Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time to Celebrate! Final Cut!
The new and final date for our celebration will be Saturday, April 24 from 1:00 pm to 4:00ish pm. All information found in the original Celebration statement is correct so please make sure you read through that posting and RSVP ASAP. I understand that this date isn't going to work for everyone and my apologies for this in advance, next season we will set the date in the beginning so that we can avoid any conflicts and have all members present to celebrate your hard work and efforts. Thanks for a great season everyone!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
End of the season celebration!
Exit 52 and Almost Home end of the year celebration will be held this Sunday, April 18 at Lowell Lanes. The celebration will begin at 1:00 and last until approximately 4:00 pm. Bowling will be from 1:00 to 3:00 with pizza, coaches gifts and festivities immediately following in the dining area.
The guard will cover the cost for each of the 17 members and one parent per family. Additional family members are more than welcome for $10 each. This cost covers 2 hours of bowling, shoes, unlimited soft drinks and pizza dinner following our bowling time. This payment can be made at the bowling alley, but I will need to know the number of additional family members ASAP so that Lowell Lanes knows how many people to expect and how much pizza to have.
As mentioned at dinner technology is available so that we may view any videos, cd's etc. If memory serves me Amanda volunteered to put together any pictures others were willing to send her so that we may view the fabulous memories of the season. Please get your photo's to Amanda.
Coaches donations. I have collected funds from a few families while we were in Saginaw, I know there is a time crunch and not having practice makes it a little difficult to collect prior to our event but.....If each family could give their money to Brianna at school this week or drop off your $20 contribution to the Middle School that would be very helpful.
RSVP is a MUST: Please email me (Diane Heikkila) at either dheikkila@lowellschools.com or dmheikki@aol.com with the number of family members that will be attending on Sunday. Please list the subject as "guard" so that I will recognize your response.
Any comments, questions and/or suggestions are welcome. Thank you all for your time and efforts this season!
Signed, GMGW 1 & 2
Guard moms gone wild! Stacey and Diane
The guard will cover the cost for each of the 17 members and one parent per family. Additional family members are more than welcome for $10 each. This cost covers 2 hours of bowling, shoes, unlimited soft drinks and pizza dinner following our bowling time. This payment can be made at the bowling alley, but I will need to know the number of additional family members ASAP so that Lowell Lanes knows how many people to expect and how much pizza to have.
As mentioned at dinner technology is available so that we may view any videos, cd's etc. If memory serves me Amanda volunteered to put together any pictures others were willing to send her so that we may view the fabulous memories of the season. Please get your photo's to Amanda.
Coaches donations. I have collected funds from a few families while we were in Saginaw, I know there is a time crunch and not having practice makes it a little difficult to collect prior to our event but.....If each family could give their money to Brianna at school this week or drop off your $20 contribution to the Middle School that would be very helpful.
RSVP is a MUST: Please email me (Diane Heikkila) at either dheikkila@lowellschools.com or dmheikki@aol.com with the number of family members that will be attending on Sunday. Please list the subject as "guard" so that I will recognize your response.
Any comments, questions and/or suggestions are welcome. Thank you all for your time and efforts this season!
Signed, GMGW 1 & 2
Guard moms gone wild! Stacey and Diane
Monday, March 29, 2010
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
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 --> FirefliesFrom 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
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Championships Update
The MCGC CHampionship Schedule is now available for download on the MCGC site.
Follow this link (MCGC Guard Championships Schedule) for details.
The game plan at this point is to meeting in the Hotel Lobby at 8:45am on Saturday so we can get to unit check in around 9:00am. Almost Home will need to be ready to perform with their uniforms on and their make up done. Exit 52 will need to be presentable but not in uniform or show makeup.
Almost Home performs at 10:21. Their awards are at 3:17. :)
Exit 52 will need to head back to the hotel to get ready and should be ready in uniform and full makeup at the 1st awards ceremony at 3:17. We will meet in the turf room at 4:15 to begin our warm up. All Exit 52 members should bring a beach towel with them to sit on in case it is nice enough to stretch outside.
Exit 52 performs at 5:25 and their awards are at 8:45. :)
Mae performs with Interplay World at 8:35 pm.
