Claris Chan is a junior at Mission San Jose High School. She has been playing the violin/viola for 8 years and this will be her second year as a TBC officer. Besides music, Claris likes to play basketball. She has been playing since fifth grade and she plays on her school's varsity team. She also enjoys cooking/baking, listening to music, and spending time with friends. Some fun facts about Claris is that she can move her eyebrows independently and she is on a robotics team. She also loves food and boba and aspires to write a musical someday, even though she has no experience in composition. If Claris could be an animal, she would be a housecat because they are lazy and sleep all day. Housecats just lie around the house and wait to be fed, but they can also be very agile and active if they want to.

Lavanya Narendiran is a senior at Dublin High School. She has been playing the trombone since the 8th grade and has been a part of Tri-City Band Corps for a year now. Her hobbies include drawing, painting, crocheting, sewing, gardening, and window shopping for houses on Zillow. She also enjoys spending time with her budgie Zoey, as he is objectively the best bird ever. Morning runs are also something that she has surprisingly begun to enjoy. Fun facts about her include her ability to bend her left thumb back to her wrist, the fact that she and her sister share the exact same birthdate and time, and that she has lived in at least 5 cities so far. If she could be any animal, she would like to be a hyacinth macaw, as they are intelligent and great flyers. In addition, they are classified as a vulnerable species, so she would like to be one before they go extinct.

Priya Chanda is a senior at Irvington High School. Priya has played the trombone since fourth grade. She has been a part of Tri-City Band Corps for five years. Priya’s hobbies include cooking, creating digital art, and playing RPG games. One of her favorite game series is Metal Gear Solid because it combines a fun yet serious storyline with innovative game mechanics, memorable soundtracks, and quirky characters. A fun fact about Priya is that she strongly dislikes avocados. She thinks that adding guacamole to a taco is one of the worst ways to ruin what would otherwise be a perfectly fine food. This bias may stem from the time she unsuccessfully attempted to propagate an avocado seed in elementary school. If Priya could be an animal, she would be a domestic cat because she could spend her days lounging around. She would be pampered by her owner without having to do anything in return. Cats also have fairly long lifespans and are capable of living independently if abandoned.

Atulya Prasad is a junior at Mission San Jose High School. He plays the trombone and started in 4th grade. This is his second year in TBC. He enjoys spending time with friends playing basketball, making and acting in homemade movies, watching classic TV shows and movies, playing classic video games, hiking in the hidden gems of nature, and playing trombone. He has an interest in performing arts. He likes to take walks down memory lane and watch old TV shows and movies. Atulya has been to every state on the west coast and every city on the Northeast Corridor. If he could be an animal, he would be a shark because he wants to keep his place on the top of the food chain and experience the cool adaptations that sharks have. He also really wants a chance to star in a modern remake of Jaws.

Samantha Huang is a junior at Lynbrook High School. She plays flute and started in 7th grade. She has been part of Tri-City Band Corps for one year. She enjoys biking around her neighborhood and solving the daily New York Times Crossword in her free time. During the weekends, she likes to try different cooking recipes, although the final products have not always been successful. A fun fact about her is that she still has the Gettysburg Address memorized from an assignment in fifth grade. She also has a collection of rare sneakers and has many real size replicas of famous paintings. If she could be any animal, she would be a turtle because she prefers to live life at a slower pace. She especially wants to be a turtle because turtles are able to retract their body into their shells, which could be useful in certain situations.

Charleen Pan is a freshman at Mission San Jose High School. She has played Clarinet since 5th grade and has been a part of Band since 4th. This is her first year in TBC. Charleen is a bookworm and therefore enjoys reading and writing stories. She also likes listening to music (specifically K-pop), spending time with her friends, and exploring things that she finds interesting. Some fun facts about Charleen are that she read a 604-page book in one sitting, has written two books (for fun), is an ESTJ-T, despises hot summer days, finds comfort in organizing things, and is a very proud K-pop multistan. If she could be any animal, she would be a cat because a cat is her spirit animal and her patronus (a Harry Potter thing) as well. She also finds them to be cute and cuddly despite what they are portrayed as. Besides, if she's a cat, then that means she can't be allergic to herself, right?

