Throughout Tiahna Selby’s eight seasons as a twirler for the Rutgers University Marching Scarlet Knights, she’s tossed her baton for the band at a New York Giants halftime show, at a rally with ...

At Cal football’s unexpected upset against Southern Methodist University on Saturday, the team may have had a secret weapon that carried the Bears to victory: the baton twirling halftime show. For the ...

After weeks of rehearsing on a make-believe red star, the Minuteman Marching Band of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is ready to take its spot in the star-studded Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ...

More than 400 members of the UMass marching band head to New York this week to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The University of Massachusetts Amherst band is one of 11 chosen for the ...

Linganore High School football fans may have seen something new on the field this year, and it had nothing to do with the pigskin. Instead, it was the first year for the school’s marching band to have ...

Bonham Middle School eighth-grader Laniqua Clay poses for a photo at school with Band Director Hector Izaguirre. Clay recently made the varsity twirling squad at Permian High School. She plays ...

At the next table, a young woman’s dreams were on fire. As I chowed down on chicken wings at Outlanders Southern Chicken, my wife struck up a conversation with a mother and daughter she recognized ...

Under the lights of Kinnick Stadium, Carissa Wolfe spins, bends, and launches a baton into the air as she performs with the Hawkeye Marching band. She first picked up a baton at 4 years old, and she’s ...

UCLA’s marching band kept the crowd entertained through halftime, with Olivia Pacheco’s baton twirling performance eliciting cheers and applause. “I’ve wanted to be the UCLA twirler since I was ...

The two baton twirlers on the field during halftime are hardcore about their sport. “I’ve pretty much broken every finger that I have,” said Ashley Bell, a fifth-year “feature twirler” and a graduate ...

In 1954, Shirlee Bertolini — already a twirling champion — travelled by train from Detroit, Mich. to Tucson, Ariz. The band director at the time, Jack Lee, had plans for the Pride of Arizona and ...