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Upper Darby High School Marching Royals seek recruits after national bronze finish
Summary
Upper Darby High School’s Marching Royals presented a recruitment video and celebrated recent competitive successes—including a national bronze medal and four state championships—while asking the community to help boost membership.
Upper Darby High School staff and student members presented a marching band recruitment video to the board and highlighted recent competitive achievements, including a national bronze finish for the school’s US Bands performance.
Band representatives described marching band as a source of ambition, teamwork and long‑term friendships, and asked the board and community to help recruit new members. “We want more than a hundred people this year,” one student speaker said, urging a district‑wide push so the program can sustain personnel losses from graduation.
Nut graf: The band director and student leaders said the group has both a strong competitive record (four-time state champions in recent seasons and a bronze medal at nationals with a score cited at 93.1) and an intensive season commitment. They told the board the program seeks a recruitment increase to replace roughly 32 graduating members and to expand the ensemble.
The presentation included a lighthearted anecdote about an out‑of‑league game and a physical handout of spare bronze medals to board members as tokens of thanks. Board members were invited to promote the program and its recruiting push to families.
Ending: The board received the recruitment presentation; the program requested community outreach support and no formal board action was required.
