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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOn Nov. 9, the pride of the Pueblo marching band\nplaced in the Top 25 in the State; that\u2019s two consecutive years for this\nranking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
State championships this year took place at Buckeye\nUnion High School in Buckeye, Ariz. Last year, our marching Warriors placed 21st<\/sup>\nout of 22, while this year students pushed hard and made it happen again; this\ntime, however, they placed 23rd<\/sup> out of 30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis year we scored eight points higher than last\nyear,\u201d said Mr. Jesus Jacquez, Pueblo\u2019s band director and teacher. \u201cIt [placing\n23rd<\/sup>] may not seem like it, but it\u2019s a way better rating [than last\nyear’s placing].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The score improvement shown by those eight points in\njust one year is a big step towards the success and rebuilding of our school’s\nmusic and band programs, according to Jacquez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our band placed higher than 25th<\/sup> in sub-categories\nincluding general effect music\/visual, music individual\/ensemble, and visual\nindividual\/ensemble, even surpassing Sahuaro High School, whose band has\nhistorically ranked higher in previous competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacquez said, \u201cBeating Sahuaro in the sub-categories\nfelt pretty good. I didn\u2019t think we would beat them in some of the categories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The band program at Pueblo has grown tremendously over\nthe past few years thanks to the commitment from Jacquez and his students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior Polet Licudine, a drum major, said, \u201cThe band\nhas really improved because everybody knows what they are doing this year. Last\nyear, students didn\u2019t have this inspiration and organization. Mr. Jacquez has\nreally made us a better program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another senior, Luciana Velarde, the band\u2019s trumpet\nsoloist, said, \u201cThe band program has grown immensely, and within a few months\nof this school year and gained more recognition. Mr. Jacquez believes very\ndeeply in us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Encina Herrera On Nov. 9, the pride of the Pueblo marching band placed in the Top 25 in the State; that\u2019s two consecutive years for this ranking! State championships this year took place at Buckeye Union High School in Buckeye, Ariz. Last year, our marching Warriors placed 21st out of 22, while this year … Continue reading Marching Band Finds Its Cadence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,340,142],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-QP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}