The Tupelo band went to BOA on Oct 5, 2024 and won 1st place in their overall division. 

Soralya Hughes stated, “First off let me go ahead and say this we got first place but i’m not saying that we couldn’t have done better because this was not our best run at all we had a lot of mishappens so i feel like we could’ve did a little bit better.”

 In addition to Soralya we had another student who shared how he felt about BOA and the work the band had to put in to make it into the placement that they did. Jevan Foster stated, “I think one big challenge is like you know how we put drill on like two days before BOA came? I think we should have got a little bit more time instead of it being rushed and stuff we did good tho.” 

Another student addressed how she felt about BOA and the complications that had happened. Madellon White stated, “We had a little bit of a tear in our music and I feel like we could’ve done that better but all in all I’m not mad at it.”

Apart from all of the difficulties that the band had faced while reaching first place some students addressed their favorite parts about competition days. Kazavia Jenkins stated, “My favorite part about band competitions is when we win!”