A remarkable, memorable, emotional season that I don’t think anyone (not event those in these photos) could have predicted. Being able to look back on the Southington HS and St. Ann’s 2026 seasons will be a gift for the rest of my life :)
Four years ago when my staff and I restarted the winter guard program at Southington, I had made the joke “year one we can stay local, year two let’s go to 1 regional, year three let’s do 2 regionals, year four we can do 2 regionals and Dayton.” Now that we’re on the other side of our fourth year, I look back at that with so much pride for that ambitious version of myself. There’s so much to process— our first trip to Dayton was absolutely spectacular, from their first WGI oranges to winning a gold medal in Scholastic A. This truly feels like a fairytale, and I can’t thank those that believed in me, and this young program, enough.
