What Age Were You When You Joined

[Dennis Argul]

18

[mgailp]

I was a late bloomer comparred to all ya'll - 32

[spiniki]

I never got to march junior, mainly b/c I didn't know anything about it. This year, at 23, when I learned what I could be doing with my not-so-free time, I grabbed a highschool color guard friend and made her teach me so I could join. I played flute for 8 years and tried brass a few times. Brass doesn't work for me, and I kinda wish it did b/c we really need some more horns this year!

[Stinger91]

Aged out of junior corps in 1991.....

Marching my first year of senior corps 15 years later at the age of 35.

[JimF-LowBari]

WOW - never thought I'd get so many responses on this

Up to this post here's the list (Total - 71)

Age - number

8 - 1

12 - 2

13 - 5

14 - 1

15- 7

16 - 11

17 - 7

18 - 5

19-3

20 - 3

21 - 1

22 - 3

23 - 2

24 - 1

25 - 1

27- 1

28 - 3

31 - 2

32 - 3

34 - 1

35 - 1

38 - 2

42 - 1

46 - 1

49 - 1

50 - 1

51 - 1

Edited December 19, 2005 by JimF-xWSMBari

[sburstall]

If you count that '91 Royal Lancers as a competing senior corps ('90 for parades), then I would have been...::getting out calculator::...24 (23 for '90).

'01 Crusaders (real DCA corps) would have made me 35.

[TomMoore]

I was 35 when I joined the Buccaneers in 2005, and turned 36 in the middle of the competitive season, during the Lewisburg weekend. It was my first experience as a member of any drum corps. And an amazing one to boot! :)

[Altoid Shirley]

I joined Guardsmen Cadets in 83 when I was 11-12 to be with my friend who played a french horn.

I was there until the summer of 85.

20 years later I joined the Kilties in 2005 at the age of 33-34.

[st8smenguard]

I was 8 when I started drum corps (Jr. = St. Ignatious Girls/New Image)

I was 12 when I became an "official member" of the New York Skyliners, 11 if you want to count the year I was "support/pick".

And if you want to go back even further, I was 5 when I started in a parade corps called Bill's Boys.

[stacysquire]

I was 17 when I joined Empire Statemen in 96. It would have been sooner but our high school had a rule that you could not march drum corps until you graduated or you would be tossed out of their music program. For a music major that is a big thing. So I waited. Had I known then what I know now, I would have told them to #### off. lol

I was 8 when I started drum corps (Jr. = St. Ignatious Girls/New Image)

I was 12 when I became an "official member" of the New York Skyliners, 11 if you want to count the year I was "support/pick".

And if you want to go back even further, I was 5 when I started in a parade corps called Bill's Boys.