Diane Heikkila is getting the goodie bags together for the kids and is organizing the group dinner on Friday night. More info on that soon.
It's hard to believe this season is coming to an end. I am very proud of both of our guards and I am looking forward to a wonderful weekend at SVSU.
Follow this link (MCGC Guard Championships Schedule) for details.
The game plan at this point is to meeting in the Hotel Lobby at 8:45am on Saturday so we can get to unit check in around 9:00am. Almost Home will need to be ready to perform with their uniforms on and their make up done. Exit 52 will need to be presentable but not in uniform or show makeup.
Almost Home performs at 10:21. Their awards are at 3:17. :)
Exit 52 will need to head back to the hotel to get ready and should be ready in uniform and full makeup at the 1st awards ceremony at 3:17. We will meet in the turf room at 4:15 to begin our warm up. All Exit 52 members should bring a beach towel with them to sit on in case it is nice enough to stretch outside.
Exit 52 performs at 5:25 and their awards are at 8:45. :)
Mae performs with Interplay World at 8:35 pm.
Diane Heikkila is getting the goodie bags together for the kids and is organizing the group dinner on Friday night. More info on that soon.
It's hard to believe this season is coming to an end. I am very proud of both of our guards and I am looking forward to a wonderful weekend at SVSU.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Grand Blanc Contest Results
This past weekend Exit 52 & Almost Home traveled to Grand Blanc for their final regular season contest of the 2010 competition season. Both groups had outstanding performances and I could not be more proud of a group of kids than I am of all of them right now.
Exit 52 placed 2nd again this week which has then ranked 2nd in the state in their class going into Championships this weekend. Almost Home placed 3rd but it was sure a close one with only 0.5 points between 2nd and 3rd. Almost Home is now ranked 3rd heading into Championships.
Scores from Our Classes. . .
Flag Line
1 Reeths-Puffer Cadets Green 89.00
2 Reeths-Puffer Cadets White 87.80
3 Almost Home 87.30
4 Marysville Junior Flagline 74.50
AA
1 Lake Shore Aria 73.40
2 Exit 52 71.50
3 Inspiration 70.90
4 Maumee Winter Guard 68.80
5 Reeths-Puffer JV Winterguard 68.20
6 Troy High Winter Guard 67.50
7 Troy Athens Alias Winterguard 65.30
8 Godwin Heights Color Guard 64.30
9 Mount Pleasant High School Winter Guard 64.20
10 LHS Mystique 58.60
Both groups will be traveling to Saginaw on Friday to compete on Saturday at Saginaw Valley State University and are both in medal contention being ranked 2nd and 3rd.
Exit 52 placed 2nd again this week which has then ranked 2nd in the state in their class going into Championships this weekend. Almost Home placed 3rd but it was sure a close one with only 0.5 points between 2nd and 3rd. Almost Home is now ranked 3rd heading into Championships.
Scores from Our Classes. . .
Flag Line
1 Reeths-Puffer Cadets Green 89.00
2 Reeths-Puffer Cadets White 87.80
3 Almost Home 87.30
4 Marysville Junior Flagline 74.50
AA
1 Lake Shore Aria 73.40
2 Exit 52 71.50
3 Inspiration 70.90
4 Maumee Winter Guard 68.80
5 Reeths-Puffer JV Winterguard 68.20
6 Troy High Winter Guard 67.50
7 Troy Athens Alias Winterguard 65.30
8 Godwin Heights Color Guard 64.30
9 Mount Pleasant High School Winter Guard 64.20
10 LHS Mystique 58.60
Both groups will be traveling to Saginaw on Friday to compete on Saturday at Saginaw Valley State University and are both in medal contention being ranked 2nd and 3rd.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Advance discount tickets for MCGC Championships
This weekend is the last weekend to purchase advance discount tickets for MCGC Championships.
Advanced Ticket Prices are as follows:
Individual ticket prices are $10.00
Family packet of (4) for $35.00.
Tickets are available at the MCGC Merchandise booth at both the Grand Blanc and Milford shows.
Advanced Ticket Prices are as follows:
Individual ticket prices are $10.00
Family packet of (4) for $35.00.
Tickets are available at the MCGC Merchandise booth at both the Grand Blanc and Milford shows.
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