page_title: Westminster Senior High School
section_title: Marching band
hierarchical_section_title: Westminster Senior High School / Marching band
caption_attribution_description: English: Westminster Senior High School marching band
context_page_description: Westminster Senior High School is a high school located in Westminster, Maryland, United States.
  The school, which is a part of the Carroll County Public School System, has an enrollment of approximately 1,680 students in 2013. The student body makeup is 50% male and 50% female, and the total minority enrollment is about 9%. There are about 100 full-time teachers on staff. The mascot is the Owl and its colors are blue and white.
  WHS is the largest and the oldest high school in the Carroll County Public School System and is one of the largest high schools in the state of Maryland. It also houses the County BEST Program.
context_section_description: The Westminster High School Owls Marching Band is the first band from Maryland to participate in a Bands of America competition, including the Grand National Championships held in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana. It won the 2002 Atlantic Coast Championships, a Tournament of Bands-sanctioned competition, and won a Bands of America Regional championship in 2003 becoming the first and only band in Maryland to become BOA Regional Champions. It participated in the Bands of America Grand National Championship in 2004 and 2005, placing 21st and 37th, respectively. In 2008, the WHS Marching Band placed 2nd overall at the Towson BOA Regional as well as winning best music, and also placed 4th overall at the BOA Super Regional at Atlanta's Georgia Dome. In the 2009 season, Westminster placed 1st overall at the Towson BOA Regional, winning general effect and best music. The band placed 4th overall at the BOA Regional Championships in West Chester, PA, and also competed in the USSBA Maryland and Delaware State Championships at Towson, MD in Unitas Stadium taking all captions and winning first place in their group and overall. On October 2, 2010, the band competed in the USSBA Marine Corps Invitational at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They placed first overall, taking all captions and receiving the prestigious Esprit de Corps Award, which is given to the band best exemplifying the characteristics of pride, professionalism and patriotism. Later in the 2010 season the band once again placed first overall at the Bands of America Regional Championship in Towson, MD. The Marching Band had the honor to be the only band chosen to represent the State of Maryland at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade and USS Arizona Memorial Concert Series in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 2013. They were also selected to participate in a Field Show competition in November 2014 in Washington D.C. They scored Second overall out of four bands and took the caption award for best woodwind section. In the 2015 season, the band placed 10th overall in the 2015 Newark BOA Regional, and received second place in class III Open in the USBands Open National Championship at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, winning Best Overall Effect and Best Visual.
  Current Directors:.
  
  Brian Frazier.
  Past Directors:.
   
  Brian Drake, Mark Lortz, Brian Thompson (assistant director), Jennifer Bodrie Jones.
caption: The Westminster High School Marching Band
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