La Porte Winter Guard Semifinalist at 2017 World Championships

laporte-slicersThe La Porte High School Winter Color Guard competed at the Winter Guard International World Championships held in Dayton, OH, on April 6, 7, and 8. Prelims for the 47 Scholastic Open Class guards were held Thursday. The top 24 scoring guards advanced to the Friday semifinals and La Porte placed 19th in the prelims advancing them into the semifinals.

The top 15 scoring guards from semi-finals then advanced to the finals. La Porte placed 16th in the semifinals narrowly missing the finals by one placing and only 4 tenths of a point. In spite of missing the finals by such a small margin, this season was a huge improvement from missing the semifinals last year by one place. Complete semifinals results are as follows:

  1. Stockdale HS (Bakersfield, California): 96.500
  2. Lyman HS (Orlando, Florida): 95.900
  3. North Syracuse Central HS (Cicero-North Syracuse, New York): 94.000
  4. Mill Creek HS (Hoschton, Georgia): 93.700
  5. Smithfield-Selma HS (Smithfield, North Carolina): 93.000
  6. Fishers HS (Fishers, Indiana): 92.700
  7. Little Elm HS (Little Elm, Texas): 92.300
  8. Hendrickson HS (Pflugerville, Texas): 91.000
  9. Milford HS (OH) (Milford, Ohio): 90.500
  10. Marvin Ridge HS (Waxhaw, North Carolina): 90.400
  11. Washington HS (Washington, Missouri): 90.300
  12. El Dorado HS (Placentia, California): 88.800
  13. Eastlake HS (El Paso, Texas): 87.200
  14. Eden Prairie HS (Eden Prairie, Minnesota): 87.100
  15. Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (Canton, Michigan): 87.000
  16. La Porte HS (La Porte, Indiana): 86.600
  17. Bellevue West HS (Bellevue, Nebraska): 86.200
  18. Walled Lake Central HS (Walled Lake, Michigan): 86.000
  19. Diamond Bar HS (Diamond Bar, California): 84.500
  20. Bentonville HS (Bentonville, Arkansas): 83.400
  21. William R Boone HS (Orlando, Florida): 82.500
  22. Arvin HS (Arvin, California): 82.200
  23. Jenks HS Open (Jenks, Oklahoma): 82.000
  24. Ben Davis HS (Indianapolis, Indiana): 81.100