Hey everyone!
We are Catherine and Lauren, and we are your Spring ‘25 Pep Conductors! Both of us have conducted the Pep Band in the past, and we are more than honored to do it again this semester. We are seeing a lot of familiar and new faces at weekly rehearsals, which works well for our future as we have a large senior class graduating but a large class of dedicated first-year students as well!
While we are still early in the semester, we have been on two away Men’s Hockey trips so far to SLU/Clarkson and Brown/Yale. The games against Brown and Yale included a much-needed weekend sweep, boosting the men’s chances of making it to the ECAC playoffs. This has been an enormous morale booster going into our final Men’s Hockey games at home for the regular season as we continue the tradition of fancy hockey within the band and get ready to honor head coach Mike Schaefer in his last game from the home bench at Lynah.
Speaking of playoffs, our Women’s Hockey team has been doing OUTSTANDING! They are currently ranked 3rd in the nation, along with winning the Ivy and ECAC regular season titles. After a well-deserved bye week, the women host the quarterfinals at home the week of Feb 28. Speaking of winning Ivy titles, our wrestling team just took home their title at home with the band in attendance on Feb 9th. We have loved playing at these events this semester and can’t wait to go to more!
We have also been to a few basketball games for both the Men’s and Women’s teams, and we hope to follow our Men’s team to Ivy Madness in Providence as they are currently in the final qualifying spot. Looking ahead, we are excited to start attending lacrosse games as their seasons start up this semester! Our men’s team won the regular season Ivy title last year, and we hope to see them carry that momentum into this season.
Peace and many victories ahead!
Catherine “European national anthem connoisseur” Frank
Lauren “Convinced my entire family to go to Fancy Hockey” Noll