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Northern California Band Association
2009-2010 Winter Color Guard Classifications

Note: These are only preliminary classification as the season has not totally started yet. As units are bumped up or down, these classifications will change. Please if you have any information that may be missing or if there are any corrections that need to be made, PM the information to me! Also note, if your school is not on this list, it is because your school has probably not shown up in the most recent line-ups. Give it time, your school will show up in the classification listing.

Winter Classifications:

• MSN: Middle School "Novice"
  MSA: Middle School "Advanced"
  MSS: Middle School "Scholastic"
  HSNB: High School "Novice B"
  HSNA: High School "Novice A"
  HSA: High School "Advanced"
  HSI: High School "Intermediate"
  HSS: High School "Scholastic"
  HSO: High School "Open"

[MSN]
Franklin
Ingrid B. Lacy
McCaffrey

• Performing their show entitled "Fortune Cookie"

Vallejo "B"

• Performing their show entitled "Lilo and Stitch"

[MSA]
Grange
Hart

• Performing their show entitled "Jai Ho"

Park

• Performing their show entitled "Twilight Saga"

Solano
Vallejo "A"

• Performing their show entitled "Our Deepest Fear"

[MSS]
Benicia
Sullivan

[HSNB]
American
Freedom

• Performing their show entitled "On the Sunny Side of the Street"

[HSNA]
Bella Vista

• Performing their show entitled "Beautiful Nightmare"

Deer Valley
John F. Kennedy
Lincoln

• Performing their show entitled "Hairspray"

Livermore
McClatchy "B"

• Performing their show entitled "Flights of Fancy"

Mission San Jose
Nevada Union
Paradise
Petaluma
Rancho Cotate

• Performing their show entitled "The Poet and the Pendulum"

Tokay
West Campus
Whitney

• Performing their show entitled "I Have a Dream"

[HSI]
Antioch
Atwater

• Performing their show entitled "Have You Ever Wondered?"

Concord

• Performing their show entitled "Wonderland"

Elk Grove

• Performing their show entitled "If I Ain't Got You"

Fremont "B"

• Performing their show entitled "Black and Gold"

Galt

• Performing their show entitled "The Spirit Within"

John Swett
Lodi
Mission San Jose


[HSA]
Cordova
Del Oro

• Performing their show entitled "Freak Show"

Franklin
Laguna Creek
Rodriguez "B"
Vintage

[HSS]
Fremont "A"

• Performing their show entitled "Storm of the Tribes"

McClatchy "A"

• Performing their show entitled "A Disquiet Within the Soul"

Rodriguez "A"
Vanden

[HSO]
Armijo

• Performing their show entitled "Marie Antoinette"

Benicia
Foothill-Pleasanton

• Performing their show entitled "Words for a Cloudy Day"

Jesse Bethel

• Performing their show entitled "Atlantis"

Vallejo

• Performing their show entitled "The Dark Hour Circus"

Friendly edit.

The line up of classifications should be

Novice B
Novice A
Intermediate
Advanced
Scholastic
Open

Looks like you have Intermediate and Advanced switched.

Thanks for posting this.

OK so NCBA still hasnt updated the website regarding guard classification since they split Novice (3 years now?)....... for Novice B, whats the minimum time for use of standard equipment?

Sorry, i only know what it is for upper divisions. But it always says the standard times on the sheet you get from Rowland (the one with penalties etc.). If you have an old one from past shows you can get your hands on, take a look.

oreocookis wrote:OK so NCBA still hasnt updated the website regarding guard classification since they split Novice (3 years now?)....... for Novice B, whats the minimum time for use of standard equipment?

Got this from the Penalty Sheet sent to us from Rowland for our show:

Show Length: Novice A & B 2 ½ min – Max 7 ½ min
Standard Equipment Performance Time: One member of Novice A & B must perform with standard equipment of a minimum of 1 ½ minutes

Thanks for the clarification on the Novice time limits, Peaches. Helps out a lot!

Yes, thank you very much!

I teach at Tokay Hs of Lodi and we registered for Novice A.

We didn't even know there was different time limits for the lower groups, so we wrote a 4:10 show.

Same here. Our show is just over 4 minutes with our Novice guard. Both shows are being completed this week! FINALLY!

Hey what guard do you teach??? =)

JenKozy wrote:Same here. Our show is just over 4 minutes with our Novice guard. Both shows are being completed this week! FINALLY!

Galt HS is in Intermediate!

Our show is about 6 minutes, but we might cut it shorter... not sure yet only 2 more rehearsals until San Mateo.

oreocookis wrote:Our show is about 6 minutes, but we might cut it shorter... not sure yet only 2 more rehearsals until San Mateo.

Wow I didn't realize the new times weren't posted. Peaches did an excellent job informing us...you know, maybe look-up the score sheets online and see if that will answer any other questions you have.

I instruct McClatchy High School.

*BUMP* Updated! Keep 'em coming...