By: Ava Skoglund
Color guard is a team of performers who, with the band, help complete the feel of the performance.
CJ Pedroza, 23’, says, “I choose color guard because it’s a new experience for me. I wanted to try something different in performing arts.”
Pedroza says, “It’s a lot of hard work but the result is worth it all. Color guard creates such beautiful performances and I love every minute of it”.
Pedroza says, “The team this year is amazing! Everyone works so hard and is great at everything they do. They are all such lovely people and very supportive… They are the best part about color guard!”.
2022 winter guard season.
Vanessa Navarro, ’23, captain of the color guard team, says, “This year I definitely feel confident that we have a better chance of moving up as a whole team and the team is definitely stronger in our bond this year.”
Leah Debrie, ‘26, describes color guard as “the visual of the band” and says, “My mom did it, and I loved watching her, she showed me videos on YouTube and I fell in love with it”.
Color guard is not just a fun and beautiful tradition, training takes a lot of time and energy. Debrie says, “It’s very-very tiring and you have to focus on counts.”
Compared to performing in 8th grade, Debrie says color guard in high school is much more tense, bigger, and harder.
Debrie says, “I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone in band and guard.”
The relationship between participants of band and color guard is very good, they find themselves close to each other.
Skylyn Coppola,‘26, says that she’s mostly looking forward to going to football games this year.
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