NCHS Colorguard falls short at West Invitational

Sam Scheltens, Staff Reporter • Oct 6, 2016

The NCHS Colorguard didn’t place as well as they had hoped at the Normal West Invitational on September 24.

After the guard was awarded with ‘Best Auxiliary’, for an outstanding performance by a color guard, and achieved Grand Champion in all classes, in Class 3A in Morton on September 17, they had high hopes. But September 24, at Normal West, the color guard was unable to repeat their success.

“They just didn’t have their best run tonight,” said band director Mr. Lance Meadows, referring to the September 24 performance.

“We were tired, and we weren’t all together, so it affected our show in the long run,” said Emily Brewster (11), a member of the guard. Guard captain Rita Randazzo (12) added, “Since we won Grand Champion the week before, we were getting ahead of ourselves and let the win get to our heads.”

Amber Waller and Kelsey Anderson, coaches for the guard, had expected good competition from other schools, but weren’t worried about them.

Despite the highest hopes from Normal Community, Dunlap High School’s color guard took home ‘Best Auxiliary’ that night.

Waller said that the girls “were excited to win again,” although they did foresee issues with self-motivation, after their success at Morton.

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Sam Scheltens, Staff Reporter

Sam is a senior at NCHS, and is involved with marching band, Film Club, and the spring musical when it rolls around. He is a staff reporter for Inkspot. When are you most comfortable? I tend to be most comfortable after a nice cup of coffee, especially in my pizza pattern sweatpants. In the dead of winter, I find that all of it becomes 1000 times better. Maybe mix some hot chocolate in my coffee, that sounds good too. Book that moved me Cujo by Stephen King was an emotional ride for me. The mental struggle of Cujo - who he knows he is versus what the rabies tells him to do was very heartfelt, because the audience couldn't stop him. Many of the other characters struggled financially, with adultery, with abuse, and other human conflicts. Biggest pet peeve People who can't drive worth a hoot. Like seriously, the DMV needs to make licenses harder to get or something, People can not drive around here. I never know whether I will make it to school or back home on any given day.