Varsity Winter Guard

The end marks a new beginning...

Congratulations Tigard Winter Guards! I'm so proud of all of you. I hope that you all continue to spin and keep your skills up because, as you know, there's always another season ahead :) Especially those weapon skills. Pick up the rifle and saber often and keep your muscles trained. The more we know when we return to rehearsals, the farther we can go!
Keep in touch and I love you guys!
Tisha

Drivers NEEDED

This weekend is going to be different than all the other competitions we have been to this year. There is only one round of competition. Percussion happens early in the day ending at 2pm. Guard starts after that and ends at 8pm.

Therefore, the guards are NOT going to ride the bus to the competition in Vancouver this weekend. However, we will ride the bus home.

WE NEED DRIVERS TO CARPOOL THIS WEEKEND.
Please ask your parents/guardians if they could drive you and a few others to the show Saturday.

I need space for 6 JV to leave at 2pm.
I also need space for 8 Varsity to leave at 3:30.

Ask NOW. PLEASE!

VIDEO!!!

This is from the NWAPA website:

Next Level is now offering an opportunity for every unit that attends one of our events. For a small fee of $.99 anyone who is interested may purchase and download a video recording of any unit that has attended one of our events. Go to http://www.nextlevelmarchingband.com, click download videos, select a unit you wish to download, add to cart, purchase, and enjoy! This is a first for the Northwest and will hopefully be the first of many great technological endeavors for the NWAPA.

As an added bonus NWAPA will have its first ever Winter Championships DVD for the 2009 season that will be produced and edited by Next Level. For more information check out the Next Level website for details on how you can obtain memories that you can hold on to forever!

This is awesome! ORDER!!

WGI Recap

We ended up 10th with a 60.7. You can see the results on www.wgi.org and clicking the Vancouver Regional on the homepage.
One more week! How do you want to end your season?

WGI Schedule

Load Truck Friday 3:45pm
Arrive at THS 7:45am
Busses Leave at 8:00
Arrive at Union High School at 9:00

PRELIMS
WDL prelims 10:45
WG prelims 1:20
Prelims end at 4:08

FINALS
WDL Finals somewhere between 5:25 and 6:10
DRUM LINE AWARDS at 7:10
WG Finals somewhere between 7:45 and 8:57
GUARD AWARDS at 11:00

Leave for THS after Guard awards
Arrive THS/unload truck at about 12:15
PICK UP TIME 12:30am

There are 2 possibilities for pick-up times this weekend. The one above will hold if both the guard and drum line make finals OR if just the guard makes finals.

If the guard does not make finals, we will leave Union at 7:30, be back at Tigard by 8:30 with a pickup time of 8:45.

Please tell your rides both options so there are no surprises. Thanks!

For the next 2 weeks

Hey all!
I haven't had an opportunity to listen to the judges' comments, and I will post my thoughts when I have a chance. However, I have looked at the recap in great detail. Here's the link. The percussion recap is first so you have to scroll down quite a bit to see our class.

http://www.nwapa.us/admin/event_images/big_photo/5_~09TigardPrelims.pdf

We are pretty close if not above some of our competitors in Equipment and GE. However, in Movement and Ensemble Analysis we are over 3 points down in EACH caption. Movement has been a struggle for us all year. Ensemble is something we haven't had time to address. This is going to be our focus from here to the end of the season: smoothing out the show and cleaning up parts that have individuals still sticking out.
WGI this weekend! Of the 19 SA guards, 10 go to finals. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could go to finals in our very first WGI regional??
Tisha