Important Info

Hello Members and Parents, 

Below is A LOT of information - please make sure to look it over carefully and let me know if you have any questions. 

I have attached to the documents tab the clean up assignments for Saturday after the competition. This is for ALL open and A guard members. Each of you is required to stay until everything is clean. PLEASE make sure you do this. If you don't, I am left by myself cleaning up - often until after midnight. (Last year, I was left cleaning the band room because it wasn't done.) Please help me out. I will have been there all morning and night. Everyone will need to check out with me before you leave and I will mark you off. Please do not throw away any signs - I have paid to have them laminated so that we can use them again next year. 

Also attached is the food assignments (for open only). This is for the band dads and directors. Please make sure you do this as well. If you just can't, you need to let me know so I can ask an A guard member. Also, if you would like to switch with another member, that is fine - just make sure to tell Gretchen!

We will be setting up Friday night instead of Saturday morning (as I stated in my email earlier in the week). Captains are required to be there - but we could use more help. Please let me know if you can be there. We will start at 6pm. If we can get a lot of people to help, we can be done by 7 or 7:30. That means, call time for the open captains on Saturday is now noon.

The A and Open guard will be having one rehearsal during spring break. We know this is not ideal, but we can't go all week before championships with no rehearsal. Both groups will be rehearsing Thursday morning from 8-11am. We know that this is not a lot of rehearsal time, but we do want you to enjoy your spring break as well. 

I have audition dates for summer and field 2013 (please remember you must be in summer and field to march in A or Open guard for 2014). The date is April 13th from 8-2pm. If you are auditioning for a weapon, we will be having those on April 12th from 3-6pm. (You will still need to be at the Saturday audition.)

Lastly, I know a lot of you are waiting for summer guard camp dates. I have been working with Pancho to try and figure these out. He is now working 2 jobs, so it is a little harder for him to get time off - especially so far in advance. We are going to try something a little different for this year. As of now, we will most likely be holding a weapon camp sometime the week of June 17-21. Then we will have a flag/weapon camp hopefully the week of July 29th. I apologize that this is all of the information I have right now. As soon as I know more, I will let you know.

Thank you for all you do. 

Tiffany

Weekly Email

Monday: Rehearsal 6-8:30am

warm up on own - 10 min.

6:15-7:00 very ending after flag feature

7:00-8:15 stump entrance

8:15 run

Wednesday: Rehearsal 6-9am

10 min stretch, 15 min movement, 15 min technique

6:45-7:30 clean ending (what worked on Monday)

7:30-8:00 clean slow mo, work rifle from under leg to 45 toss

8:00-8:30 work rifle entrances 

Thursday PM: Rehearsal 5-8:30pm

10 min stretch, 15 min movement, 25 min technique

6-7 1st half - clean!!

7-7:45 clean second half

7:45-8:15 work entrance & exit

8:15 2 runs 

Fold floor correctly for Regional

February 2nd Show @ Northridge

Great show at Northridge. I think it was a great start to the season!

Farewell to Bailey

So, I realize this post is LONG over due. But I wanted to express my thanks to Bailey for EVERYTHING he did for me and our AF Guard program. He was such an amazing person. We will miss him so much. Here is a list of things Bailey did while at American Fork:

• He worked at AF from December 2009-January 20113
• Director of A Guard 2010 (with Cory) - "Dreams Do Come True" (http://youtu.be/GhowVA1Dbu4 )
• Summer & Fall 2010 - 2011 Assistant Director 
• Director of A Guard 2011 - "Reality is Perspective" (http://youtu.be/y4_zJtZs1h8)
• Assistant Director Winter 2012 - "Lake of the Divided Swans" (http://youtu.be/_7CMZWmtYnM)
• Assistant Director Fall & Winter 2012 - 2013 (The Agency & The Giving Tree)

Here are the things that Bailey did for our program to make us grow. I am so thankful that we have gained these tools from him to continue to make us better:

• Assisted in organizing, running, and teaching the students on a daily basis
• Drove the advancement of the overall technical facility of the program
• Brought a different perspective to the AF program regarding choreography and dance work/training
• Worked to advance the skills and achievement level of all the participating students
• Helped to ensure the program's advancement toward higher levels of competition and performance 

We love you Bailey and miss you already. Good luck in your future adventures. Thanks for the adventures you gave us! 

 

Family Night Performance

Here's your performance from last night. Great job guys!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYD2hsZqRo&feature=share&list=UUs3uQq0ZItRK4b_qXRhxwtg

Canceled Parent Meeting

Hello Parents,

It seems that this year has certainly served up some bumps in our guard program. I first want to thank you all for your continued support. 

I have decided to cancel the parent meeting for tonight. Below are the things we were going to discuss, and the reason as to why I am canceling the meeting. 

If you did not receive a packet at auditions, I will be emailing them out by tonight. This packet includes rehearsal times and competition dates.

Also, at the bottom of this email is a list of all the blogs. Please keep track of the blog weekly for information regarding your students team. The B & Wasatch Academy blog is going through a few changes, but should be finished by tomorrow.

Ok - here are the items that were to be discussed tonight:

Payment for B Guard and Wasatch Academy

We have been working through this change for 3 weeks. As of this morning, nothing has been resolved. We are no longer able to take money at the high school for anyone who is not 9th-12th grades. So, we have been working with the junior high and the district to get this worked out. Still a work in progress. I am sorry we don't have more answers for you. Please be patient with me and I hope to have a resolution by the end of this week.

Tour for A And Open Guards

We were finally approved the day before the Thanksgiving break to go on our trip. However, the San Diego Regional was full by that time. I am looking into other options as well as trying to get more information from WGI about this regional. But, there is a waiting list right now. I have made the decision not to put our name on this waiting list. We would have to pay the $400 - which is non refundable - and most likely not get into the competition. 

Again, I am looking into a few other options. But this is all the information I have at this time.

I am so appreciative of all the parents for your love and support. It has been a rough year for me. I have hit a lot of obstacles that I wasn't expecting and I am so thankful to work with the parents and staff that I do. THANK  YOU!!

Sincerely,

Tiffany Miller

Director, American Fork & Wasatch Color Guards

http://americanforkcolorguard.blogspot.com/

http://americanforkaguard.blogspot.com/

http://afbguard.blogspot.com/

http://wasatchacademyguard.blogspot.com/

IT BEGINS . . . . .

WINTER GUARD

 

 

It is hard to believe that it is already WINTER GUARD time.  Didn't we just finish the field show season?  We held our first of many Winter Guard Camps this weekend.  Thank you Pancho for coming in to work with us.

 

 

 

We worked hard Thursday, Friday and Saturday and have made good progress on our show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was important that we had everyone at the camp, but someone had surgery, another girl had her wisdom teeth out, another one had to work part of the time, another had a conflict, we truly appreciated the girls who gave up their weekend to be a fill-in.

Thanks

 

Alli

 

Bronte

 

Emily

 

and Erin  for helping out.

 

 

It was a fun filled weekend. 

 

 

 

Thanks for letting me come in for part of your practice.  It is amazing to me how quickly you all learn and change and learn again your show.  I cried happy tears watching you as you did a complete run of the first part of the show.

 

Love you all,

Momma Blanco