Competitions

HOW DO I GET TO THE COMPETITION? - Many parents car pool with each other and take turns driving week to week. For our performance time and location directions, please visit the Cavalcade of Bands site on our LINKS PAGE or select it from the CALENDAR PAGE. Hope to see you there EVERY WEEK!

AT THE COMPETITION - Bring blankets to sit on as the bleachers can be cold. The host band usually offers "candy-grams" which cost $1.00 and you can send your child a good luck message or anything that let's them know you care accompanied by a candy treat. Some offer flower-grams also.

SPECTATOR ETIQUETTE - When attending competitions, try to sit with other Ryan band parents, wear your show shirt or jackets and yell, cheer and clap at appropriate times during their show. Be loud. The Archbishop Ryan Marching Band is proud to have an outstanding support audience. Do not enter or exit the stands during any band's performance. Do not talk during any show (you may be sitting next to another parent whose child is performing). Applaud every band after their performance. Remember, the students in the other bands have worked just as hard as our own students and they deserve our respect and applause too. Regardless of how you may feel about the judge's decision at the awards, bite your tongue! Every parent and every band member performing feels their band should be number one. Marching band members in every band are participating in an activity that is teaching them teamwork, respect and pride in what they do. There are no losers in this activity. Everyone is a first-string starter!

Annual Memorial Scholarship

CATHY DiFRANCESCO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

In 2003, the Cathy DiFrancesco Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to honor her life and memory as a devoted, energetic and supportive band parent to the Archbishop Ryan High School Marching Band. Founded by the Marching Band Parent's Association, it will provide an annual scholarship Award to a graduating senior Marching Band member who exhibits the qualities and characteristics that made Cathy such an exceptional person. The recipient of this Award is chosen by the Marching Band Director and will be announced at the annual Music Banquet.

Award Recipients

2006 - Gerard Conicelli

2007 - Matthew Brandt

2008 - Theodore and Andrew Turzanski

2009 - Mary Ziegler

Congratulations!