On Saturday, Sept. 21, students in the drumline competed at Clark Stadium in the Plano Drumline Competition. The percussionists placed sixth in their division and moved up to a higher division than last year in the competition.

“So this year we were competing against mostly 6As, like we competed against Mckinney,” percussion director Nathan Lewis said,” but we placed higher than Mckinney which was pretty neat, so we beat a couple of 6A schools in the classification.”

The band will perform in Denton at the Golden Triangle competition on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 2:45 for the prelims performance. They will compete against 20 other groups. The performance is open for students and families to come watch. 

“I think that it shows that we have a lot of room to improve, but we are really off to a great start, and it’s promising,” drum major Joe Harris said. 

Percussion students, including the drumline and the front ensemble, have been learning their show since late July and have performed during the halftime shows with the band. 

“We did rehearsals before [the performance], and those were really really clean so we felt really good going into the competition,” performer Maddy Allen said.

According to Lewis, players ran into a couple of problems while performing.