Disney trip deposit & travel form due to Donna by Friday...see packet for info!
WG Meeting is Oct 4th...see packet for info!
Tuesday = Practice 5-8
Thursday = Practice til 4:30
Friday to school = Black band t, jeans, and any athletic shoes.
Bring Pep Dress & Shoes & Poms for pep rally.
Friday to game = Sequins with tan jazz shoes. Hair down/front pulled back with headband. Loaded guard bag. Report time 6 p.m.
Saturday October 1, 2016...
Tigs will ride the bus going to and coming home from JSU!
They will need cash for lunch and dinner with them.
9:30 – Report to guard room in practice clothes worn over required undies (black bras please) like last Saturday...costume & all pieces in bag. No poms. Tryout T, black cami, skinny jeans, and any athletic shoe packed too. Eat breakfast before you arrive.
10:00 – Load buses, depart OGHS
12:30 – Arrive at JSU...lite lunch via concessions.
2:30 – Prelim Performance
4:30 – Prelim Awards
- Depending on outcome of prelims we may have the opportunity to perform during the finals competition...see "WHY GO" below!!
- If we DO NOT perform in finals, we will pack/load equipment and return to OGHS, stopping for dinner on the way home.
- In this scenario, arrival time at OGHS will be communicated via Remind.
"IF" we perform at finals parents will buy finals tickets at that time. Directions would be sent via Remind.
- Band boosters will provide a bottle of water and snack for the students between prelims and finals if needed.
NOTES...
BOA will not let folks enter stadium while band is performing...please make sure you arrive early enough to get into the stands and seated before your daughter performs :0)
Costume clean*. Shoes cleaned. Loaded guard bag...NO POMS!
Hair MUST BE fixed in correct style when you arrive Saturday morning.
Depart for JSU...you will do makeup & dress on the bus.
Guard will change into Tryout T and skinny jeans after they perform. Bring black cami to wear underneath. Any athletic shoes are fine.
Hair will be pulled into high pony after performance. Make sure you have hair colored elastics.
Small cross-body type purses are the only ones permitted for the day...must have have cash, a charged cell phone, and fem items in that one purse.
Finals = top bands that competed in prelims. We suggest parents purchase prelim tickets only. If we are lucky enough to win and stay for finals parents can decide at that point whether to buy & stay or not.
Ticket prices: $18 per person for Prelims / $18 per person for Finals
Please note:
Guard members will stay with the Guard group the entire day. They will be given cell phone breaks to check in with parents, but otherwise the cells will remain OFF and in their purse!! There will be tons of souvenir items and all types of food available...just remember you will be paying stadium and/or mall prices.
If we don't make finals expect buses home early. If we do perform at finals expect buses home by 1:30 a.m. Guard girls will be riding the bus home either way. They will call parents 20 mins before arriving at OGHS and must have a ride waiting for them when we arrive.
*costume handwashed in COLD water. fill the sink or tub with cold water, put in a few drops of mild detergent, swish to "suds" the water, submerge the costume & swish for 3-5 mins. Drain the tub, rinse costume with cold water, roll costume in towel remove excess water...hang dry. (jazz shoes smell horrid...please purchase men's extra strength odor eaters this week and put them in the shoes asap)
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Why go??????????????????
Last but not least...have you ever entered a competition you knew you may not win? Yes mams/sirs...we sure have and looking back at all the times we didn’t win made more of a difference in our group life than all the times we entered a competition knowing we had an advantage and would win. JSU is that competition for us this year!! Here are some reasons we should always want to face high quality competitors...
1. You/we will push your perceived limits farther then you ever thought you could. Whether it is the external pressure of the competition or the energy on the field, you will always push harder than you think you can when people are watching and you know your score counts.
2. Competition is a good way to take a snapshot of where you are right now. It gives you a concrete result that you can test against at any point in the future. Competition is testing, practicing, and retesting. No matter the type of competition, it allows you to say “this is where I am with this particular thing right now.” It allows you to see where you are and you see where you want to be!!
3. It’s a whole lot of fun! The camaraderie that forms with a group of people who are competing is even deeper than with a group of people who just happen to be doing the same thing side-by-side. The best times you’ll ever have is the bus ride home or going out to eat together to celebrate the end of a competition. There is a chemical release in your brain of endorphins (your feel-good, happy hormone) after the completion of a hard competition, and it’s even more intense when you are surrounded by the smiling faces of people who did it with you or cheered you on. There is no better feeling.
4. The joy is in the competition, not the practice. Band/Guard practice is done in order to perform the show well at games and contests. No one is ok with just going to practice everyday. If all you ever do is practice OR if all you do is only go where you know you will win...then you can’t say you are really a competitor of that sport; you are merely a fan. At some point you have to be willing to throw your hat in the ring...and to grow/learn that ring must be filled with tough competitors.
Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Psalm 37:23-24 “The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.”
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