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Mr. Brooks has been with the WDHS marching band since 2003. An
accomplished performer, color guard instructor, visual designer, musician
and educator, Sam Brooks is also a full-time staff member for the 2007 Colts
Drum & Bugle Corps and serves as their Co-Caption Head for the color guard.
At 25 years of age, he has been instructing for the last nine years with
numerous nationally- and locally-competing color guard, marching band, and
drum and bugle corps programs in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas.
These groups range from the novice to world class levels and include West
Deptford HS, Triton HS, Highland HS, Absegami HS, Timber Creek HS, the 2006
DCA World Champion Reading Buccaneers, Carolina Gold Drum & Bugle Corps (as
caption head), Tri High Creek, Co-Motion and Blackwatch Color Guards. These
efforts have resulted in six Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Championship
titles, three Tournament Indoor Association Championship titles, over ten
medals and one DCA World Championship title. Since 2002, he also has been
serving as an adjudicator for the National Judges Association and Tournament
of Bands. He is currently a staff member for the WGI World Class Finalist,
Blackwatch Color Guard from Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
Sam's performance career began when he attended Triton High School in New
Jersey from 1996-1999. There he was a drum major for the marching band for
two years and also the Triton "Free Spirit" winterguard captain for three
years. In college, he studied music education and flute performance, and
continued to perform with the Blackwatch Winterguard from 2000-2001, where
the guard achieved WGI World Class Finalists status both years. He also
performed a summer in the Jersey Surf Drum & Bugle Corps in 2000, capturing
the guard caption at DCI Division II & III Finals. He completed his B.M. in
Music Education in 2003 and is currently beginning a M.A. in Educational
Leadership, both from Rowan University. He currently lives in Haddon
Heights, New Jersey, is the band director at Glen Landing Middle School and
an active freelance flutist in the Greater Philadelphia area. |
