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We want to thank everyone for all of your help with the events last week, and through this past fall marching season! This week is going to be a much lighter week for the bands than we’ve been having the past few weeks! The only real event for students is the annual Senior Dinner that I put on for the
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We would like to begin this week by saying thank you to the parents, teachers, alumni, community members, and Owl Football Team for their amazing support last week at the UIL State Marching Contest! The students had their best performance of the season and we are proud of them! Ultimately they finished the season 20th of the 204 3A Marching
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This week is a big week for The Spirit of OHS Marching Band as we return to the UIL State Marching Band Contest Wednesday! Please read this week’s information carefully if you have a student involved in the band. Spectator information is also included below. We hope that the students have a large group of fans on Wednesday at their
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Congratulations to The Spirit of OHS for earning their way to the UIL State Marching Band Contest yesterday! They started by competing with 31 bands to be 12th in Prelims, taking the last place that advanced to finals. The Spirit of OHS then successfully fought their way to earn 5th Place, and a State Berth in the Finals Round! Our
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Congratulations to The Spirit of OHS on earning their 14th Consecutive Superior Rating at the UIL Region Marching Contest on Saturday! This has earned them a trip to the UIL Area Marching Contest on Saturday in Beeville. Odem will perform at 4pm as a part of the contest that will feature 31 3A Bands! Students will need to be at
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Good morning, We are awaiting information from UIL on the schedule for Saturday’s Area Marching Contest in Beeville. I anticipate I’ll be given information by this evening and will send out this week’s schedule. We will be watching their performance and judges comments beginning at 5:30pm tomorrow in the Cafetorium. Tomorrow we will rehearse from 6:30pm-8:30pm, along with Wednesday 4:30pm-6pm,
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Welcome to a very busy couple weeks here for the Odem Bands! We have Homecoming Week events towards the end of this week – then our bigger event of UIL Region Marching Contest as our first step in our efforts to return to the UIL State Marching Band Contest. We hope to earn our chance to compete at the Area
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Congratulations to The Spirit of OHS on a great performance yesterday at the USBands Jourdanton Showcase! They earned 1st Place in Class 2 Open, as well as received every caption in their division! We now have two weeks to focus on the comments from the judges before UIL Region Marching Contest on the 15th. We have a tentative performance time
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We would like to begin this week by congratulating the students who are members of The Spirit of OHS Percussion sections for winning the Percussion Caption at this week’s Beeville Marching Festival! The band overall earned 4th Place out of the 20 bands, 2nd Place Drum Majors, and 3rd Place Guard. We will continue over the coming weeks to refine
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Welcome to the beginning of a very busy month for the Odem Bands! Before I get into the many upcoming events this month, I would like to first congratulate our 4 students who successfully earned spots in the All-Region Jazz Bands this weekend! Samarra Medina (Tenor Sax – 3rd Chair), Kalista Ocana (Trumpet – 2nd Chair), Jennifer Garcia (Trumpet –
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