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, sabres, and more to create unique, energetic, expressive performances. 

 

Winter Guard can be compared to sports like dance, 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, independent teams, senior teams, and more.