Southeastern Color Guard Circuit Championship coming to Bowling Green
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Southeastern Color Guard Circuit Championship is making its way to Diddle Arena soon, with many different schools from around Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama taking part.
But what exactly is the SCGC? President Chaz Bledsoe explains:
“It’s made up of three divisions: our color guard division, our percussion division, and our winds division. All of it really is kind of middle school, high school, early college age. Really, you can think of it as what you would see during the fall like for a high school marching band, you could see it like what you see on the football field, but broken up into the three different divisions taking place on a basketball court instead.”
Those three divisions are different in their own ways, starting with the color guard.
“You’re gonna see a lot of dancing, flag work. You’ll also see sabers and rifles, kind of the main equipment that’s used there for the percussion division. That’s where the drums come into play, as well as the front ensemble is what it’s known as, or the keyboards for that… and then winds is a relatively new division within the activity… and it’s just what you would normally see from a marching band in a way. But that’s where you’re going to see your saxophones, your tubas, your clarinets, things like that,” Bledsoe says.
This competition brings in 107 groups, including some local schools like Allen County-Scottsville, Barren County, Butler County, Edmonson County, Hart County, Caverna, South Warren and Warren East. One thing has stayed consistent over the last few years, however: the location. Bledsoe says that’s for two main reasons:
“One, it’s definitely the community, right. Two, it would definitely be the campus. It’s a great location for our membership… and then just the venue itself, a lot of what they do is in high schools or a high school setting, and this is probably… or this is the biggest setting that they can compete in throughout the season. But really SCGC is… our home base technically is Bowling Green, Kentucky. So we want to be able to come back here to WKU,” he says.
The color guard competition takes place on Saturday from 9AM to 9PM and Sunday from 10AM to 4PM, while the percussion and winds competition is April 4th from 9AM to 4PM.
All events take place at Diddle Arena on Western Kentucky University’s campus.
