2025 McKinney Marching Invitational (Oct 4th)

[SharksAreCool]

The McKinney Marching Invitational will be held at McKinney ISD Stadium on October 4. As of 9/07/25

9:30-Allen Hs
9:45-Rockwall Heath Hs
10:00-North Forney Hs

*Break*

10:30-Colleyville Heritage Hs
10:45-LoveJoy Hs
11:00-Argyle Hs
11:15-Panther Creek Hs
11:30-Melissa Hs
 

*Lunch Break*
 

12:45-Lebanon Trail Hs
1:00-RockHill Hs
1:15-Heritage Hs
1:30-Celina Hs
1:45-Wylie Hs

 

*Break*
 

2:15-Rockwall Hs
2:30-Grapevine Hs
2:45-J.J. Pearce Hs
3:00-Memorial Hs
3:15-Reedy Hs

 

*Break*
 

3:45-Independence Hs
4:00-Emerson Hs
4:15-Plano East Hs
4:30-Plano West Hs
4:45-McKinney Boyd Hs (Exhibition) 
 

*Prelims Award Ceremony*

 

 

 

Edited September 7, 2025 by SharksAreCool

[Tubalord11]

8 hours ago, OWB_Nation said:

The McKinney Marching Invitational will be held at McKinney ISD Stadium on October 4. As of 3/30/25

1. Rockwall
2. Wylie
3. McKinney*
4. McKinney Boyd*
5. McKinney North*
 

*=Most likely exhibition

 

 

All 3 McKinney schools will be in exhibition! Also here’s some others schools going per their calendar: 

Lovejoy 

Grapevine 

Frisco Reedy 

Frisco Emerson 

Frisco Memorial 

Melissa 

Plano East 

Plano West  

Plano Senior 

[bobbyporter]

Rockhill (Prosper Tx)  is also attending this competition and is skipping BOA Bedford this year after a impressive run last year!!!

[Mike McBandiel]

Looks like Argyle is attending this according to their calendar

[SharksAreCool]

The defending champions are returning as JJ Pearce has been confirmed 

 

Per their band calendar 

[BandDad11]

Rockwall-Heath has this on their calendar too

[SharksAreCool]

11 hours ago, BandDad11 said:

Rockwall-Heath has this on their calendar too

Interesting they do this contest instead of Donna Hanna. I think they can sneak into finals with this.

[dfwhorn]

3 hours ago, SharksAreCool said:

Interesting they do this contest instead of Donna Hanna. I think they can sneak into finals with this.

Seems like North DFW will one day just be Melissa and McKinney as the non BOAs in town, at least Don Hanna is still going strong, cant say the same about Plano East though, from what I think multiple are dropping from an already tiny contest. I think don hanna will live to see past it though it is a good contest for medium sized programs.

[TexasStrangers]

On 6/11/2025 at 12:38 AM, dfwhorn said:

Seems like North DFW will one day just be Melissa and McKinney as the non BOAs in town, at least Don Hanna is still going strong, cant say the same about Plano East though, from what I think multiple are dropping from an already tiny contest. I think don hanna will live to see past it though it is a good contest for medium sized programs.

Yup, there seems to be more and more schools starting to host their own competitions and the some schools just don't have the budget to compete in a lot of contests every year now that state is a yearly thing (smaller schools) and not to mention so many band programs that are up and down year to year. I know there were a couple of competitions last year where lots of schools dropped to go somewhere else that in their eyes was more competitive. 

[dfwhorn]

12 minutes ago, TexasStrangers said:

Yup, there seems to be more and more schools starting to host their own competitions and the some schools just don't have the budget to compete in a lot of contests every year now that state is a yearly thing (smaller schools) and not to mention so many band programs that are up and down year to year. I know there were a couple of competitions last year where lots of schools dropped to go somewhere else that in their eyes was more competitive. 

Yeah, it seems like it will get to the point where its just the really big and known contests remaining because of those factors. Sad to see it happen to some contests like the Plano East contest that was doing good a couple years ago to being a bit empty now, and the plenty of schools that have dropped contests in the past. 

[BugWub24]

Allen will be attending per their calendar

[SharksAreCool]

3 hours ago, BugWub24 said:

Allen will be attending per their calendar

Thanks. Added to the list.

[BugWub24]

Colleyville Heritage is attending! I am interested in seeing how they will place here. 

[SharksAreCool]

1 hour ago, BugWub24 said:

Colleyville Heritage is attending! I am interested in seeing how they will place here. 

Updated now. Seems like this competition gets more competitive as more of these bands confirm. It’s gonna be a close battle for sure

[JFNDOWBFAN]

Side note, I think this is one of the nice venues for contest imo

[Tubalord11]

19 hours ago, JFNDOWBFAN said:

Side note, I think this is one of the nice venues for contest imo

It is but the mainly bleacher seats..wish they had chairs

[JFNDOWBFAN]

5 hours ago, Tubalord11 said:

It is but the mainly bleacher seats..wish they had chairs

Maybe I shall write to the School Board and get some more comfy chairs, better yet give me a 50 yard line suite until my kids all graduate the band world!

[SharksAreCool]

Just added Frisco Independence who I believe was a finalist here last year.

[BugWub24]

Celina has on their calendar “McKinney And/Or Princeton Contest”. Possibly an interesting addition 👀

[SharksAreCool]

46 minutes ago, BugWub24 said:

Celina has on their calendar “McKinney And/Or Princeton Contest”. Possibly an interesting addition 👀

👀

[JustAnOldBandMom]

I don't see this on Plano Seniors calendar, looks like they added Duncanville instead.

 

[BugWub24]

Lebanon Trail confirmed for McKinney!

[Tubalord11]

3 hours ago, BugWub24 said:

Lebanon Trail confirmed for McKinney!

Def adding some serious competition here. This is probably the strongest lineup this comp has seen 

[JFNDOWBFAN]

1 hour ago, Tubalord11 said:

Def adding some serious competition here. This is probably the strongest lineup this comp has seen 

Definitely going to be a strong warm up for area for these bands

[SharksAreCool]

6 hours ago, BugWub24 said:

Lebanon Trail confirmed for McKinney!

Added to the list. This is probably one of the most stacked McKinney comps I’ve seen in a while. This is gonna be good.