Marching Band Has Successful Saturday

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Ashley Vannoy 
Staff Reporter 
Southeast Polk marching band
brought home a first and second
place title on Saturday.
Photo credit Ashley Vannoy. 
 The marching band competed in the Cedar Rapids and Urbandale Marching competitions, on Saturday October 3.  For the students involved, it was a busy day. Their Saturday morning began with a report time to the high school at 7:40. They drove by bus to Cedar Rapids and performed at 1:15.
The day isn’t even halfway over then. After the awards ceremony, the band will departed for Urbandale. There, they performed at 9:24 pm.
“I hope we will do well, because we have been practicing daily. We have spent a lot of time on both the music and the marching,” said sophomore Heather Baier.
Students tend to always have a good time at each marching band competition. They get to hang out with friends, watch other bands perform, and do what they enjoy on the field.
With the colder weather that follows in with October, students pile along to the competitions with blankets and hand warmers since they are outside for nearly the entire day.
“It’s very exciting and after you’re done you feel accomplished. It makes the long days worth it,” Baier said.
The band will return to the high school at 11:00 p.m. after the Urbandale Marching Invitational.  

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