Throughout middle school and high school, I have participated in many different activities that have taught me many different lessons as I’ve grown up. I have been in color guard since 6th grade and couldn’t imagine my life without it! Every year I have strived to be my personal best and although it hasn’t been easy, I have continued to grow and move my way up the ranks to an officer position in my Junior and now my Senior year. I am very proud to represent & support my guard team.
In this role, I have gained many social skills and a lot of patience. I first joined guard in the middle of my 6th grade year at Largo Middle school. Coming into this I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My very first memory of guard was at tryouts. It was held in the lunch room with all the tables pushed to the sides and we were broken up into groups. The instructor had just taught us some very simple work and a couple basic tosses and I was really struggling with a flat toss. Everyone was trying to help me and I eventually went off with one of the instructors and still wasn’t getting it. But, I made it onto the team and I practiced really hard and
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One of my goals is to march with a drum core (hopefully The Canton Bluecoats, The Cadets, The Phantom Regiment, or Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps) for one or multiple summers if I can pull it off. I really enjoy being around such creative and hardworking people. There is just a certain type of positivity and family aspect in band no matter where you go and I think that’s so important. I see my band more than I see my own family most weeks. You can’t spend seasons with people and not grow into one family. And, just like a real family we fight, and yell, and get extremely irritated with each other but at the end of the day we are able to create something so special and magical that those feeling can’t do anything but