NHHS Drill Team & Color Guard

Up through the 2002 - 2003 school year, North Hollywood High School had a Drill Team and a Color Guard (Tall Flags). During the 1990's the number of Drill Teams we saw at competitions in Southern California steadily decreased. In the fall of 2000, we often went to field tournaments where only one school out of every five had a drill team. By 2002, we were often the only drill team at a field tournament and none of the local tournaments were giving awards to drill teams, only to combined "Auxiliary Units".

So in order to stay up with the style of competition in Southern California, beginning in fall 2003, we combined our Drill Team & Color Guard to form our Dance Team. The Dance Team uses dance moves and also works with tall flags, rifles, sabers, & other props. The table below shows what happened to our scores at the same competitions after we combined the groups:

The hard work of the members as well as the leadership of Dance Captain Jane Chung and Instructor Regina Hodges made this transition a successful one.

Beginning in the fall of 2005, the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (the group that judges almost all field tournaments in Southern California) discontinued Drill Team judging at field tournaments.