Since the end of their marching season, colorguard has been training by holding practices on a daily basis. A typical World Guard member’s practice schedule would be—Monday’s and Wednesday’s practice from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. while the other school days practices would start at 2:00 p.m. and last until 10:00 p.m. Colorguard members even had to take time away from their Thanksgiving weekend and Winter Break just to prep for upcoming events. None of these practices were held in front of a live audience, so on Feb. 3 AHS World Guard Preview Show was held. According to Christine the preview show was for World Guard “to get the fell of performing in front of a real audience.”
All this preparation for World Guard was for the upcoming high school invitational’s and regional, while A and B Guard only had to worry about one invitational. The first event for World Guard was the Roosevelt High Invitational held in Corona on Feb. 6. With exactly two more weeks to practice, World Guard was joined by A and B Guard at the Marina High School Invitational at Huntington Beach. The ultimate competition was the Winter Guard Competition (WIC) held at Rancho Cucamonga High School on Feb. 20 and 21. WCI Regional has many more schools which participate, along with well-known judges. Senior co-captain, Christine Lee felt that all these factors made “the competition that much more enthralling.” With consent from George, World Guard will be given the opportunity to compete at the World Championships held at Dayton, Ohio in early April. All returning members can definitely remark that Ohio is the most memorable competitions. Senior captain, Katherine Chin remembers meeting guards from all across the country, even the world, and how they all shared the same feeling of awe once they “walk[ed] down the steep tunnel into the stadium full of hundreds and hundreds of audience members.”
Given that these first couple of events marked the beginning of their competition season, Katherine hopes that they can keep bringing the enthusiasm and excitement to every show just like they did to the previous ones. She knows that with the help from one another, they can and will execute beautiful performances “at every competition…so that all [their] hard efforts [would] be rewarded.” Katherine has to prepare the girls to “persevere and be resilient through all challenges” to fully enjoy the experience of being in World Guard. Christine agrees with Katherine as well, because she hopes that they all walk away from the season “feeling good about it despite our placements or awards.”
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