Holden Lim is a sophomore at Mission San Jose High School. He plays cello and started in 4th grade. He has just joined Tri-City Band Corps this year. His hobbies are playing badminton, cello, and piano. In addition, he also likes to learn and try new and different activities as well as playing video games. Currently, he is learning about the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Holden is cross dominant meaning that he will use his right hand for certain tasks and the left hand for other tasks. An example of this is that he writes and eats with his left hand and plays instruments and sports with his right hand. An animal Holden would be is a peregrine falcon because peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on Earth reaching speeds of 186 mph. Not only is this bird the fastest animal on Earth, it has excellent eyesight due to it being a bird of prey.

Isaac Chan is a freshman at Mission San Jose High School. While Isaac has been playing percussion for 7 years, this is his first year as a member of Tri-City Band Corps. He has many hobbies. One of which is robotics, where he is part of a First Tech Challenge team. Isaac also enjoys speech and debate, doing Public Forum debate as well as Impromptu speech events. Finally, Isaac enjoys playing sports like basketball. Isaac has never broken, sprained, or twisted a bone before. He also has an older sister who is two years older than him. Finally, Isaac enjoys playing carnival games even though he knows the odds are against him. If he could be any animal, Isaac would be a dog. This is because when most dogs befriend a human, they are able to get free food and shelters and are also treated well. In comparison, many other animals have to survive in the wilderness without any help, and some get eaten or poached.

Sai Khushi Jerripothula is a junior at Irvington High School She has been playing the flute since she was in 5th grade. She has been a part of TBC for a year now. Her hobbies include Art, Watching K-Dramas, singing, spending time with her friends, baking, and learning languages (she is currently learning Korean and French as of now). She also likes to help tutor elementary band students. Recently, she has been meeting some high school friends online from other parts of the world. Before joining band and learning the flute, she used to attend singing classes. When she joined band in 4th grade, she first played the trumpet, but she later switched to flute. Not too long ago, she started doing digital painting/digital art in her free time. If she could be an animal, she would be a beaver since they are creative, practical and well-organized. For her, a beaver would be a good choice for their creativity, hard working personality, determination, and their habit of wanting to be occupied at certain times.

Aksha Srinath is a senior at American High School. She plays flute and started in 6th grade. She has been part of Tri-City Band Corps for about a year. Some of her hobbies include reading fantasy books and painting with watercolors. She also enjoys baking pie and listening to true crime podcasts. She likes biking and enjoys hiking with her family, as well as playing with her younger cousins. She also plays piano, and has done so for almost twelve years. Her favorite song is "Ancient Dreams in A Modern Land" by Marina. Another fun fact about her is that her favorite book is "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd, which she rereads at least once every six months. If she could be any animal, she would be a Great White Shark because they're apex predators, and she would be feared throughout all of the ocean. The Great White Shark is also one of her favorite animals.

Laurence Liao is a senior at American High School He started playing the alto saxophone since elementary school in 4th grade. He has been part of Tri-City Band Corps for over a year. When he has free time, he usually relaxes on the couch watching YouTube videos and surfing the Internet in general. When he is not feeling lazy, he reads or learns to code online. If friends are available, he and his friends would play video games together. He has read the whole Harry Potter book series in a week and he has watched the whole Harry Potter movie films in a day (on the road in the car). Even during quarantine, he finds himself unable to sleep for more than eight hours a night, causing him to feel fatigued sometimes. If he could be an animal he would be a giraffe because his height is quite like one. Like a giraffe, he can access things that are in higher places that some people might not be able to. He also thinks that giraffes are fascinating in general.

Aaroh Dixit is a sophomore at American High School. Aaroh has played the flute since 4th grade. He also plays the piccolo ever since 8th grade. He has been part of Tri-City Band Corps for a year. Aaroh likes to go swimming especially in natural bodies of water. He is also a fan of biking, his favorite being to go mountain biking. Aaroh also likes to play basketball. He plays on a team. He also loves hiking, especially places where there are not many people around. Some fun facts about Aaroh is that he loves watching all kinds of sports. He is a huge supporter of the Golden State Warriors. His favorite basketball player is Stephen Curry. He is also a big supporter of the San Francisco 49ers. If Aaroh could be any animal, he would be a lion. Lions are fierce but also gentle. Aaroh feels that this really portrays him. They are very misunderstood, and he likes that about them. If you really get to know a lion they can be very kind and caring.

