The Arcadia High School Varsity (World) Percussion line are now national champions after winning at the 2011 WGI World Percussion Championships finals Saturday, April 16, at Dayton, Ohio.
While the next three highest-scoring teams were separated by less than 1 1/2 points, the AHS team’s score of 97.525 was nearly two points higher than the second-place team in their division.
Performing a program called Rise under director Kevin Sherrill, the AHS team was one of 15 percussion finalists in the Scholastic World division —
the highest division for high school percussion units — six of the top ten of which were from Southern California.
Click here to see a short highlight video. Photos at right and below courtesy of Rev. David Chi, one of the team chaperones (pictured in bottom right photo on right).
Final rankings:
1 Â Â Â Arcadia HS (Arcadia, Ca.)Â 97.525
2 Â Â Â Dartmouth HS (Dartmouth, Mass.) 95.813
3 Â Â Â Center Grove HS (Greenwood, Indiana) 95.025
4 Â Â Â Chino Hills HS (Chino Hills, Ca.) 94.425
5 Â Â Â Mission Viejo HS (Mission Viejo, Ca.) 93.250
6 Â Â Â Ayala HS (Chino Hills, California)Â 91.900
7 Â Â Â Los Alamitos HS (Los Alamitos, Ca.) 91.325
8 Â Â Â Walled Lake Central HS (Walled Lake, Mich.) 90.950
9 Â Â Â Avon HS (Avon, Indiana)Â 90.338
10 Â Â Â Rancho Cucamonga HS (California)Â 90.050 11 Â Â Â North Shore HS (Houston, Texas)Â 88.525 12 Â Â Â Milton HS (Milton, Georgia)Â 86.725 13 Â Â Â Mt. Juliet HS (Mount Juliet, Tenn.) 85.750 14 Â Â Â King Philip Regional HS (Wrentham, Mass.) 85.525 15 Â Â Â Petal HS (Petal, Mississippi)Â 85.175
— By Scott Hettrick