Many significant things happened on this day. Starting from the beginning, Franklin Heights Marching Band went to competition for the first time in 2 years. Fox had been stressing this day to us since may. So we practiced our show to the best of our ability all summer till then.
The day before competition we were at Hilliard Bradley for a football game. We were lucky to have a chance to march on the performing field the day before competition. At the game was Devon. I didn't really know him but he graduated a few years ago. He played trombone, just like me. He was looking at Meghan's trombone and started talking to her about if she would like to use his trombone for a while. She took the offer and I ended up with her f trigger trombone. I felt more prepared for the competition than ever.
We arrived at school around 2:30pm that day ready to practice. The day before Fox was talking about someone a few years ago who passed away. Her name was Tiffany, and she loved being in the band. After practice, her dad came back to Heights to talk to all of us. He gave us a motivational speech and hired someone to play relaxing music for us and encouraged us to do our best.
Our first competition was at Hilliard Bradley. We arrived ready for anything. I remember how I had absolutely no nervous feeling in me...until we were lined up waiting to perform. The kind of nervousness that is strong but goes away after the we start performing. I also remember the announcer announcing that the results for OSU vs EMU was 73-20. This caught everyone in the competition off guard because none of us watched the game. We started getting agitated waiting for the competition to let us preform. But when the announcer announced we could take the field more nervousness settled in. The only part of the performance here where I felt bad about was the set where Alex knocked me hat crooked. But I quickly flicked my head to get it straight.
After the performance we drove straight to Grove City and went to get ready. We felt confident and went in there. The field was super worn out unlike Bradley's field. I heard complaints from some people that they couldn't see the lines. But I felt we did good at this competition. We had a lot of cheers from the stands when we came in, and lots of encouragement from Grove City.
At the end of the day all of our hard work paid off. The results at Hilliard Bradley was 1st place in our class, best percussion, a score of 247, and we qualified for state. At Grove city we received 1st place in our class, Outstanding Soloist (Chris Mitchell), participation plaque, a score of 244 1/2 and we qualified for state here too.
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