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Q&A: An Interview with...
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Written by Darcie Gudger
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 |
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Jenn Carrasco currently has two Colorado teams holding gold medals from the 2010 RMCGA winter guard season. Her Independent group, Malachi is a two year gold medalist in IA. Her high school group won the gold in SA and will be traveling to BOA in the fall with the band. Jenn is known through the circuit for her kindness and helping hand. Her teaching methods are effective and both programs are growing annually. (intro by Darcie J. Gudger) |
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International
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Written by Matt Johnson
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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So, winterguard certainly started in the USA, but where else in the world can you find it? Well, you know those five flags that hang above the World Championships banner at Dayton every year? They’re a good start! You have the United States, Canada and Japan... and also the flags of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Colorguard is in Europe too! Europe has two circuits: Winter Guard United Kingdom (WGUK), and Color Guard Netherlands (CGN). These circuits have competitive units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France, with units also currently being formed in Ireland and Italy. The activity is growing around the world, and so this article talks about the colorguard activity in Europe, what’s the same, and what differs from what you’d find in North America. |
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Fun Ideas
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Written by Catina Anderson
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
This week's fun idea was sent to us by reader Heidi Zarder, coach of the Hamilton High School Synergy Color Guard from Sussex, Wisconsin! Thank you Heidi for taking the time to share your fun idea with the CGE Community!
Heidi plans a night of fun JUST for the guard parents! I think this is a FANTASTIC idea! Here's what she wrote:
"To get the parents to know one another in order to recognize each another at football games & competitions we host a parents-only dinner. It's gotten too big for my house therefore one of the parents "hosts". I bring several lasagna's, alfredo shells, tiramisu & cheesecake... Part way through the evening the guard captains show up to thank parents for their support (we hand out something for them to wave or shake in the stands and each guard member writes a thank you note to their parents)...We have time for questions & answers with the coach (and band director) and the rest of the evening is spent talking about "the kids"."
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Fun Ideas
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Written by Catina Anderson
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
Well - a NEW category! Movement Monday is going so well that I thought it just might be nice to have a new weekly post to look forward to. So, inspired by Cheryl, I started to think of another important thing coaches need to think about on a weekly basis... and of course the title had to have alliteration...
So it's FUN for FRIDAY!
SO much of our job as coaches is about making this performance experience FUN. But, too often, the stresses that come along with competition, the fear of letting people down, the time crunches, the fight for rehearsal space, the teenage drama... all of it... can leave us FORGETTING about the FUN... and soon it can become all work.
Thankfully, we have competition days which usually bring back those wonderful feelings of why all that work is worth it.
But I thought it would be nice to seek out fun ideas to share with our community. As coaches, we should PLAN fun into our lessons to make even the work seem easier ("A Spoonful of Sugar"...as Mary Poppins would say!) rather than just taking for granted that the fun will come. We can seek out ways to make sure our students know that we care about THEM more than the score. We can PLAN FUN to ease the tension that can grow during those tedious weeks of cleaning or rewrites.
So for this week my fun idea is... |
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