Guard of the week- Grass field High School

This week's guard of the week is...

 

 

Grassfield High school

from Chesapeake, Virginia 

 

 

 

Grassfield is a widely known guard from Chesapeake, Virginia that has a vase amount of history as a guard. Started in 2007, the guard has been spinning and competing in many competitions and took home countless of awards including:

• 5th out of 20+ bands at the 2014 the Parade of Champions competition at James Madison University
• straight superior ratings for multiple years (basically since the school has been opened) including 2014 & 2015 VBODA (their assessment) 
• 2015 Charlotte WGI finalist (varsity guard
• AIA state champions in class scholastic regional A2 2015
• WGI Norfolk Regional placed 8th out of 20 and made finals in 7th place
• AIA Powhatan high school 1st place
•  AIA Mount Vernon high school 1st place
• AIA Atlee High School 2cd place 
• first place at Virginia Beach Sports complex in their class and best guard
• AIA Virginia North State Championships 4th place
• won all caption awards in their class At Tallwood invitational, first place in their class, and ended up  getting second place overall
• won all caption awards (best music, best guard, best visuals, best general effect, best percussion....) in class, won first place in class, and ended up winning all of the overall titles and grand champions for both 2014 and 2015 seasons At Cavalier Classic
•  State Champions at ODU

 Grassfield show last year called "House of Cards" included Four movements (Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs, Spades...show was about the battle for the house of cards) and went undefeated with best guard, winning best guard at every show. The guard has also hosted numerous of things like the WGI Norfolk regional in 2015 and 2016 and still hosting, with their band, their very own marching festival called the Grizzly Marching  Classic

The group use to have a JV and Varsity indoor guard in 2015, but ended up realizing they were better together and decided to come back together as one team during our 2016 indoor  season to compete in the AIA and WGI in scholastic A1 and hope to move up to open class for winter guard in a couple of seasons. Grassfield has also been to WGI Championships a couple times, and plans to go back this upcoming season (2017) and planning on going to BOA in Delaware at Delaware University.
 

 

Even the coaches have a lot of experience in guard. One of the coaches is spinning with Carolina Crown for her second year this season, the other coaches, performed with Crossmen, have helped write shows for Phantom Regiment and Carolina Visual Production (CVP) winter guard, and have also wrote drill for high schools in Texas and other schools all over and one coach has even been teaching guard for 37 years.
 

Not only does the guard program over achieve, but as well as help bring guard to their community. The guard program has started Great Bridge Middle School Guard where the coaches go to that school and work (write their show and teach them)  with the middle school kids. Many of the kids at the middle school end up coming to Grassfield to spin with them and  Many of the Grassfield  students also help coach the middle school team as well. 

They also created the Chesapeake colorguard summer camp, which is opened to anyone and everyone. It offers help in all areas from beginners to advanced. Grassfield High School marching Grizzlies  has also traveled a bit too, Performing at Disney World multiple times including last spring in the electric lights parade (in magic kingdom) and also participate in the city's Christmas parade each year. During our winter guard season, the school host a "friends and family show", where they invite other schools in the area to come out and perform their show just for fun. There are no awards, just guards doing what they love. This event allows the coaches to explain the show to the audience, and allow other guards to watch other shows.

Overall, the guard has accomplish more than they know and help create a guard program for a team. This guard has major goals and other things they want to achieve and will definitely  be doing it pretty soon.

Guard of the week

Grassfield High School

 



 

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