tribal achievements
November: can’t miss events
nov. 9, 2016 Mackenzie Ivey // photo
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Chorus Coffee House Nov.10
Freshman Girls’ Concert Choir will perform at 7 p.m. in the Chorus Room in A115.
SIC Choices 101
Nov. 17
7-8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. The School Improvement Council visits for parents. Advocating against substance abuse.
College Application Day Nov.18 Receive help with the College Application process in the CAS Career Center
Freshman Night
Nov.29
6:30-8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Information night for current freshmen and their parents -“How to excel through guidance.”
Powder Puff Game
Students perform in the band showcase on Nov. 5 and celebrate winning second place in the Bands of America Atlanta Super Regtional Competition on Oct. 29.
Band illuminating the path to Indy
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Twelfth. Eleventh. The Wando Marching Band stands in the Georgia Dome Stadium, hands locked together, throats working in fear, excitement, anticipation. The remaining 12 bands that have made it through the preliminary round now wait for their final ranking. Tenth. A sigh of relief whooshes through the students. It’s not them. Not this year. Not again. Ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth. Some students titter -- thinking that the Walton band is their own name. Fifth, fourth, third. On the field of the stadium, it’s difficult to hear the announcers call out over a scratchy loudspeaker. But then the next name is called, and after a beat of ringing hesitation -- the sweaty, tired students know. They know that they just got
second place in the Bands of America Atlanta Regional Competition on Oct. 29. “I am so proud of how the band performed this past weekend, it being my senior year made this weekend even more special,” senior Sean Grady said. “After getting 10th last year we all knew what we wanted to do, we wanted to go back to Atlanta and show everyone that last year was a fluke and we are here to compete.” Wando Band won first overall in Class AAAA competition in the preliminaries, taking home first place in the three categories-- visual, musical and overall effect. Wando took first in visual overall as well. “We started working on this show in July and dove in head first -- so the payback of getting second and overall visual is just amazing,” senior ColorGuard member Sidney Campbell said. “And it’s good to know our hard work has finally paid off, although we still have so much more work to do for Nationals.”
Dec.1
5 p.m. at the Old Wando Stadium. The game costs $5 and there will be concessions with pizza, chips and candy. This event is run by the Student Council and is refereed by teachers and helpers from the wresting team.
--compiled by Paige Mistler
The band directors, just as the students, spend hours of their time outside of school working to make the marching band better, and even then, the directors still attribute their success this past weekend to the students themselves. “Honestly, I expected them to do their best. And that’s all I ever ask of them. Every time I talk with them right before competitions [I say] ‘Guys you have all of the tools you need, we’ve done everything we could do, go out and do your best…’ And that’s exactly what they did,” Assistant Director Lanie Radecke said. The band will compete at BOA Grand Nationals in Indianapolis Nov. 10-12. “We are thrilled about this weekend, but we now turn our attention to Grand Nationals. We want to do even better there and hopefully rewrite Wando’s history again,” Grady said. “This group has fire and determination that makes it special.” --Ryan Rothkopf
achievements
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Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra
Coastal Carolina Judges Award
“I was really excited and also really nervous because it’s just a whole new ball game from what I’m used to in class orchestra. It’s much more difficult music and I was really intimidated,” she said.
“My piece was a design piece, we had to pick a subject and then use the patterns we learned to make an entire proposition. It was cool, I’ve never won an award like that before,” she said.
notable
Coastal Carolina Fair Youth Art Show held on Oct. 23 - Nov. 7 also included student winners, junior Mary Crimmons (first place), senior Charlotte O’Neil (second place), sophomore Maria Uribe (first place), senior Regan Thorp (Judges Award), senior Hannah Nadobny (third place ). Others include senior Ciana Clayton (first place), junior Rose Holstein (third place), senior Erin Signori (first place), senior Morgen Toney (first place in color photography) (Honorable Mention in B&W photography) and senior Isabella Lebron (third place).
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