Ponderosa High School's
Color & Winter Guard
2024 Marching Band & Color Guard Season is Coming Soon!
We welcome our new band director, Mr Merrill!
It's not too late the color guard as part of the PHS Mustang Marching Band!
To begin learning our basic color guard skills, join us Monday evenings from 5:30 - 8:30 from June 10 - July 15 for our summer sectionals.
2024 Marching Band Camp Dates:
July 22: 8 AM-3:30 PM
July 23: 8 AM-3:30 PM
July 24: 8 AM-3:30 PM
July 25: 8 AM-3:30 PM
July 26: 8 AM-3:30 PM
July 29: 4 PM-8:00 PM
July 30: 4 PM-8:00 PM
July 31: 4 PM-8:00 PM
August 1: 4 PM-8:00 PM
August 2: 4 PM-5:30 PM
*Video created by the talented student Lily Foco!
Ponderosa offers Color Guard during marching band season and Winter Guard during the winter!
Marching Band
Registration Fee: $TBD
Summer & Fall Semester
May - October
Any student is welcome to join PHS Color Guard and join our Marching Band program. We begin practice the summer before our competition season at the beginning of the school year. We perform at halftime during home football games and attend our own marching band competitions.
Winter Guard
Registration Fee: $TBD
2 days per week + Saturday Competitions
November - April
Our Winter Guard Club is our competitive season for just the guard! We will usually practice two or three times a week. We will also add competitions on some Saturdays. We will take our dance and equipment skills and use them to create a unique and entertaining show that we will compete with at performances on the Rocky Mountain Color Guard Association circuit.
The benefits students derive from being in a color guard or winter guard are innumerable!
Experiences that mold the a student's future!
Students experience a community of peers all focused on a positive common goal.
Students learn about commitment.
Students learn that competition is a means to set new standards and they learn to push themselves to meet and try to surpass those standards.
Students learn to respect their competitive peers and grow from that experience.
Students learn how to cope with situations that sometimes don't feel fair and they learn how to turn that experience into motivation for growth.
Students learn the art of communication to others through performance.
Students develop the self confidence to tackle tough tasks and see them through to completion.
Artistic and Physical Development
Students benefit physically from the training and demands placed on them through movement, dance, and prop manipulation.
Students build endurance through expanded rehearsal and training programs.
Students learn how to solve problems creatively and adapt to the need to be flexible in their pursuit of their performance objectives.
Students learn music! The rhythmic and dynamic challenges placed on them turns them into visual musicians as they illustrate the sound of the show through body and equipment.
Students broaden their aesthetic reality through diverse program and performance situations.
Benefits to the School and the Community
The presence of a competitive guard in a school places the students in the public eye bringing positive awareness to the school and the community. They are a public relations asset.
Once they join marching band, their programs are enhanced through the guard's ability to create and illustrate the music for the gratification of the viewing audience.
The commitment and dedication of the guard, learned through winter programs, enhances the performance standards of the entire band.
Most of all, the students find joy through performance, establish lifelong friendships with their peers, learn to network with others participating in guards throughout the world and create memories that last a lifetime!
- From Winter Guard International