Just4Fun

Haha! No, I marched in Div II corps from '97-'99, and then I was done. Never had Div I "experience," but did not care to. I really just wanted to be a Cadet. Loved all their shows from '83 on. (The tradition...the culture...) I would have played the triangle or been the water boy if it meant a spot in the corps. Ah well. I did my best and that's that.

I moved from California to New Jersey to audition for the Cadets in 1998. I got cut, but I vividly remember Donnie VanDoren threatening to cut the entire mello line and "bring in his friends from Star of Indiana" to replace us if we didn't "shape up." ("Shape up, or ship out," he would say.) And the rest, as they say, is history. (Cadets won in '98.) Epilogue: I auditioned in '99 and got cut again. They offered to have me audition for the Crossmen, their feeder corps, but I said no thanks.