After sweeping Gregory-Portland, this South Texas powerhouse has its sights on state glory<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The beat never really stops at Alice High School and lately, it\u2019s been hitting all the right notes.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, the Alice Coyote Marching Band swept the Gregory-Portland Tournament of Bands, taking home three first-place trophies for Colorguard, Drum Majors, and overall 5A division.<\/p>\n
Director of Bands Emerico Perez says the students are continuing a proud legacy of excellence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make sure we uphold all that excellence before us \u00a0and do it today at a very high level,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n
Inside the Alice band hall, the walls are covered in trophies from years past \u00a0a glittering reminder that winning is part of the school\u2019s DNA. But the Coyotes aren\u2019t done collecting hardware just yet.<\/p>\n
Daily rehearsals fine-tune every note, every step, and every toss of a flag.<\/p>\n
Colorguard member Lena Garza said confidence is key to keeping their momentum.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I am confident in our Colorguard abilities,\u201d Garza said. \u201cThey\u2019re very good. As long as they keep going the way they are, they\u2019ll be great.\u201d<\/p>\n
And leading the charge from the podium the drum majors, keeping tempo, tone, and team spirit in perfect time.<\/p>\n
Drum Major Emilia Valdez said her inspiration came from watching her older peers command the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just looked like born leaders,\u201d Valdez said. \u201cWhen I came in as a freshman, I saw that and wanted to be like them. I tried out, and I got that position.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, with the UIL competition around the corner, the Coyotes are marching in with momentum and the kind of pride that makes Alice proud.<\/p>\n
From the walls of the band hall to the roar of the football stands, one thing is clear, in Alice, success isn\u2019t just a goal. It\u2019s tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sweeping Gregory-Portland, this South Texas powerhouse has its sights on state glory CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}