NMAA 1st Annual Marching Band State Championship Results

The NMAA's 1st Annual State Marching Band Competition took place this past weekend. Congratulations to all the winners and participants on a fantastic event. Rio Rancho High School officially the became the first ever Marching Band State Champion. Finishing in a close second place was Cleveland High School with Organ Mountain bring home to Southern New Mexico the 3rd place trophy. 

The Championship event which took place at RRHS on Saturday, featured 28 teams from across the state-12 from Classes 1-4A and 16 from Class 5A. Each team went through a preliminary round early in the day. The top four teams from 1-4A and the top six from 5A moved on to the finals, which took place Saturday evening.

Rio Rancho, which had 168 performers, also took three of the four Caption Awards: High Guard, High Percussion and High General Effect. Organ Mountain took the last category, High Music.

NMAA Marching Band State Championship Results

Class 5A

1 – Rio Rancho – 78.720

2 – Cleveland – 78.700

3 – Organ Mountain – 77.525

4 – Clovis – 74.950

5 – La Cueva – 73.738

6 – Hobbs – 65.570

High Guard – Rio Rancho

High Percussion – Rio Rancho

High General Effect – Rio Rancho

High Music – Organ Mountain

Class 1A-4A

1 – Goddard – 65.875

2 – Lovington – 65.613

3 – Los Alamos – 65.613

4 – Portales – 62.225

High Guard – Goddard

High Percussion – Goddard

High General Effect – Los Alamos

High Music - Goddard

All results...

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