Under the direction of Phil Fleming

BNL Color Guard

What is Color Guard?

Originally, a military color guard often traveled with a band, which would play a patriotic song. This use continued into the civilian marching bands, and today, a marching band’s color guard will normally carry equipment descended from those of military color guard: flags, rifles, or sabers. Color guards often choose costumes and props that coordinate with the theme of their show. Color guard membership can be very large, sometimes rivaling the number of musicians in the band or very small with a minimum of two people. Color guards also accompany drum & bugle corps, independent marching musical units which train during the early spring and compete during the summer months. During the 1970s and 1980s, much of the impetus for the evolutions of the modern color guard came from the arena of competitive drum & bugle corps, although winter guard, both independent and school-related, have claimed the cutting edge in recent years.

This is NOT going to be Easy.........

We are going to push you.

We will challenge you in ways that you have never been challenged before.

We have high expectations for you.

We expect you to have high expectations for yourself.

We will not accept complacency.

It is not always going to be fun.

You will get frustrated.

You won’t get everything right away.

There will be things that you just don’t understand.

And that is okay.

We are going to help you succeed.

We are going to utilize each individual, in the best way for him/her, to help them be able to succeed.

We don’t expect perfection, we expect your best effort.

It is not about scores, or placements, or winning. It is about being the best that you can be.

If you give 100% effort, 100% of the time, then you will reap the rewards.

If you work hard, then we will play hard.

More than Flags & Dance

  • Color Guard teaches:

  • Life skills

  • Time management

  • Responsibility within a group

  • Team building

  • Confidence in self and others

  • Respect for self and others

  • Discipline

  • Healthy competition

  • Strive to reach goals

  • Healthy Physical Fitness

Color Guard is a Sport of the Arts.

  • Unlike typical sports, there is not a rotation of players. Everyone plays all the time.

  • Each member has a unique show that only he/she will know.

  • Each member is a piece of the puzzle, without a piece, the picture is incomplete.

  • The group relies on each individual.

  • Each member is “irreplaceable”