SCHOOL NEWS
Mighty Marching Maroon has tough UIL marching contest
The University Interscholastic League Region 5 competition did not go as well as the Mighty Marching Maroon hoped as an incident on the field left them coming home with all threes on Saturday.
“We didn’t do well at all and ended up getting all threes. We had seven kids fall down,” explained Bowie Band Director Kendel Hickenbottom. “It was a situation where one was going too fast, tripped and fell, causing the next to trip.”
The incident ended with one student taken to the hospital by ambulance, but Hickenbottom reports she was back at school on Monday.
“She wasn’t the first who tripped, but she had been sick and tried to make the competition and when others fell on her it was too much,” said the band director.
The band remained professional and continued to perform as the director carried the student off the field.
“They finished as I was bringing her off and we found out how severe the situation was and the ambulance was called,” said Hickenbottom.
The judges were not sympathetic to the situation, as the band was informed their music was too hard and the marching was too difficult.
Read the full story in the mid-week News.
Make the transition from junior high to high school easier by attending Jackrabbit Preview Night starting at 5:30 p.m. on April 7 in the high school cafeteria.
Students and parents will complete and sign high school graduation plans. You also will learn about high school classes, degree plans, dual credit and much more. Attendance is encouraged.
Nocona High School’s one-act play competed at district on March 27 and while it did not advance it did received two awards.
“Antigone in Munich: The Sophie Scholl Story,” was the play. Director Chrissy Shubert said they played fifth in the event.
Brayson Resendiz received All Star Cast and Jessie Howard honorable mention All Star Cast.
Adamari Alonso, junior at Bowie High School, has qualified for the state theatrical design competition conducted through the University Interscholastic League in May.
Theater Arts Teacher April Word explained this is Bowie’s first year to enter this contest. Students were entered into marketing, prop, costume and set design as well.
Alonso is the daughter of Eduardo and Angelica Alonso.
Students were given a musical and this year it was “Axoloris” by Shawn Mendelson. Word explained after reading and researching the play they had to create as though they were professionals in the theater industry.
“They started by creating a vision board with the requirement it be inspired by an artist or artistic movement. For hair and makeup they had to choose three characters from the show and map out a design for them, and then create it on a model. Then they wrote an essay justifying the design choices they made,” the teacher explained.
All of this was submitted to UIL and through several rounds they chose six from the state to compete. The UIL theater arts webpage shows a total of 12 finalist for the 1A-3A category.
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