From the start of my four year commitment to football and marching band I saw leadership all around me. My first summer of football my freshman year the seniors were prime examples of leadership. They were right there to correct form on our lifts, blocks, and set the overall example of what it meant to be a Mead football player. Later that summer I threw in marching band camp to my agenda. The drum major, my sister, lead the band with kept the entire band in order, and worked with us until our sets were flawless. All the while the section leaders worked on the finer details within their section. As freshman year came and went, so did the leaders that filled huge spots in the football and band programs that I was apart of. When the football
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I now had the title of section leader in the band, and was also an upperclassmen of the football team. It wasn’t exactly as easy as it seemed from those of the past. The sophomores thought they knew everything just because they had been there one year before, and the freshman thought they were hot shit for making it through middle school. It was painful to witness the underclassmen of football only squat halfway down, or the underclassmen of band march out of time, and have your advice go in one ear and right out the other. I decided that I needed some type of legitimacy as a leader. I needed to give the underclassman a reason they should follow me. The following week we would begin to max out on our various lifts, and at the same time we would begin to start playing our music at band camp. All that needed to be done was show how my 2 years in the programs compared to their one or no years in the programs. The underclassman began to show their frustration with not being able to squat more than 150lbs or the underclassmen of my trombone section not being able to play above a high D flat. After these minor trials the underclassman started to turn their attention towards me and some of the other juniors trying to guide them. The football players began to grow physically and the band underclassmen came together for a better sound.
As I formed into the leader that I am now I enjoyed
I now had the title of section leader in the band, and was also an upperclassmen of the football team. It wasn’t exactly as easy as it seemed from those of the past. The sophomores thought they knew everything just because they had been there one year before, and the freshman thought they were hot shit for making it through middle school. It was painful to witness the underclassmen of football only squat halfway down, or the underclassmen of band march out of time, and have your advice go in one ear and right out the other. I decided that I needed some type of legitimacy as a leader. I needed to give the underclassman a reason they should follow me. The following week we would begin to max out on our various lifts, and at the same time we would begin to start playing our music at band camp. All that needed to be done was show how my 2 years in the programs compared to their one or no years in the programs. The underclassman began to show their frustration with not being able to squat more than 150lbs or the underclassmen of my trombone section not being able to play above a high D flat. After these minor trials the underclassman started to turn their attention towards me and some of the other juniors trying to guide them. The football players began to grow physically and the band underclassmen came together for a better sound.
As I formed into the leader that I am now I enjoyed