Meet the Webmaster

I have been teaching colorguard since I started colorguard. Yes, I even started teaching before I even knew what I was doing. That date was 1979. (Scary, huh?) I started spinning rifle with my neighborhood friend when I was in the 10th grade. I still remember the first time I saw a rifle spinning. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

Because I lived in a small southern town, I got a lot of teasing for being the only guy to do guard, but that wasn't going to stop me. I practiced so much everyday that my rifle became my best friend. Eventually, when I went to college, I joined the colorguard, eventually to teach it the next year. During my undergraduate years at East Carolina University, I also taught Rocky Mount Senior High school two of the years that they won the now BOA national championship.
When I got my graduate degree in fine arts from East Carolina, I moved to Tallahassee and then graduated from Florida State University with a Masters degree in Fine Arts.

Next I joined a regional ballet company for 3 years and toured internationally. I also did choreography for them for Main Stage Productions.

Eventually, I decided to go back into full time teaching of colorguard. Since then, my accomplishments have been:

• Guard director of a Schoolastic A WGI finalist colorguard
• Being on staff for a WGI World Class finalist colorguard
• Choreographed for an WGI Independent Open Silver Medalist
• Choreographed for Boston Crusaders the first year that they were in DCI finals
• Received a Cosmotologist License