Championship Info

Hello there!

WGAZ State Championships will soon be here and we wanted to share some information.

We can all agree Grand Canyon University Arena is a wonderful venue to host Championships, however, we had some challenges this year. The first was the venue wasn't available for the 1st of April only the 31st of March and 2nd of April. The second challenge is, there is no warmup location for the percussion groups as GCU has built student housing up around the campus and they rightfully have noise ordinances in place for their students, and drums all day would not comply. The guard warmup area last year was less than desirable, and though this year would have been better, we wanted to keep the circuit events closer together geographically.

We made the decision to host championships at two sites this year, Guard State Championship will be hosted at Highland High School and Percussion/Winds State Championship will be hosted at Desert Ridge High School. We feel that this will greatly benefit the individual needs of our members and their performers. Families will be able to go from one event to the other with the same wristband.

Note: There will be 3 guard awards ceremonies and 2 percussion awards ceremonies.

Our goal is to always provide a positive, exciting championship experience for the students and their families. We will continue working toward that goal as we finalize the event planning for both Guard and Percussion/Winds.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

Thank you and happy performing!

Championship Committee

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