Winter Guard season has officially begun which means that the guard girls have released their theme that has been kept a secret for the past few weeks.

“The theme is narcolepsy and it’s about sleeping and dreams within dreams,” junior Emily Strassner said.
      This season’s theme is not what the audience will expect coming from a Winter Guard competition.

“You see a lot of popular songs usually like Taylor Swift and one time there was a ‘Poker Face’ theme. They’re expecting you to be so literal in your theme instead of taking a different interpretation. Like with Amelia, our last Winter Guard show, we were so straight on. We took it with the airplanes and the bomber hats and the bomber jacket. This one takes you into a whole different way into the theme. You develop your own idea of what it’s telling you,” junior Jacee Wood said.

Although their routine is about dreams, it won’t put the audience to sleep.
      “It’s really pretty and it’s kind of different and off the wall in terms of music. There is a slower section then all of a sudden there’s a big loud noise coming out of nowhere. It’s like you listen to it then you kind of jump,” sophomore Amy Jernigan said.

The guard girls have been hard at work for the past seven weeks, preparing their new routine for their first competition on the twenty-first of January.

      “The first competition matters but it doesn’t really matter because in order to qualify for championships, you have to be in one competition before a certain date. So even Pride, which is the guard at MSU, which is ranked top first in the state, won’t even have their show done and they probably won’t even be in costume. It’s just to get your show out there,” senior Alli Smith said.

      Although their first competition might not truly matter, it was a success, getting second out of eight schools in Scholastic B.

      “”We got second place and missed first by an eighth of a point. I’m completely exhausted, but it’s so worth being out there with my team,” Smith said.