissed! U-High Pride!

We had senior night and our very last marching band competition this past weekend.  It is so bittersweet.  I am proud of us seniors and how we've managed to maintain a tight knit family through the band.  I'm also so proud of how we performed both Friday night and Saturday.   But, I am so sad that my time with the Marching Pioneers is over. I am going to miss my section but I know I made some very good friends through my role as drum major, within my section and the band.

My grandparents came to senior night and the competition.  It was really great to have more than just my parents there to cheer me on and support me.  While I was doing my salute at the beginning of the show, I saw my parents and grandparents smiling at me and giving me thumbs up.  It was really exciting and encouraging.  We had a GREAT last show. I started to tear up from the podium, as it was my last time being drum major for the marching pioneers (at least for field show performances, we still have a few parades left), and it was just such a good performance end on.

The best part of a competition, or worst part if we don't win any, is the awards ceremony.  The drum majors stand in a line and accept awards on behalf of our band.  We got to accept five awards for our band that night.  That is the most trophies we've won so far this season.  We won best drum majors, best auxiliary (which is the flags), and best percussion.  We also won the award for best percussion of the whole competition and second place in our class. We also had the highest auxiliary and drum major scores of the day, although there were no awards for those.  It was a little disappointing to get only second place in our class since we swept our caption awards, but the captions don't add into the class placement awards.

Senior night was great too.  As seniors we decided to dedicate our band performances to Mrs. Sulzberger, our assistant band director's wife who is struggling with breast cancer. The whole band wore pink gloves, and all the seniors wore pink bandannas in lieu of our hats.  At the end of our halftime performance, all the seniors peeled off and made a ribbon for breast cancer awareness.  It was really great.  Here is a video of our performance

http://new.livestream.com/uhigh/events/2481457/videos/32559253