Hey Alumni!!
After a season of adventures, shenanigans, and fun, we’re here to tell you about the band’s journeys across the Ivy League! We pushed the band this season with harder music and drill, and we were delighted to see it come to life.
We started off our season with the “Get Up and Groove” show, which included “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! and “Dance the Night” by Dua Lipa. As always, we were impressed with the band’s ability to quickly adapt when we had to cut the second half of pregame last minute during our away trip (and very first game!) at Yale. Watching the alumni rush the field to join us at homecoming vs Colgate was a surreal moment, and then we got to play “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses all together, in the shape of a city we had built… what a memory!
Next, we marched our “Dungeons or Dragons?!?” show away at Harvard and home against Bucknell. We had a lot of fun crafting this show! In “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” from Mulan, we formed a majestic sword that sliced through ranks like butter. Then we marched “Fireball” by Pitbull and made a huge ball of fire (whoaaaa) that soared across the sky. Finally, we marched a medley from the hit movie “How to Train Your Dragon” and formed a magical roaring dragon that breathed trombones and tubas (spooky)!
For our third show, we marched our “Reckless” show at home against both Brown and Princeton. This show featured iconic bangers: “Toxic” by Britney Spears, “I Knew You Were Trouble” by Taylor Swift, and “Light ‘Em Up” by Fall Out Boy. Our goal was to lean into reckless relationship energy and bring that to the field. During “Toxic,” the band formed a giant heart, only for the drumline to march forward and break it to perform their drum break, written by Max “Heads” Fanning (‘27). The band followed with a dance break, choreographed by Hannah and Kathy. As always, this part of the season was pretty crunched for time, which makes us even more impressed that the band was ready to march all of show 3 for both games for the first time in at least 3 years!
As fun as the season was, we and our ShowComm2 had to wrap it up with our “Wave Goodbye” show. For pregame we marched “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” by Train, with drill written by Emily Andersen (‘27) and Jake Donovan (‘28), spelling out “BYE” to all the seniors who have shaped our band community for the past 3 years. For halftime we “waved” in a different way: by marching “Come Sail Away” by Styx and forming a grand sailboat across the field, with drill written by Jamie Heskett (‘27) and Dylan Carson (‘28). Finally, we all teared up during “Counting Stars” by OneRepublic, a sendoff for our seniors.
Thank you all for a wonderful season. We can’t wait to see what next year brings!
Oops all nets,
Hannah Blank ‘27
Ben Isaacson ‘27
Kathy Miller ‘28