PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary Ladd Public Information Coordinator Ponca City Public Schools 580-352-4188 [email protected] #TeamPCPS #WildcatWay PCPS Big Blue Band Reports Great Results from Red Carpet Honor Band Auditions The Ponca City Senior High School Big Blue Band members participated in the Red Carpet Honor Band Auditions held on Saturday, November 16 in Chisholm, Oklahoma. The Senior High School Honor Band consists of students in grades 10th through 12th grade. The 9th grade students participated in the Junior High Honor Bands, which is made up of students in grades 7th through 9th. High schools that participated included: Alva, Blackwell, Cashion, Chisholm, Cimarron, Covington-Douglas, Drummond, Enid, Fairview, Fargo-Gage, Garber, Kingfisher, Kremlin-Hillsdale, Laverne, Medford, Mooreland, Newkirk, Okeene, Oklahoma Bible Academy, Perry, Pioneer-Pleasant Vale, Ponca City, Pond Creek-Hunter, Ringwood, Seiling, Texhoma, Timberlake, Tonkawa, Waukomis, Waynoka, and Woodward. There were two Junior High Honor Bands selected, an “A” Band and a “B” Band. This is made up of students in grades 7th through 9th grade. Ponca City 9th grade students competed in the junior high area. The 17- 9th graders who earned their positions is the largest number of freshmen Ponca City has ever had make one of the two bands. Schools represented in the junior high tryouts included: Alva, Blackwell, Cashion, Chisholm, Cimarron, Covington-Douglas, Emerson (Enid), Enid, Fairview, Garber, Hennessey, Kingfisher, Kremlin-Hillsdale, Laverne, Longfellow (Enid), Medford, Mooreland, Newkirk, Okarche, Okeene, Oklahoma Bible Academy, Perry Pioneer-Pleasant Vale, Ponca City, Ponca City East, Ponca City West, Pond Creek-Hunter, Ringwood, Seiling, Texhoma, Tonkawa, Waller (Enid), Waukomis, Waynoka, and Woodward. Honor Band rehearsals for both high school and junior high will be held on Friday, January 24 and the morning of January 25 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma. The concert will be held in the afternoon on January 25 beginning at 1:30 p.m. The order for the concerts will be: Junior High “B” Band, Junior High “A” Band, and High School Band. High School Results 10-12 Britany Addair, 3rd chair flute LeAnne Dowler, 1st chair oboe Angela Pensoneau, 6th chair clarinet PONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | VISIT US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER OR ON OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.PCPS.US | NOVEMBER 18, 2019 Shayla Burris, 1st alternate bass clarinet Morgan Mays, 1st chair contra clarinet Eric Cunningham, 2nd alternate tenor saxophone Ryan Turnipseed, 2nd chair trumpet Marlie Brophy, 8th chair trumpet Luke McHenry, 3rd chair trombone Connor Shear, 4th chair trombone Daxton Scott, 6th chair trombone David Miller, 7th chair trombone Taran Thompson, 2nd alternate trombone Joneven Androes, 3rd chair euphonium Malik Owdetallah, 4th chair euphonium Breanna Rhea, 1st alternate euphonium Haydan Jones, 5th chair tuba Dominick Yandell, 2nd alternate tuba Andrew Rogers, 2nd chair snare drum Betsy Fields, 5th chair snare drum Cannon Johnson, 1st alternate snare drum Ethan Stobbe, 1st chair tympani Mark Hodgson, 1st chair mallets Jacob Petrie, 1st alternate mallets 9th Grade Students Selected Bethany Klein, flute, 1st chair A Band Brittany Navarro, flute, 2nd chair A Band Bailey Anson, flute, 10th chair A Band Erika Pizzuto, clarinet, 9th chair A Band Blake Dailey, tenor saxophone, 1st chair B Band Connor McQueen, tenor saxophone, 3rd chair B Band Asher Scantlin, trumpet, 9th chair A Band Amanie Owdetallah, trombone, 3rd chair A Band Joel Beck, trombone, 7th chair A Band Tynli Nickel, trombone, 1st chair B Band Kyler Bullington, trombone, 2nd chair B Band Jacob O’Neill, euphonium, 3rd chair B Band Noah Monroe, tuba, 1st chair A Band Tanner Estes, tuba, 5th chair A Band Aston Sang, tuba, 4th chair B Band Cason Wilson, tympani, 1st chair A Band Noah Colson, mallets, 1st chair A Band 8th Grade Students Selected Emmalee Shields, clarinet, 13th chair A Band Viktoriya Maier, clarinet, 19th chair A Band Connor Burgess, alto saxophone, 4th chair A Band Julian Estrada, alto saxophone, 5th chair A Band Kanye Triplett, trumpet, 7th chair B Band Fabian Gonzalez, snare drum, 3rd chair A Band 7th Grade Students Selected Jordan DeLeon, flute, 1st alternate Rachel Lawson, clarinet, 10th chair A Band Pierce Wagner, clarinet, 8th chair B Band Anderson Bivins, tympani, 1st chair B Band Sawyer Scanlin, mallets, 1st chair A Band Blevin Summers, mallets, 1st alternate PONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | VISIT US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER OR ON OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.PCPS.US | NOVEMBER 18, 2019 .