Greetings!

It’s about that time! You know when we get dressed up in our gray and black polo’s and black pants, haul hundreds of pounds of instruments a few hundred yards an evening during the sweltering Texas heat on a Friday evening and we do it all for free! Then we wake up at the crack of dawn on Saturday and do it all over again for a marching competition!

And we do it for fun because it is fun! You get to watch the games from the sidelines, be front and center during every competition, and be there for when you child needs you the most...money for the concessions!

Welcome everyone to the new CHHS Panther Marching Band season! We have several new people this year to the Pit Crew and we will get to greet them really soon as the marching season is just around the corner.

We are the CHHS Panther Band Pit Crew. Our responsibility is to help the band move equipment on and off the field during football games and where needed during marching competitions. We are a 100% volunteer organization and your time is never mandatory meaning you show up if you can and when you can whether it’s for an hour or two hours when we have a marching event. Throughout the football season the band will perform during half times for the crowd and to prepare for marching competitions. We will also be using this time to prepare for marching competitions. We will be preparing to learn multiple responsibilities such as where and when instruments or ladders go onto the playing field and within the pit area. We will also be setting up electronic equipment to boot.

The CHHS Panther Band Pit Crew is an all volunteer organization but we represent our band and our school at all times. The only thing I ask is that we represent them well when at the various events, thus we have a dress code. During football games we are in our Pit Crew polo shirts and black pants, black jeans or black shorts. The Pit Crew hat is optional as well as the t-shirt. Please comply with this and make us look like the best and most organized crew at every event. People have and do notice and it makes our band look that much better! Your kids have to comply with a dress code during the games so let’s show them our pride and respect and do the same.

During the first few weeks we will be preparing name badges for everyone and this will become your entrance into the gates for football games. During marching competitions we may or may not have to pay to enter the stands. If you do not receive a name badge keep pestering me.

Finally, this will be my last year heading up the pit crew. As with my predecessor, I would like to shadow the future pit crew coordinator during my final year next year. Thus I am looking for a replacement. Please watch this year and see the great responsibility and fun it is to lead such a great group of friends and represent the band. And if you have the desire to lead with some years left in the band program then approach me or the directors.

Everyone, I welcome you to the pit crew or back again. This will be a fun and successful year because of your great kids and of course you!

My contact info is as follows:

Thank you for your time and help this year

Mark Reynolds