What is Colorguard?  

Color guard is spending 15 to 20 hours a week marching up and down a 50 by 70 foot area spinning a 3 1/2 pound rifle or a 5 1/2 foot flag. It's your free time to strive for perfection and hearing; "Run Run Run, Set it Up, Start from 45, letter B, the fast part after the drop spins and toss from there!" over and over. It is spending countless hours in a cold, damp band room basement before games and eating Wendy's and McDonald's every Saturday. Sometimes you march with blisters on your feet, splints on your fingers, when you're sick or when every muscle in your body aches. It means being willing to try again even though you have just suffered a defeat, tears are streaming down your face and your heart is breaking.

But color guard is much more than work. It is closeness between young people that cannot be described. It is doing your best and knowing that you have your very own group of "fans" who you will always encourage and support you, Whether you win or lose.

Colorguard is Science:
It is exact, specific and it demands precise execution. A designer's drill is a chart; a graph which indicates x and y coordinates for constantly changing geometric shapes and forms in both time and space. Our equipmant and props are always pushing the laws of pysics with force and speed, action and reaction. All of this with an incredible control of time.

Colorguard is a Physical Sport:
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, feet and legs; in addition to extraordinary control of the back. stomach, and torso; all of which are called to respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the sights the eyes see. Colorguard is centered around endurance, ability, strength, and balance.

We are a team which, just like any other team, has to learn at the beginning of the season to work together, play together, and perform together.  Like other sections, everything we do must be coordinated precisely, or we all look off.  By the end of the season, not only can we execute any toss together, catch on any count together, and step off and keep our forms together, but we can finish each other's sentences, know about everyone else's relationship problems, and have seen everyone on the guard cry at some point in the season.  We are a close knit group of extraordinarily talented color guard divas - we can't perform our best any other way.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

taken, with the exception of the last paragraph, from this page