Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Lauren - Marching Band

Lauren waiting out in the cold for the stadium to open for the competition.

Plainfield Marching Band on their way into the Stadium prior to the start of the event.

Plainfield Marching band receiving the 6th place trophy.

All ten bands lined up on the field for the awards presentation.


Lauren's band after their preformance watching other bands perform.
Plainfield band on the big screen during their performance.

Lauren's band performing.





It has been a very busy Marching Band season for Lauren (and for Mom & Dad!). Lauren's Plainfield High School Marching Band recently made it past Regional and Sectional competitions to qualify as one of the top ten out of 50 or so "Class B" size bands in the state. The top ten bands from each class got to compete on Saturday in the Indiana State Marching Band Finals competition at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. All ten bands got huge trophies just by reaching State.

In spite of being one of the smallest bands in their class that made the final ten, Lauren's band did very well and came in sixth. Their show was titled "Hunting Wabbits". Kathy, Travis and I attended the competition and had a great time. Our school had a good size group of fans at the event to cheer them on. Luckily, Lucas Oil stadium has a roof, so we were out of the cold. After the competition, band members and their families had a huge potluck in the High School cafeteria. Now that Marching Band season is over, Lauren will be participating in Concert Band, Pep Band, and Academic Super Bowl.

4 comments:

Sarah said...

That is great. Congrats Lauren, looks like a ton of fun and a lot of work payed off.

Abby Gail said...

Awesome....I loved competitions! Congrats to Lauren!

Erin said...

I'm so happy that Lauren gets to be part of such a great program. Wish I could be there to go to some of this stuff. We are sad to be over here all by ourselves!

Linda Cameron said...

Reminds me of performing at the UofA stadium in high school. I'm so glad that Lauren gets the same opportunity. I bet it keep mom and dad hopping from place to place.