Name: Kristine Baker
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Instrument: Clarinet, primarily. I also play tenor saxophone, and play some percussion instruments(mostly bass drum and mallet instruments).
Marching Experience:
2004-2007 Vicksburg HS Marching band
2007-2009 Western Michigan University's Bronco Marching Band(had to take this season off due to a knee injury :( )

FMA Groups:
Marching Band - The Sound of the Midwest - Div III
Drum Corps - Taking care of Business (when i picked this, i couldn't think of a drum corp name and this was the song i happened to be listening to at the time, haha) - Div III
Winter Guard - Color Splash - Div III
Drumline - Overture - Div III

I'm currently in my 4th year at Western Michigan University as an Early Childhood Education Major, and i'm also a 2nd year at Kalamazoo Valley Community College as a web and graphic design major. Long story short, i couldn't decide what degree i wanted more, so i'm just doing both. If anyone wants to know more about me, you're more than welcome to friend me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kristine.l.baker

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Name: Jake Everett
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Location: Skaneateles Falls, NY
Instrument: Trombone/Flute/Trumpet/Baritone/Tuba (contra too)/Piano/General Percussion/Violin
Marching Experiance:
Jordan-Elbridge Marching Eagles
Empire Statesmen Drum and Bugle Corps of Rochester, NY
FMA Groups:
DC: Redcoats(currently 12th as of this post)
MB: The Elites (Currently 5th as of this post)
WG: National Guard (currently 7th as of this post)
WD: Impact Percussion (Currently 3rd as of this post)

I never officially did this I guess.

Name: Douglas A. Olmstead

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Insturment: Tuba/Euph and Conducting

Marching Experience:
2004 - 2005: FHS Trojan Marching Band Sousa section leader - MCBA State Finalists
2006 - 2007: FHS Trojan Marching Band Drum Majour - MCBA State Finalists
2008: Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps Drum Majour - DCI Open Class World Finalists
2010: GVSU Laker Marching Band Sousaphone soloist
2011: GVSU Laker Marching Band Sousaphone section leader

College: Aquinas College principle tubist

Other:
Michigan State Band and Orchestra Association All-State Band tubist 2007
West Michigan Concert WINDS tubist 2008 - 2009 (soloist in 2009)
Holland American Legion Band tubist 2011

FMA groups:
The Druids (currently 1st in Div. II), whom are my baby and started Season 7 of Fantasy Marching Band as one of the only ensembles sans woodwinds.
Shamrock Marching Band who won Div. III and Div. II FMAMB in the earlier Seasons.
And a drumline I kinda never cared about.

Short bio: I started wanting to be a band director the summer before my freshman year in 2003 when I saw The Cavaliers for the first time (Spin Cycle) at my first DCI show, and decided I wanted to do marching band. Since then I've been hard at work practicing playing and conducting to be a band director. I intend to graduate 2014 with my BME and go straight into my master's in conducting at Michigan State University. I already have a lot of teaching experience under my belt-- two years as FHS Brass Caption Head (2008 - 2009) and Kent City High School Winds Caption head (2010 - Present) and co-arranger. I am part of concept design for them, and arranged their warm ups and on-field warm up. I also teach a boat-load of middle school students in the Byron Center area. Looking to get into DCA for a bit, and then tech an open class corps while in college before getting my masters, and one day I want to be assistant director of music and athletic music director at a college. In case you did the math, yes, I took two summers off between high school and college for drum corps and to teach.