✦ Wylie Colorguard Digest ✦

Wylie HS Pure Gold

Updated Wed, Oct 28, 2026 · 17:00 CT

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✦ Need to Know Now

  • Photo consent form: due back Thursday morning, Oct 29.Required for the State contest. Print it, parent signs, bring it to Mr. McDonald Thursday morning. It cannot be filled out online. Students 18 and over can sign their own.
  • State shirts: payment due Thursday 17:00.$25 each. Students receive one free. Orders closed Monday 15:00; payment link still not posted. Pickup Saturday Oct 31, band hall, 12:00 to 14:00.Order form
  • State bound, confirmed Oct 25.Leave Sunday morning · Perform Monday morning · Finals Tuesday · Excused Monday and Tuesday.
  • State trip itinerary is out.Sun: arrive WHS 08:00, depart 08:45, Fredericksburg rehearsal, Hampton Inn (11426 I-10, San Antonio) · Mon prelims 10:45 · Tue finals 14:00, back at WHS 22:30. Pack light, bags are searched; meds turn in, email Angie Hervey for the medication form.
  • Sectionals are OFF this week and next.Indoor audition dates have not been posted yet.
  • Rehearsals this week.Mon 08:15 · Tue 07:00 · Wed 08:15 · Thu 07:00 in the stadium · Fri 07:00 in the doghouse.
  • Friday pep rally wear.Grey show shirt, section shirt, or senior jersey.

✦ Major Dates

  • Nov 2-3UIL State Marching Contest, Alamodome, San Antonio. Confirmed advancing. Leave Sunday 08:45, prelims Monday 10:45, finals Tuesday 14:00 to 17:30, back at WHS Tuesday 22:30. Hotel: Hampton Inn, 11426 I-10, San Antonio.UIL state contest page
  • Nov 7-8BOA San Antonio trip. The band performs Saturday Nov 7 at the Alamodome, stays the night, and returns Sunday Nov 8.Event and tickets
  • Sat Nov 14Veterans Day Parade (tentative).
  • WinterWinter guard and indoor audition dates have not been posted yet.

✦ Coming Up

  • Fri Oct 30Football Game at Wichita Falls Legacy, Memorial Stadium. Game at 19:00, return to WHS about 01:00.
  • Sat Oct 31State shirt pickup, band hall, 12:00 to 14:00.
  • Sun Nov 1State send-off, line up in front of WHS along Antilley Road. Students arrive at WHS 08:00. Buses depart 08:45 per the official itinerary; the send-off post says 08:30. Clocks fall back at 02:00 that morning.
  • Nov 2-3UIL State Marching Contest, Alamodome, San Antonio. Prelims Monday 10:45, finals Tuesday 14:00, back at WHS Tuesday 22:30.
  • Fri Nov 6Home Football Game vs Abilene Cooper.
  • Nov 7-8BOA San Antonio trip, Alamodome. Performs Saturday, returns Sunday.

✦ Volunteers & Sign-Ups

  • Thu Oct 29Bake sale fundraiser, East Junior High cafeteria, 17:30 to 19:30. Donate homemade baked goods or help run it.Sign up
  • BOA roomsReserve rooms for the San Antonio trip (Nov 7-8).Room sign-up
  • ChaperonesNo chaperone asks posted right now. New asks will show up here.

✦ Standing Info

  • BOA tripSat Nov 7 to Sun Nov 8. Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn, 5730 Rim Pass.Directions
  • AbsencesAny absence needs the Band Absence Form, pinned in the guard group on BAND.Open in BAND
  • RehearsalsPlans live in the pinned post in the main band group on BAND.Open in BAND