After marching band season ends, it's Winter Guard season! Winter Guard is competitive indoor color guard — a "performing-arts sport" — that combines movement, staging, and equipment to bring music to life. Teams use recorded music and mix dance/choreography and creative props with flags, rifles, sabers, and more to create unique, energetic, expressive performances. 

 

Winter Guard can be compared to sports like rhythmic gymnastics or artistic swimming — athletic and artistic — where teams strive for synchronicity and precision in their technique while putting on crowd-pleasing performances. Winter Guards can be found across the country in middle schools, high schools, at the collegiate level, and beyond.