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Eternal Regiment



Independent Regional A Guard



Introduction Video



Want to learn what the Eternal Regiment is all about?

Come join our award-winning Color Guard program!

Check out our intro video here:

Introduction Video



Current Staff



Vivian Lam



Eternal Regiment Director



Vivian Lam is a senior at Mission San Jose High School. Vivian joined guard since 7th grade. A hobby Vivian enjoys is calligraphy. She enjoys practicing her calligraphy on her instagram account and writing cards for a non-profit. She also enjoys skateboarding. Vivian started skateboarding since last year. Another hobby Vivian enjoys is guard. Since 7th grade, Vivian has enjoyed color guard and winter guard during her free time.



Sydney Bailey



Color Guard Captain



Sydney Bailey is a junior at Mission San Jose High School. She joined guard freshman year, and has been a member for two years. Sydney has been a part of TBC for about 2 years now. Sydney spends a lot of time on color guard. She also enjoy painting, and drawing, and recently started to try digital art which she finds fun.



Feliza Alipio Jocson



Sr. Assistant Color Guard Captain - Rifles



Feliza Alipio Jocson is a senior at American High School. She started playing clarinet in 6th grade and still plays it in AHS’s symphonic band, but she joined winter guard her freshman year and has been in it since. This will be her first year in TBC, and she looks forward to being a part of this amazing community! Other than playing clarinet and spinning rifle, Feliza enjoys painting, baking, and learning new things.



Lilian Tijoe



Assistant Color Guard Captain - Flags



Lilian Tjioe (who mostly goes by Lily) is a junior at American High. She started winter guard her freshmen year at American High School and made the rewarding decision to join color guard parade during the fall season. Lily has been with TBC for about one month. Most of Lily’s hobbies surround art and creativity. She enjoys drawing, painting, and especially makeup because there are no boundaries to what she can create. Lily also recently got into biking around Fremont with her friends to get lost and discover new places.



Jenny Hunter



Instructor 2020-2021



Jenny has over 20 years of experience marching, both in band and color guard, from A-class high school to gold medals in WGI. She has over 18 years of experience teaching from middle school to college and world class drum corps and winter guards.



past Staff



Tiffany Ko


Instructor 2016-2018



Tiffany Ko started color guard at Mission San Jose High School where she won multiple 1st place finishes during her 4 years. In college Tiffany was on her school dance team at Johns Hopkins University and even appeared in a music video as a dancer. Tiffany is glad to be able to participate in winter guard once again!



Kiley Billock



Caption Manager 2017



Kiley started marching in high school, before joining the Spirit of Windsor winterguard from Windsor, Canada and subsequently with Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at Athens HS, Chippewa Valley HS, Grand Blanc HS, and Flushing HS. In 2005 Kiley started to march with Lakeshoremen Senior Drum and Bugle Corps, and in 2009 Kilties Senior Drum and Bugle Corps.



Ben Wilkinson



Instructor 2020-2021



Ben has been coaching, designing, and consulting for attention-grabbing, award-winning shows for numerous schools and independent programs for the last 15 years. His instructing experience include: Benicia, Fremont, Vanden, Archbishop Riordan, Franklin, John Swett, “…of essence”, and San Mateo.



Jessica Toro



Caption Manager 2018



Jessica Toro is the Color Guard Caption Manager at Irvington High School in Fremont, CA. She started color guard when she was a student at Irvington and has continued with her passion for guard ever since!



2021 Season Schedule:



We've gone virtual!

Below is a link to a spreadsheet with both the 2020-21 calendar, lesson plan, and video lessons!​

Lesson Plan / Video Lessons



Program Details:



School Year 2020-2021

Start Date: Sunday Sept 27th, 2020

End Date: Sunday May 23rd, 2021

Location: Virtual

For a document with full details, click here!




Details

  • Open to all students grades 5+
  • No experience needed
  • Equipment is provided


Cost

  • FREE! Donations are appreciated!


Our Process

  • Weekly video lessons
  • 1:1 lessons with a TA
  • Periodic assignments
  • Support to enter regional competitions



Why Join Color Guard?

  • Learn dance fundamentals
  • Get exercise
  • Make new friends
  • In high school, students in color guard can waive PE, freeing up additional space in their schedules
  • Win awards!



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Awards & Honors





2018

1st Place - CCGC Logan

1st Place - CCGC Oak Grove

1st Place - CCGC Lynbrook

Champion - CCGC Championships


2017

1st Place - CCGC Logan

1st Place - CCGC Independence

1st Place - CCGC Lynbrook

Champion - CCGC Championships



Current student Teaching Assistants



Sydney Bailey



11th Grade



Sydney is in her third year of color guard and has been doing it since her freshman year. She has taken part in two fall season and two winter seasons at MSJ, and has done TBC parades as well. Sydney's favorite Disney character is Wa​ll-e. She likes how he is a plant-loving robot from the future.



Valeria Sanchez Estrada



12th Grade



Valeria joined guard in her sophomore year and has never experienced something like it since! Valeria has four guard seasons under her belt, in which she has competed with flag, rifle and sabre. Valeria's favorite Disney Character is Rapunzel. Valeria wishes she could paint alongside a small reptilian friend.



