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Winter Guard Faith Evans

Competitions for Winter Guard take place every Saturday, but the finals competition takes place tomorrow.

The winter guard has faced many trials this season

“The difficulty of finals this year is different than what it was last year by a lot. We have had a lot of challenges thrown at us and a lot of tricks as well, but it was really fun, so it’s okay,” junior Lexi Cunningham said. “The hardest part of the season is basically just to prove to other guards and judges that we aren’t a small, untalented guard. We are a very great guard, and we take on big challenges.”

Guard continues to improve throughout the years.

“We have gotten so much better, and the girls are so much more confident than they were last year,” senior Cami Cunningham said. “Hopefully when I leave, I can continue to see them grow and be even better than they are now.”

Practicing for the finals is the central for the guard right now.

“We are doing a lot of run-throughs to build our stamina up,” sophomore Kristin Sawin said. “We basically take big chunks of the show, and we run them over and over again. We’ll say, ‘If you do this three times without any drops, then you can get water.”

Big competitions keep the guard on their feet.

“We just had WGI, and there’s two different competitions that we typically attend. WGI is only a weekend, though,” Sawin said. “It’s a two-day competition. It was difficult. Personally, we had really good run-throughs for us. We only had about one drop on our Sunday show. WGI is a midwest competition and not just Indiana. We were competing against groups from Michigan and New York. They come from everywhere, and they judge a lot harder. We obviously weren’t placed as high because there were a lot more groups and the judging is harder.”

This year’s show for finals tells a story of upcoming from the past to now.

“Our show this year is basically how guard used to be versus how guard is now,” Lexi said. “Guard used to be very militaristic. Only slams and ports and strong poses like that, but now we have evolved into dancing and doing turns, jumps, under tosses, other skills and such like the dancing with the music and actually tell a story. The moral of the show is that you basically have to go back to your roots, and you have to know where things came from and how they started.”

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