Cardinal Pride Color Guard

We’re officially just over halfway to our fundraising goal!

Thank you to all of our wonderful current sponsors who are helping the team have a wonderful 2026-2027 season from the start.

If you’re still on the fence, please consider helping these great kids reach their goal of $2500 to get all the equipment and supplies they need!

Donation form: https://forms.gle/aEpDZ4b29U6tqfAP6

We’re at the halfway point in our Very Important Cardinal fundraiser and are very grateful to our many generous sponsors that have donated a total of $710!!

If you’re interested in sponsoring this excellent team please follow the QR code in our flyer or the link https://forms.gle/xSmkcraBaabZartp7

All donations will go to essential equipment and supplies for this team to have a successful season. Especially as we’re going into our recurring fall season and preparing for the first ever CHS season of winter guard.

Our fundraising is off to a great start with several generous donations!

All proceeds from this fundraiser will go to buying the necessary new equipment for our upcoming fall season, buying supplementary materials to improve our game day and school spirit presence, helping students lower the cost of involvement, and helping us prepare for Clinton High Schools first ever season of Winter Guard!

Thank you again to all of our current sponsors! If you are not currently, please consider donating to this excellent group of student performers/athletes!

Here is our link to donate!
https://forms.gle/VJAthF8RtSqFRaATA

The Cardinal Pride Color Guard is launching its very first Very Important Cardinal or VIC Fundraiser! This is a sponsorship based fundraiser where donors (family, friends, businesses, other groups, etc.) will be credited as sponsors of the team and provided with some thank you gifts based on donation which are listed in our picture below.

We have four sponsorship tiers where you can be a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum VIC (Very Important Cardinal) for donations of $25, $50, $100, or $250+ to the team. These donations help the team with uniforms, equipment, travel, and an expansion of our season so they can have more performance opportunities! Our team is growing rapidly (nearly doubling from last season to now) and while we’re thrilled with this growth, it does come with some expenses.

We request that donors follow the QR code in our flyer or the link listed here to fill out a very brief form so we know who to thank and bring some goodies to!

https://forms.gle/hnozgM54RhEyLjTn6

Please consider donating to this outstanding group of student performers/athletes to help them have a highly successful season!

Questions can be directed to Makenzie Lewis via email at [email protected]

We’re pressing pause on senior recognitions to wish a very happy birthday to one of our incoming rookies! Happy birthday Aubrey🎉

Our next senior in the celebration lineup is Ashlyn Swartz. Ashlyn has spun her sophomore through senior years in the color guard in “Mirage”, “Imagine”, and a featured soloist in “Till Death Do Us Part”. In that time she has performed on flag and air blade. She has served as a captain of the team and our head social media manager who has been creating all of our graphics to post throughout her senior year. She is intuitive and resilient, as well as our inaugural recipient of the National School Color Guard Award for her contributions, dedication, and leadership in her time on the team. Ashlyn plans to attend Missouri State University to major in business administration before getting her real estate license.

She would like to say “If color guard taught me anything, it’s how to smile through absolute chaos.”

It’s that time of year. We’ve celebrated the 2025-2026 year with our end of year banquet, and now we need to celebrate our seniors as they prepare to graduate and go out into the world!

Our first senior of this series is Lydia Stowell. Lydia spun her junior and senior years with the color guard in “Imagine” and “Till Death Do Us Part”. In that time she performed both flag and air blade. She is passionate and determined in all that she does. Lydia plans to attend Missouri State University to major in English as a Second Language Elementary Education.

She would like to say “Don’t be afraid to try new things! You might surprise yourself!”

We’re also thrilled to announce our team for the 2026-2027 year! Congratulations to all of our new and returning members!

It’s May!! We are so excited about our upcoming season, make sure you keep an eye on our important dates coming up!

Audition week is finally here! Everyone will meet up in the high school band room after school and auditions will run each day 3:30-4:30 in the high school gym.
Unless it’s communicated prior, it’s especially important that everyone auditioning is there on May 1st to see everyone all at once!
We can’t wait to see everyone there!