They flood the football field during the halftime of football games, practice dawn till dusk during the summer and are some of the most unique and extraordinary students one can meet. They are the Marching Sequoits.

Antioch Community High School’s marching band, the Marching Sequoits, is a group of some 75 students, freshmen through seniors, who pour their heart out into their music and performances to boost school spirit.

Junior Anna Reimer, who has been in the Marching Sequoits for two years, said, “[Marching Sequoits] is a good opportunity for band students or other musical students to make friends and be involved in the school. You get to learn music that you normally don’t play in a normal band class and get to widen your range of musical abilities.”

Part of the success of the program is a focus on passion and family.

“Dedication, pride, and willing to be a family with all the other students goes into being a Marching Sequoit. The marching band it is not about getting credit for what we do, but instead we are there to play music and get the school spirit going. That’s what we’re really all about,” Reimer said.

Fine arts teacher and Marching Sequoits band director Jonathan Untch said, “The Marching Sequoits have won hundreds of trophies over the last few decades.  If you walk into the band and orchestra rehearsal hall you will see countless trophies on display. It is difficult to pick one accomplishment over the bands long history. I’m not sure when the ensemble got its start.  I just met some band alumni who attended here in the 1970’s, and the fine arts program was here well before them.  The new fine arts classrooms were built in 1972.”