Washington Versus Kennedy Football Game

This past week the entire school was pumped for the Washington versus Kennedy game at Kingston. Unfortunately, we lost by a large margin. I am not sure what the final score was because they were ahead at half time and I stopped paying attention when they were about 5 touchdowns ahead of us and I am not over exaggerating. Even though we lost by a lot the game was still pretty fun as always. For marching band we only marched pre-game because it was not a home game but it was still at Kingston. This was a very important night for us because it was a run through performance for the big show we had coming up on Saturday in New Brighton, Minnesota at Irondale High School. We were really pumped for our competition so we made sure to really have a good performance at the football game to get ready. It went pretty well and the student section was fairly quiet. We played and marching through our entire show on the field for the first time. We have run through the whole show in practice a few times but never with stands full of people watching us. I have to admit I was a bit nervous due to the difficulty of our music and drill but I was still excited. The show went good, we had some issues but it was not that big of a deal because it was not a competition. Our director usually just makes note of the things that cause problems at the football games and we make sure to address and practice fixing them during our rehearsals.

Afterwards, we got to go back up into the stands play our pep band music which is fun because then we get to check on how the game is going. Of course, we were still losing but it was still a little fun to watch. At halftime we got to see Washington’s band perform their marching band show and it was really good. We later found out they got 1st place at a competition at Linn-Mar we were supposed to be at if we wouldn’t have been going to Irondale. Based on this information I know Washington is going to be tough competition this year but I am excited. This is my third year in marching band and I think we have only beat Washington once if at all but we usually come in right behind them. This year I really hope we can push ourselves and get our show clean enough to beat them and maybe even come in first at one of our competitions in the future!