Denise Huang



11th Grade



Denise is part of the varsity color guard at Irvington. She has marched four seasons with Irvington, and two seasons with TBC. She enjoys spinning flag, rifle and sabre. Denise's favorite Disney character is Winnie the Pooh!



Amber Lee



High School Graduate



Amber joined color guard during her sophomore year of high school, and it soon became her favorite activity in the entire world! She later joined TBC and performed in several parades with them, and she also joined TBC's winter guard (Tri-City Winter Guard) during her final year of high school. Amber's favorite Disney character is Princess Sofia!



Katrina Anne Mina



12th Grade



Katrina started her guard experience in winter guard during her sophomore year. Her first time doing guard wasn't a pleasant experience because she would constantly hit herself with the flag and when she tried doing tosses, she was scared of getting hit, but as time went by, she eventually fell in love with guard. Katrina's favorite Disney character is Winnie the Pooh!



Lilian Tijoe



11th Grade



Before joining guard, she was an alto sax in marching band, and would always gaze at the guard members with their colorful silks and impressive tosses. Although she does love playing music, she also wanted to try tossing flags and dancing with rifles. Learning choreography with the music was her favorite part. Her favorite Disney character is Mushu from Mulan.



Charitha Gangi



11th Grade



Charitha joined the guard section at the start of her sophomore year. She has partaken in two seasons of guard: one fall season which included field show and parade and one winter season. She has used flag in both of the seasons. Charitha’s favorite Disney character is Woody from Toy Story!



Rableen Kaleka



10th Grade



Rableen has been spinning since 7th when she first got introduced to guard through TBC. Ever since then, she has went on multiple parades with TBC as well as the Mission San Jose Marching Band. It's been three years now that she has been in guard, and she absolutely enjoys and loves it. Her favorite Disney character is Stitch.



Tanya Kammampati



12th Grade



She joined guard in her junior and learned mostly flag choreo. She is still somewhat new but works well with learning choreo quickly. She has only participated in one season in fall and is currently active in his second fall season. Her favorite Disney character is Aladdin.



Feliza Alipio Jocson



12th Grade



Feliza started her color guard journey in American High School's winter guard! She joined her freshmen year, and was selected for rifle her sophomore year. Feliza also plays clarinet, so she is able to participate in marching band on both clarinet and color guard. Her favorite Disney character is Merida from "Brave."



Shreya Daschoudhary



11th grade



Shreya joined guard as a freshman, and has done both fall and winter guard, totaling to about 3 seasons of guard experience. Guard has done a lot, from helping her get over my social anxiety to teaching valuable lessons about the importance of being open to working in a team and managing my schedule. As of right now, she's an assistant guard captain at American High School! Her favorite Disney character is Mulan.



Stefano GK Mach



12th grade



He has been in guard since the beginning of his freshman year of high school. He participated in the fall parade of every year which had one, and was part of the Irvington winter guard in sophomore year. His favorite Disney character is probably Jafar from Aladdin.



Natasha Cruz



College



Natasha has been a part of Irvington's colorguard for 3 years, starting during her sophomore year. She has been a part of their JV, Varsity, and winter guard on various types of equipment, but primarily flag. Her favorite Disney character is Megara from Hercules because she radiates queen energy.



Lauren Osaki



11th Grade



Lauren has marched 1 season with TBC as a colorguard cadet. She started colorguard at Irvington High School in freshman year, and has so far partaken in 2 marching seasons with Varsity colorguard, as well as 2 Winterguard seasons. She is currently looking forward to her third marching season as a junior! Her favorite Disney character is Genie from Aladdin.



Naomi Tchao



10th Grade



Naomi joined color guard at American High School last year, during her freshman year, and also joined winter guard after fall season ended. She knows how to use a flag and a rifle, though not as well as a flag. Her favorite Disney character would have to be Nemo, from Finding Nemo



Hyacinth Cajucom



12th Grade



I spent my sophomore and junior year in marching band color guard of American high school. I often was working on how to improve and it also taught me teamwork in different scenarios, environments and weather.



Katrina Chang



10th Grade



Katrina joined color guard in her freshmen year. She did a field show and parade routine last year so most of the color guard fundamentals. Her favorite disney character is Mike Wazowski.



Ayssis De los Reyes



10th Grade



The very first time Ayssis joined a color guard team was is 3rd grade. She enjoyed doing color guard so then in 6th grade she joined a color guard team at her school. She is a sophomore now at James Logan High School and is still continuing. Her favorite Disney character is Maleficent



Anika Sharma



11th Grade



Anika is a junior at Monta Vista and this is her second year on guard. In that time she has been on the JV team and is currently the color guard's event coordinator. Her favorite character is Belle.



About Us





The Tri-City Band Corps is proud to announce the Eternal Regiment, an Independent Regional A winter guard based in the Bay Area. This program is designed for junior high students as well as students who attend high schools without their own winter guard programs. We are extremely excited to have such a strong team of instructors to work with our members. Our program will be competing in the CCGC circuit and performing in exhibition at NCBA.



Gallery



Eternal Regiment 2018



Eternal Regiment 2017