Contact

Band Director: Ben Pollack

Guard Director: Sharie Heth

saheth@dcsdk12.org

Mr. Pollack is the new band director at Ponderosa as of the Fall 2023 season.

Ms. Sharie is a Ponderosa High School graduate and she started coaching the color guard with the Marching Band in 2021.

She previously was the sponsor of the Color Guard Club and Winter Guard Club at Mesa Middle School.

She took over as director in 2017 after assisting Rachel Brown for the "Flaws" 2016 Winter Guard season.

"Alice" was the first winter guard show Ms. Sharie designed and choreographed. Mesa placed 4th in the Middle School Class at RMCGA's 2017 State Championships.

Mesa's Winter Guard had a very successful competitive season with their show "Rise" where they placed 2nd in the Middle School Class at RMCGA's 2018 State Championships.

"Bird Set Free" in 2019 was when Mesa became State Champions for RMCGA's Middle School Class. Mesa received their first competition win and then finished with all 1st place performances.

"Enter Sandman" in 2020 ended early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Ms. Sharie is so proud of the MMS record breaking high scores at the competitions they perfomed at. They were the only group in RMCGA to break 90 points for the entire season. This group was so incredible that the judges asked them to move up to a high school level class to compete!

During the day at Mesa Middle School, Ms. Sharie is an educational assistant in the AN department, formerly in the SSN department. She was thrilled to combine her two passions when her Color Guard club performed at half time of a Project Unify game being featured by ESPN in October of 2017.