LeanderMomma

The 2025 BOA Grand National Championships will be held November 13-15 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. I will start listing bands who are confirmed throughout the year as we hear about them. (Thank you @yayband for your diligence in this area!). AS OF 3/25/25: Anderson County H.S., KY Archbishop Alter H.S., OH Avon H.S., IN Avon H.S., OH Bartlett H.S., TN Beechwood H.S., KY Bentonville H.S., AR Broken Arrow H.S., OK Brownsburg H.S., IN Campbell County H.S., KY Carmel H.S., IN Carroll H.S., IN Castle H.S., IN Center Grove H.S., IN Centerville H.S., OH Chattahoochee H.S., GA Columbus Schools, IN DeSoto Central H.S., MS Dobyns-Bennett H.S., TN Dorman H.S., SC Dripping Springs H.S., TX Edwardsville H.S., IL Fairborn H.S., OH Farmington H.S., UT Finneytown H.S., OH Fishers H.S., IN Flower Mound H.S., TX Franklin Community H.S., IN Goshen H.S., IN Greendale H.S., WI Greenwood Community H.S., IN Huron Valley Schools, MI Jenison H.S., MI Jenks H.S., OK Kenai Central H.S., AK Lakota West H.S., OH Lambert H.S., GA Lawrence Township, IN Miamisburg H.S., OH Morton H.S., IL Munford H.S., TN Nation Ford H.S., SC Neosho H.S., MO Noblesville H.S., IN O'Fallon Township H.S., IL Pittston Area H.S., PA Plymouth-Canton E.P., MI Rockford H.S., MI Ronald Reagan H.S., TX Round Rock H.S., TX Russell Independent H.S., KY South Forsyth H.S., GA South Oldham H.S., KY Southlake Carroll H.S., TX Southmoore H.S., OK Sparkman H.S., AL The Woodlands H.S., TX Tri County H.S., MI Troy H.S., OH Walled Lake Schools, MI Wando H.S., SC William Mason H.S., OH Worthington Kilbourne H.S., OH Yukon H.S., OK

I feel like it’s been discussed to death over the years but maybe those discussions are happening more on HornRank than here.

I have updated this post about WGI Austin. And I am still jonesing for a new space for all Winterguard/Indoor posts to go! 🥰 @Danpod @Clarinot @Xenon

That’s nothing! 🤣

That was Robert. He’s magnificent!!!

Yes that’s right! We were!

I’m back home in NW Arkansas packing for Indy. 😅

Haha this reminded me when I was sitting behind some of the Bentonville chaperones at BOA Prosper and their t-shirts had SHEEPARONE written on the back of them. They are fully embracing that sheep theme this season! 🤣 This is just one of the many things I love most about this activity. The parents are ALL IN! 😂

BTW @danpod told me this weekend he will see about getting us a separate heading for all INDOOR events such as guard, winds and percussion! 😍😍

I am tempted to go and stay a week so I can also go to WGI Winds and Percussion!

I have done both. Driving is exhausting but it’s nice to have a vehicle for exploring the area. Flying is awesome if you can stay in downtown Indy in a hotel connected to the stadium and just Uber from and to the airport. Now that we live in NW Arkansas it’s only a 10 hour drive so that makes it far more doable!

Ha remember when we ended up directly across from each other on the first leg of our flights back to Texas?! I think it was in 2019.

Next time I’d love to meet you!

Oh how MUCH I loved that show! 😻😻😻

Same with Leander!!

Come do the Eagle Experience next year and sit in the press box area with us. It’s a much more enjoyable experience!

It was so good to talk with you yesterday! And as disappointed as we both were feeling, it’s a little redemptive seeing Leander and Keller as the first two bands out of finals I must say. 😊

Yes they were absolutely stunning to watch. I could not take my eyes off of them!!!!

I’m actually quite satisfied with them!! I have been ranking FloMo high for a few weeks now and it feels justified after the SASR results. That show is INCREDIBLE!!! I was screaming!!! 😂 I’m so happy for those kids This show was very Broken Arrow-ish but with that special Flo-touch added to it. It was perfection last night!!! I was also quite thrilled for McNeil and Seven Lakes to get into finals. We often say that we want to see some fresh faces in the SASR finals, and we got some!! McNeil is a fantastic program musically and so it’s nice to see them having success now in marching competition as well. And Seven Lakes honestly just blew me away yesterday. What a fantastic show!! What a performance! Congratulations to both of these phenomenal programs! There were so many amazing performances this weekend and I was so happy to experience them all live again in the Alamodome with my fellow band friends. And I can’t wait to get to Indy next weekend and do it all over again! Lastly I just want to say something about my amazing Leander kiddos (yes, they feel like they are my kids, lol). While I was definitely sad they didn’t make finals, it was quite comforting to see them soooooooo close to the cutoff. Leander has been underrated a bit in general this season, but I knew they were performing exceptionally well all year and this really just proved it to me even more with the highly competitive environment that this year’s SASR was. I know the prelims performance could have been a little rough for them after the medical delay (oh how I hope that sweet guard girl is okay), but they came right out and killed it after the emergency situation was handled and they were just an absolute joy to watch perform. Keep it up Leander! You will be great in Lucas Oil Stadium and I can’t wait to be there live to witness it!! Ok everyone, go get some well deserved rest as we push through one more week of competition. Good luck to everyone at state and GN this week!! GO BAND!!! 😊

Slight change in the schedule since Oak Ridge had to drop out due to transportation issues. McKinney and Hebron bumped back 15 min.

There is one small revision to the schedule (Sandra Day O'Connor moves to end of block 1 on Friday at 12:00 and Veterans Memorial moves to 10:00) so I have revised the OP to include the changes. Good luck everyone!

That’s what you got out of it?!?! 😬

Loved seeing Marcus take the colorguard caption!!!

After winning the guard caption at the US Bands Southwestern Championship this week, Marcus shows us why they’re knocking on the door of World Class.

Oh my goodness Cedar Park!!!! Wow wow wow! I absolutely can’t wait to see how this show does at GN!