Think Olympics opening ceremony, then synchronized swimming and add twirling rifles and saber rattling. That’s winter guard — a sport that high school marching bands practice between football seasons.

Niwot High’s new color guard director, Anthony Pierro, was so impressed with the talent of Niwot’s students, along with those at other schools featured during St. Vrain Valley’s band night, that he ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — You can always spot the University of Kentucky Color Guard members by their waving flags and spinning rifles! These students are a vital part of the Wildcat Marching Band, ...

A color guard adds pageantry to a marching band with complicated marching patterns, flags, sabers, rifles or other heraldic accoutrements. In high school, the end of the marching season usually marks ...

BILLERICA — Daylong practices, weekend travel and teamwork. It’s all par for the course for Billerica’s Winter Color Guard. Though color guard may not match traditional ideas of what a sport is, ...

When the color guard of the Harwinton Volunteer Fire Department marches in parades, the flag-bearer has always been flanked by fellow firefighters shouldering not the traditional rifle, but rather big ...

METUCHEN — Students in the Metuchen High School Marching Band are having a once-in-a-lifetime experience, one they and their parents have worked for since June. Today, the 78 members of the band and ...

Members of the La Cañada High School Marching Band and Color Guard have worked since August to perfect an 8.5-minute field show designed to stun audiences and showcase what hundreds of hours of ...