Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a year of firsts for the Penn State Blue Band, a student organization that traces its roots to 1899 — and that continued ...

As a high school student, Amanda Thomas declared to Twitter that she would become the Hawkeye Marching Band’s first-ever female drum major. Although that history was made before she came to the ...

Candace Hawthorne, a senior from Dallas, is among three drum majors in the school’s World Famed Tiger Marching Band, the university said in a release. Hawthorne is the first female drum major since ...

Candace Hawthorne, who once lacked the gusto to try out to be a drum major, is calling the shots at halftime as the first female drum major for Grambling State since 1952. Hawthorne, a senior majoring ...

Of all the leaders on the field during LSU games, Catherine Mansfield is probably the least banged up at this point in the season. “No injuries yet,” she reports. “Sometimes a little bit of a sore ...

Marissa Presley, Mariah Presley and Halo Nunn are all drum majors in the school’s marching band. This is their first year serving as drum majors, and it’s also the first time that all three of the ...

GRAMBLING, La. (KSLA) - Grambling State University has announced its drum majors for the World Famed Tiger Marching Band, and one of them is only the second woman to fill the role in the last 70 years ...

NOTRE DAME. Ind. — A young woman from Richfield, Minnesota will make history on the football field this fall — not as an athlete, but as a musician. "It will be the first time all three drum majors ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The University of Southern California marching band has selected its first-ever female drum major. India Anderson is the first female drum major in the history of the program.

At Norfolk State University, those who become drum majors for the Spartan “Legion” Marching Band might be considered royalty on campus. Founded in 1975, the Legion has become one of the country’s ...