Ethan Nguyen is a freshman at American High School. He has been playing the clarinet for two years since 7th grade. He joined TBC one year ago. Some of Ethan's hobbies are playing the piano, the clarinet, reading, and also playing video games. He has been playing the piano for 6 years, and also enjoys playing Minecraft. He used to swim, but he doesn't anymore. Swimming was annoying to him as if it was homework. During his middle school years, he started enjoying math more. As such, he joined his middle school math team in 8th grade. Also, he doesn't really have a favorite animal. But if he had to choose, he would probably be a type of bird. Like a lot of people, they wish they could fly unaided. That is the only reason he chose the bird. Flight would make traveling more convenient, and interesting.

Prithish Chandna is an incoming freshman at Irvington High School. His instrument is the alto saxophone, and he started playing in 5th grade. This will be his first year as a TBC officer. Prithish enjoys learning about algebra, geometry, history, and anatomy & physiology in his free time. He hopes to become a physician one day. When he's bored, he either reads a book, or watches YouTube or anime. Prithish came to the United States when he was two and a half years old. Since then, he's moved around the country, year after year, from New Hampshire to California. He's been in Fremont for 3 years, which is the longest he's ever been in one place. If he could choose to be any animal, he would become a cheetah. Prithish has always had a soft spot for cats and the cheetah has been his long time favorite. Everything from the black stripes "dripping" from the eyes to the agile and cautious nature.

Nathan Jiang is going to be a freshman at Mission San Jose High School. He plays the viola and started in 5th grade. He has been a part of TBC for 1 month. His leisure hobbies include chess, since it is strategic and exercises the mind, and playing video games. His sports hobbies include swimming, which he has been doing since 2011, and skiing, because he enjoys the sensation of going downhill. A fun fact about Nathan is that he has been to 3 continents. A memorable experience that he had was being close to a waterspout (a tornado that forms over a body of water) while being on a boat in Mexico. Another fact about him is that he loves Asian cuisine (especially Japanese) and steak. Basically loves to eat. If Nathan could be any animal, he would be a bird. The reason is because he could travel to wherever he wants to easily, which would allow a lot of freedom. He thinks that the ability to fly with your own body is something that people should be able to experience.

Rohan Iyer is a sophomore at Amercan High School. He plays percussion and started in 7th grade. It is his first year being in TBC. Some of his hobbies are biking, hiking, playing video games, and spending time with his family. Another thing he also enjoys is reading, as he finds it calming and engaging while also being helpful as he can learn new things. Rohan's favorite movie is the first Maze Runner movie, and he has also read the books from the series as well. One of his favorite adventures is flying to the top of Mount Denali on a plane during his trip to Hawaii. If he could be any animal, Rohan would be a Peregrine Falcon as they can go at 240 mph when diving for their prey. This ability combined with, of course, the ability to fly, makes the Peregrine Falcon a very unique and interesting animal.

Fiona Chan is a freshman at Irvington High School. She plays percussion and oboe. She started playing percussion at the age of five and started playing oboe in 7th grade. This is her first year being with TBC. Her hobbies are dancing and drawing. She has been dancing for 6 years. Her favorite style is Chinese dance. She has been drawing for a long time too. Her habit when drawing is making everything look clean. A fun fact about her is that she likes to snack on Asian snacks. In general she likes to snack on food a lot. She snacks on food when she is bored or when she is doing homework. She also enjoys eating a lot of delicious foods. If she could be any animal, she would pick to be a hummingbird. It is because hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and upside down. Also hummingbirds sometimes can seem like they are hovering in mid-air.

Siddaarth plays the trombone and started in the 6th grade. He mistakenly joined band in hopes of playing the violin but instead ended up with the trombone. Siddaarth has been a part of TBC for over a year now. In his free time Siddaarth likes to read various books, play video games, and go on bike rides. Siddaarth loves to cook and try foods from different cuisines. Finally, Siddaarth enjoys playing the trombone! Some fun facts about Siddaarth include that he has never broken a bone! His favorite show is also Attack on Titan. Siddaarth's favorite sport is Formula 1, which is the highest class of international auto racing! If Siddaarth could be any animal, he would be an eagle. He would love to have the ability to fly, as it is the closest thing to a superpower. He also thinks eagles are one of the coolest looking birds.