2026 Season Band Shares
NORTHWESTERN
TIGER PRIDE
BAND & GUARD
Excellence in Performance is a Tradition!
***ISSMA STATE FINALIST***
1989, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
***2025 ISSMA BRONZE MEDALIST***
***2017 ISSMA STATE RUNNER-UP***
DIRECTORS: Jeremy Snyder & Jon Rodgers
GUARD DIRECTOR: Lauren Marshall
EVENTS SCHEDULE
Never Miss a Performance!
FOOTBALL GAME PERFORMANCE
**SENIOR RECOGNITION NIGHT**
Friday, October 16, 2026
Call Time:
5:45 pm
SENIOR PARENTS - arrive by 6:15pm
Northwestern High School
Kokomo, IN
COMPETITION - ISSMA Semi-State
Saturday, October 24, 2026
Performance Time:
TBA
Franklin Community High School
Franklin, IN
COMPETITION - ISSMA Finals
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Performance Time:
TBA
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
PERFORMANCE & COMPETITION RESULTS
2026 "The Hive" Marching Season
ISSMA STATE FINALS
Sat, Nov 7
ISSMA SEMI-STATE
Sat, Oct 24
ISSMA REGIONAL
Sat, Oct 10
ISSMA INVITATIONAL - Homestead HS
Sat, Oct 3 - GOLD Rating
Distinction in Music
Distinction in Visual
Distinction in General Effect
CARROLL INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 26 - SECOND PLACE
Outstanding General Effect
NORTHWESTERN INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 19 - EXHIBITION
WESTFIELD INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 12 - SECOND PLACE
Outstanding Visual
2025-2026 School Year
ISSMA All-Music Award
ISSMA Marching Band
GOLD Rating, Distinctions in Music, Visual, & General Effect
ISSMA Open Class D State Finalists - 3rd place
ISSMA District Solo/Ensemble Contest
79 performances
162 Gold, 6 Silver Ratings
ISSMA State Solo/Ensemble Contest
20 performances
75 Gold, 4 Silver Ratings
ISSMA Jazz Contest
GOLD Rating
1 Outstanding Soloist Ribbon
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ISSMA Junior High Contest
8th Grade Band - GOLD Rating
6th/7th Grade Combined Band - GOLD Rating
ISSMA Concert Organizational Contest
GOLD Rating, GOLD in Sight-Reading
King's Island Music in the Parks Festival
Grand Champion Band (all classes/all categories)
1st Place Jazz Band in Class A
Superior Rating
2 Outstanding Soloist Medals
ABOUT THE NORTHWESTERN TIGER PRIDE
The Northwestern High School Band has a long tradition of performance excellence, dating back to the consolidation into Northwestern High School in 1948. Originally known as the "Purple Pride Show Band," the TIGER PRIDE now competes throughout the Indiana State School Music Association circuits at Concert Band, Marching Band, and Jazz Band events. The Northwestern Band and Guard is Northwestern High School and Northwestern Middle School's largest student activity.
The TIGER PRIDE is a ten-time ISSMA Marching Band State Finalist - most recently finishing 3rd place in 2025 - and has won many other awards and recognitions as a result of their performances. The TIGER PRIDE has performed multiple times in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, most recently in Spring 2025. In 2017 and again in 2023 and 2026, the TIGER PRIDE was selected to represent ISSMA in the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade, the 3rd most-viewed parade in the United States.
Each year since 2016, the Northwestern Band has earned ISSMA's prestigious All-Music Award. Northwestern was the smallest and one of only 22 Indiana high schools to receive the All-Music Award for the Total Music Department in 2025.
In 2017, the Northwestern Winterguard finished their season as State Runners-Up in their competitive division in IHSCGA. In 2018, the Winterguard moved up a competitive class and finished 9th in IHSCGA State Finals. In 2025, the Winterguard finished 11th place in IHSCGA State Finals.