Medina opens winterguard season with 2nd place in Orchard Park

Photos from Edina Band Boosters: The Medina Winterguard competed Saturday in Orchard Park.

Posted 28 January 2024 at 5:02 pm

Press Release, Medina Band Boosters

ORCHARD PARK – The 2024 winterguard competitive season began in late January, while tryouts and practices began in November.

Winterguard is a hybrid art form that combines elements of music, dance and military-like precision marching in a competitive arena into a total entertainment package. WG started about 30 years ago and involves the manipulation (spins, tosses, flips) of equipment (rifles, flags, sabers) while moving around the performance space.

Medina’s Varsity Guard consists of 10 students in grades 9-11. On Saturday they competed for the first time this season at Orchard Park where a total of 12 guards in different classes performed in competition.

Medina took 2nd place in the Scholastic A class with a score of 55.39 while Orchard Park earned 1st place with 61.99 and Lancaster in 3rd at 55.18.

Winners in the other classes were Corey Cadet in 1st place with 47.30; Orchard Park JV in Regional A with 57.36; Ventures in A1 with 58.76; Orchard Park in Scholastic A with 61.99;  Batavia in Independent A with 66.35; and Luminosa in Senior Class with 68.79.

Medina’s next competition is Saturday, Feb. 3rd in Batavia, and our home show is Saturday, March 9th.

Medina’s shows is entitled “Dancing Through the Decades,” a journey through Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.