Friday, November 13, 2009 8:56 PM CST
Winning bands earn a ticket to ride
High school, middle school bands both win championships
By the JG/T-C
editorial@jg-tc.com
MATTOON — The Pride of the Green Wave Marching Band received a fire truck escort through Mattoon around 8:15 p.m. last Saturday and the Mattoon Middle School Wildcat Marching Band received a police escort around 10:15 p.m. Saturday after both concluded their marching competition seasons on a perfect note.
History was made when both bands were awarded Grand Champion Trophies at marching band competitions on the same day.
The high school band performed in Class A/AA in the Atwood-Hammond Marching Rajah Band Festival Field Show and Parade Competition. The middle school band performed in the Oblong Spooktacular Parade Competition.
The next performance for the Pride of the Green Wave Marching Band and Mattoon Middle School Wildcat Marching Band will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 29 in the Mattoon Holiday Parade.
In the field show competition at Atwood-Hammond, the high school band performed their field show titled “Beethoven’s New World Tour 2009.” Selections in the field show included Beethoven’s Fifth, Halo Theme, New World and Ode to Joy. The color guard placed first, drum line placed first, drum majors placed second, and the band placed first.
In the parade competition the band performed “A New World-Third Movement.” The color guard placed first, drum line placed first, drum majors placed first, and the band placed first.
At the conclusion of the awards ceremony, Mattoon High School Pride of the Green Wave was awarded the Over-All Traveling Grand Champion Award for receiving the highest combined field show and parade scores of all classes.
The high school band is under the direction of Todd Black; color guard instructors are Angi Black and Allison Christian; drum major instructor is Mike Starwalt, and percussion instructor is Matt Black.
The Middle School was also successful at the Oblong Spooktacular Parade Competition.
The MMS Drum Line performed their cadences in the non-competitive Drum Line Showcase. They were the only middle school drum line that played in this event.
Later that evening, the entire band marched in the Spooktacular Parade. They performed the tune “Ghostbusters” and marched in their T-shirts with the “Ghostbusters” logo.
In the parade competition overall, the Marching Wildcats placed first. Drum Majors and Colorguard both were awarded the first place captions in their divisions. Drum Line placed second in their category.
At the end of the evening, over all all of the other junior highs, the MMS Marching Band was awarded “Grand Champion.”
The Middle School band is under the direction of Mr. Mark King along with student teacher Miss Sydney Kelley. The color guard instructor is Allison Christian and Colorguard assistant, Rebecca Hunt.
High school band
members include:
Drum Majors: Whitney Evans, Philip Zike.
Color Guard Members: Rebecca Hunt, Kasee Kasey, April Perkins, Andrea Aubrey, Hannah Austin, Courtney Beals, Lizzy Howard, Paige Paris, Courtney St. John.
Drum Line members: Joe Calio, Paul Calio, Philip Zike, Blayton Nelson, Jenna Bolin, Anna DeBuhr, Justien Diener, Whitney Evans, Kamisha Henderson, Aaron Jenkins, Kaitlyn Kerber, Elizabeth Lamb, Austin Neal, Jaime Pugh, Cory Rufener, Cassy Shaffer, Chris Third, Dakota Yeck-Petty, Ben DeBuhr.
Woodwind and Brass members: Jacob Barnett, Hannah Bell, Sarah Bradbury, Andrew Deremiah, Richie Fafara, Alex Goldstein, Stephen Hovious, Alex Keating, Riley Leitch, Bailey Luce, Alyssa Miller, Megan Schuler, Jordan Anderson, Chloe Ard, Sierra Arthur, Patrick Baxter, Zach Brazzell, Joseph Dotson, Andrea Drum, Brianna Epperson, Jena Evilsizer, Melody Gallaher, Ashley Gallinger, Zayna Hester, Stacey Hildebrand, Tim Lading, Sydney Lawrence, Kaitlyn McDevitt, Aaron Moutray, Briana Nevius, Tate Nichols, Thursa Pointon, Hannah Prevo, Cassandra Scott, Austin Sherman, Jacob Starwalt, Gabe Stoll, Anissa Swearingen, Nicole West, Hunter Worthey.
Middle school band members include:
Flutes: Sarah Foster, Katie Diener, Lacey Miller, Savannah Brown.
Clarinets: Kadie Gentry, Alleigh Hayes, Jessica Jones, Haylie Lading, Kenzie Pope, Cassie Ramey, Hannah Senteney.
Saxes: Andie Antonik, Nate Bell, Craig Henness, Zach Brooks, Layne Sanders, Tyler Smith, Justin Chambers.
Trumpets: Andy Bell, Amanda Juszczak, Dakota Couch, Chase Rich, Brook French, Dylan Figgins, Emily Carter-Alvis, Josh Hardy, Ben Sheff, Peyton Purcell, Jessica Henne-Lebeau, Carly Lowry, Katelyn Mason, Reece Newlin, Charles Osley, Taylor Warf, Mikaela Williams.
Mellophone: Carly Leitch, Daniel Ferguson.
Trombone: Gabby Smith, Nathan Williams, Jeremy Lebrecht, Jennifer Connett, Zane Miller, Zach Prevo, Gracie Forrest, Elijah Milligan.
Sousaphone Line: Ben Righter, Matt Calio, Matt Jacobs, Michael Reynolds, Brockton Williams, Dakota Tipton.
Drumline
Snares: Hayden Chupp, Ellie Bradbury, Megan Shaffer, Brooke Wilson, James Bunyard, Sean Dawson,
Quads: Holly Smith, Kinzie Stapleton, Brock Taylor.
Basses: Shyheem McCoy, Matt Etchison, Chase Vogt, Skyler Lane, Brewster Beadles, Spencer Sharp, Sean Sloan, Bryson Colbert.
Cymbals: Kaylee Nottmeyer, Nakaela Miller, Kate Gosnell, Dariah Rawdin, Max Tuttle, Drew Eastin.
Color guard: Sarah Etchison, Suzanne Black, Jazmyn Maggitt, Lesley Swick, Breanna Easton, Elizabeth Heldman, Kaitlyn Chambers, Harlie Bunyard, Sydney Edwards, Karlie Lading, Megan Heath, Samantha Miller, Faithe Jones, Stephanie Gentry.
Add your comments
Not already registered?
Then click Here.
Comment policy:
JG-TC.com encourages readers to engage in civil conversation with their neighbors. Comments that are submitted are not posted to the site immediately. They go into a queue to be moderated and may take several hours to be reviewed. Comments posted on Saturday may not be reviewed until Sunday afternoon.
In order to keep the page a set width, long lines (mostly long links) will be chopped. Try putting spaces in your links or consider using tinyurl.com to make a smaller link that you can include.
We will never edit or alter your comments, but we do reserve the right to remove comments that violate our code of conduct.
No comment may contain:
* Potentially libelous statements; such as accusing somebody of a crime, defamation of character, or statements that can harm somebody's reputation.
* Obscene, explicit, or racist language.
* Personal attacks, insults, threats, harassment or inciting violence.
* Commercial product promotions.
If you have any questions, please contact our moderator.
|
|
CLICK TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
Susan Smith wrote on Nov 14, 2009 10:22 PM: