2025 Season Band Shares
NORTHWESTERN
TIGER PRIDE
BAND & GUARD
Excellence in Performance is a Tradition!
***ISSMA STATE FINALIST***
1989, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
***2017 ISSMA STATE RUNNER-UP***
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DIRECTORS: Jeremy Snyder & Jon Rodgers
GUARD DIRECTOR: Lauren Marshall
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EVENTS SCHEDULE
Never Miss a Performance!
Football Game Performance
vs. Rochester
**SENIOR NIGHT**
Seniors will be recognized @ 6:35pm prior to the game
Friday, October 10, 2025
Northwestern High School
Kokomo, IN
ISSMA Invitational
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Performance Time:
3:45 pm
Homestead High School
Fort Wayne, IN
ISSMA Regional
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Performance Time:
1:30 pm
Center Grove High School
Greenwood, IN
PERFORMANCE & COMPETITION RESULTS
2025 "Pastime" Marching Season
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ISSMA STATE FINALS
Sat, Nov 8
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ISSMA SEMI-STATE
Sat, Nov 1
ISSMA REGIONAL
Sat, Oct 18
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​ISSMA INVITATIONAL
Sat, Oct 11
FISHERS INVITATIONAL
Sat, Oct 4
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ZIONSVILLE INVITATIONAL
Sat, Oct 4
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NOBLESVILLE INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 26 - THIRD PLACE
Outstanding Music
Outstanding Drum Majors
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NORTHWESTERN INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 13 - EXHIBITION
WESTFIELD INVITATIONAL
Sat, Sep 6 - FIRST PLACE
Outstanding Visual
Outstanding Percussion
2024-2025 School Year
ISSMA All-Music Award - Total Department
ISSMA Marching Band
GOLD Rating, Distinctions in Music, Visual, & General Effect
ISSMA Open Class C State Finalists - 7th place
ISSMA District Solo/Ensemble Contest
99 performances
164 Gold, 8 Silver Ratings
ISSMA State Solo/Ensemble Contest
19 performances
51 Gold, 7 Silver Ratings
ISSMA Jazz Contest
GOLD Rating With Distinction
14 Outstanding Soloist Ribbons
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ISSMA Junior High Contest
8th Grade Band - GOLD Rating
7th Grade Band - GOLD Rating
ISSMA Concert Organizational Contest
GOLD Rating, GOLD Rating in Sight-Reading
ABOUT THE NORTHWESTERN TIGER PRIDE
The Northwestern High School Band has a long tradition of performance excellence, dating back to the consolidation into Northwestern High School in 1948. Originally known as the "Purple Pride Show Band," the TIGER PRIDE now competes throughout the Indiana State School Music Association circuits at Concert Band, Marching Band, and Jazz Band events. The Northwestern Band and Guard is Northwestern High School and Northwestern Middle School's largest student activity.
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The TIGER PRIDE is a nine-time ISSMA Marching Band State Finalist - most recently finishing 7th place in ISSMA Class C in 2024 - and has won many other awards and recognitions as a result of their performances. The TIGER PRIDE has performed multiple times in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and will again in Spring 2025. In 2017 and again in 2023, the TIGER PRIDE was selected to represent ISSMA in the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade, the 3rd most-viewed parade in the United States.
Each year since 2016, the Northwestern Band has earned ISSMA's prestigious All-Music Award. Northwestern was the smallest and one of only 22 Indiana high schools to receive the All-Music Award for the Total Music Department in 2025.
In 2017, the Northwestern Winterguard finished their season as State Runners-Up in their competitive division in IHSCGA. In 2018, the Winterguard moved up a competitive class and finished 9th in IHSCGA State Finals. In 2025, the Winterguard finished 11th place in IHSCGA State Finals.