Almost Home Brings Home the Gold!

Saginaw, MI
March 27, 2010

2010 Almost Home --> Be OK From Left to Right: Back Row: Robert Becker, Keith Burns, Sharon MacDermaid, Sarah Mundwiler Front Row: Emily Mundwiler, Rachael Yomtoob, Mackenzie Bush, Ciera Bowden, Riley Breimayer.

2010 Exit 52 --> Fireflies
From Left to Right:
Back Row: Lindsey Schuller, Keith Burns, Sharon MacDermaid
3rd Row: Karen Mae Wesolek, Kayla Blough, Amanda Wilson, Sarah Mundwiler.
2nd Row: Rachel Phelps, Alison Huffman, Nicole Bagin, Danielle Bagin, Bree Heikkila
Front Row: Kayleigh Davies, Robert Becker, Jodi Carvill


The Michigan Color Guard Circuit held its 35rd annual championship competition at Saginaw Valley State University on Saturday, March 27, 2008. Two local guards were on hand to compete for top honors.

Exit 52, consisting of 12 members from Lowell High School and Almost Home, consisting of 5 members from Lowell Middle School. Both came to SVSU for the MCGC championships event with high hopes of winning big. Exit 52 is in its 4th year of competition in the MCGC and performed their 2010 program Fireflies set to the music of Owl City. The show opened with a flag solo by Robert Becker and a full guard dance section followed by the entire guard on flag. Exit 52 featured their rifle line in the middle section of the show and included a partner feature with the flag line and the rifle line. The last section of the show featured the entire guard on impressive gold flags. Six of the flags contained hidden gold and neon green confetti which was thrown out of the flags during the final flag feature which represented fireflies. As the confetti fell to the floor, the show concluded with a flag solo by Sarah Mundwiler who ended the show holding a jar of light up fireflies. The guard received an excellent crowd response and had a great ending to their 2010 competition season.

Almost Home is in their 3rd year of competition and performed to the song, Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson. Almost Home had a strong regular season and had their best performance of the year on Saturday. The show featured soloists Rachael Yomtoob and Emily Mundwiler and was a crowd favorite all season. Almost Home was the 2008 Flag Line Class Champion. They went into the Championships event in 2nd place putting them in medal contention again this year. At the awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon Exit 52 placed 4th in AA Class competing against 12 guards. It was a very close finish with just over 2 points between 1st and 4th place. Almost Home returned the title of Flag Line Class Champions to Lowell by once again placing 1st at the MCGC Championships.

All of the students involved in Exit 52 and Almost home have worked for countless hours on these programs and deserve kudos for all of their hard work and dedication.

Exit 52 and Almost Home are under the Direction of Sharon MacDermaid. The Staff of Exit 52 also includes, Karen Mae Wesolek, Lindsey Schueller, Keith Burns and Brian Liwak. The Staff of Almost Home also includes Keith Burns and Junior Staff Members Robert Becker and Sarah Mundwiler.


Thanks you all for your support during our 2010 competition season.

Full Scores from the MCGC Championships are available for download from the MCGC Guard Scores Link