Tuesday Practice Spirit Nights

For those who don't know, the Blue Band has a pretty intense schedule.  We practice every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4:00-5:45, every Tuesday from 7:30-10:00, and then our call time for game day is typically five hours before kick-off, but it could be earlier if it's a night game.  Because we are constantly around each other and the same routine week after week gets boring, we spice Tuesday practices up a little bit with spirit days!

Each Tuesday of the season is a different theme.  There's no prize for the most spirited, but we do take pictures together at the end of the night.  Some of our spirit days this season included:

Squad Goals

L to R: Rusty Bizaro, Jake Markert,
Allison Ruman, Dustin Woywod

A little background on this day: "squads" are groups of four or five who are always next to each other in halftime.  Our squad leader (Rusty) got the drill pages, and then wrote our drill and sent it to us (for example, he would write the beginning position for me [ex. 12 steps inside the front hash, 4 steps outside the 35], then my move [ex. forward march 12], and then my end position [if we follow this scenario, I would then be on the front hash, 4 outside the 35]), and we wrote it in our music.  There are about 80 squads in the Blue Band, it makes learning the halftime show much more efficient.

Our squad decided to do a Hawaiian theme. Other squads did things like Scooby Doo

L to R: Elise Grovanz, David Snowiss, Peter Meglis, Taylor Buchta, Mike Renzulli

Or perhaps a geek squad

L to R: Mathilde Hsia, Amy Winder, Justine Scheloske, Mike Good
Photo credit to Amy Winder

Squad goals was only the beginning of a season full of spirit


There was twin day

Elise Grovanz and Allison Ruman

Dress up like your favorite staff member day

L to R: Elise Grovanz, David Cree, Allison Ruman

(that one was kind of unfair, Mr. Cree is everyone's favorite staff member)

Pajama Day

L to R: Elise Grovanz, Josh Hackenberg, Rachel Neff

We can always count on our Vice President to remind us of spirit days with some cute spirited puppers

All in all, spirit days certainly aren't the most important part of the Blue Band, but they sure do make those long Tuesday practices a little more fun!

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