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Show t Pleasant Grove Marching Band Earns Third Place in the Mission Viejo Competition I ' - The Pleasant Grove High School Marching Band performed on Main Street in Disneyland, Anaheim, California. Photo courtesy ol'Auslin Rushlon by Danica Baird This school year Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School's Marching Band has earned numerous honors for their spectacular performances. On October 12, the Marching Band competed at Brigham Young University. They surpassed last year's impressive high score earning earn-ing 820 points. Twenty-one bands from Utah competed, including the renowned American Fork band. Senior Zach Price said, "I was astonished when we earned 820. To end on such an amazing note my senior year was just fantastic." The Marching Band also competed at the Bridgerland Invitational in Logan on October 3 1 . Over twenty-nine twenty-nine marching bands from Idaho and Utah performed in this competition. Facing off against these impressive bands, our band earned second sec-ond place with a superior rating rat-ing of 815 and brought home their first award of the year. Price said, "I couldn't believe we got second place. When they announced third place, I felt so discouraged. discour-aged. I thought there was no way we could do better. When they announced we had earned second, 1 was stunned." The Marching Band also received good news when senior Zach Mackenzie Macken-zie was awarded First Chair in the All-State band. With these notable achievements, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School's Marching Band left for their annual Band Tour. On November 3 through 7, they traveled to California Cali-fornia to compete in the prestigious Mission Viejo Marching Band Competition Competi-tion as well as performing on Main Street at Disneyland Disney-land in Anaheim, California. Califor-nia. At the competition they performed a mix of "Piano Man" and "We didn't Start the Fire," a combination of "My Life" and "Only the Good Die Young," "Air' (Dublinesque)," and "Just the Way You Are." Their spectacular performance resulted in a third place trophy. tro-phy. Senior Austin Rushton said, "I felt really proud and really happy about what the band has accomplished this year. We worked so hard all year. I couldn't believe we earned third place." As the marching band season has concluded, overall the band performed extremely well this year and has left a strong legacy for next year's band to follow. |
