Vanguard wins WGI World Championships
The drum corps activity was well represented at the WGI World Championships in Dayton, Ohio this past weekend as the Santa Clara Vanguard Winter Guard completed an undefeated season to win its first World Championship title. The Vanguard won the Independent World division with a score of 97.100, besting its fellow California competitor Corona Winter Guard by more than a point.
This is the fourth year Santa Clara Vanguard has fielded a winter guard under its current incarnation, and the unit has been an Independent World finalist all four years. Except for two members, everyone in the ensemble has previously been a member of the Vanguard program, either as a color guard member or in the drum corps. A third of this year's winter guard members will be marching as members of the 2009 drum corps.
There was also European success at the WGI Championships. The winter guard of Beatrix from Hilversum reached 10th place in the Independent Open Class Finals. It was the first time that a European guard made the Open Class Finals.
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