KEARNEY – The University of Nebraska at Kearney Pride of the Plains Marching Band has announced its season schedule, which begins with UNK’s Sept. 12 football game against Central Oklahoma.
In addition to performing at all Loper home football games, the 83-member band performs in the annual UNK Band Day Parade and Bearcat Marching Festival Sept 21. The parade begins at 10 a.m.
Other scheduled performances include the Oct. 5 Homecoming Parade and Oct. 26 at the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association State Marching Contest, hosted at Kearney High School.
Show themes for the 2019 season include music from Disney and superhero movies.
The band is under the direction of Brian Alber. The drum line instructor and director of bands is Duane Bierman, and the color guard coordinator is Adrienne Rall. Drum majors are Miranda Niemeier of Omaha and Sydney Wilson of Minden.
Pride of the Plains Schedule
Sept. 12, 7 p.m. – Loper Football vs Central Oklahoma (Foster Field)
Sept. 21, 10 a.m. – Band Day Parade
Sept. 21, 1 p.m. – Exhibition, Bearcat Marching Festival (Kearney High School)
Sept. 28, 7 p.m. – Loper Football vs Pittsburg State, Alumni Band Day (Foster Field)
Oct. 5, 10 a.m. – UNK Homecoming Parade (Downtown Kearney)
Oct. 5, 2 p.m. – Loper Football vs Northeastern State, (Foster Field)
Oct. 19, 2 p.m. – Loper Football vs Northwest Missouri State (Foster Field)
Oct. 26, TBD – Exhibition, Nebraska State Bandmasters Association contest (Kearney High School)
Nov. 2, 12 p.m. – Loper Football vs Central Missouri (Foster Field)
Nov. 16, 12 p.m. – Loper Football vs Washburn (Foster Field)
2019 Pride of the Plains members
| CITY | NAME |
| Alliance | Keaton Cottrell |
| Alliance | Andrew Stich |
| Amherst | Steve Boldt |
| Ashland | Kate Book |
| Bassett | Aaron Sybrant |
| Beatrice | Kaylin Hagemeier |
| Broken Bow | Sam Hundstad |
| Central City | Bailey Manhart |
| Columbus | Caitlin Becker |
| Columbus | Mia Grant |
| Columbus | Elijah Mackie |
| Columbus | Isaac McPhillips |
| Columbus | Vivi Velazquez |
| Columbus | Travis Woodcock |
| Crete | Alexis Powell |
| Culbertson | Kassi Cooper |
| Gering | Isaiah Henderson |
| Gibbon | Morgan Wadkins-Meyer |
| Grand Island | KC Carillo |
| Grand Island | Oscar Erives |
| Grand Island | Emily Laub |
| Grand Island | Brooke Lee |
| Grand Island | Taylor Mues |
| Grand Island | Cosme Price |
| Grand Island | Aryanna Warner |
| Gresham | Alisha Vavra |
| Hartington | Sadie Uhing |
| Hastings | Ashley Hein |
| Hastings | Rachel Witt |
| Holdrege | Hannah Hofaker |
| Kearney | Megan Ashman |
| Kearney | Taylor Berumen |
| Kearney | Ashleigh Doremus |
| Kearney | Mychaela Fegter |
| Kearney | Patricia Schmidt |
| Kearney | Jacob Temme |
| Kearney | Kayla Wolfe |
| Lawrence | Brandi Mazour |
| Lexington | Jonathan Madison |
| Lexington | Evan Neben |
| Lexington | Chris Rogers |
| Lexington | Jennifer Sanchez |
| Lincoln | Andrew Bond |
| Lincoln | Dylan Gress |
| Lincoln | Emma McDermott |
| Lincoln | Josie Minor |
| Lincoln | Madison Sanders |
| Minden | Sydney Wilson |
| Norfolk | Isabelle Kaup |
| Norfolk | Abbey Nemec |
| Norfolk | Kelsi Woodard |
| North Platte | Alleigh Beckman |
| North Platte | Cassie Brown |
| North Platte | Zach Carter |
| North Platte | Kelsey Folchert |
| North Platte | Steven Koehn |
| North Platte | Zac Ochsner |
| North Platte | Phebe Pavelka |
| North Platte | AJ Reinhard |
| North Platte | Greg Stoner |
| North Platte | Devin Wolcott |
| Ogallala | DeVere Larington |
| Omaha | Erica Little |
| Omaha | Miranda Niemeier |
| Omaha | Anna Overbeck |
| Ord | Kora Severance |
| Osceola | Christian Schlief |
| Osceola | Mary Kate Steele |
| Papillion | Caleb McClung |
| Papillion | Ellie Morrison |
| Rising City | Connor Morrison |
| Scottsbluff | Harley Herman |
| Shelton | Matt Puhalla |
| Seward | Nickolas Shearer |
| Syracuse | Emily Wellsandt |
| Wallace | Hannah Sullivan |
| Winside | Connor Lemke-Elznic |
| York | Camden Wallingford |
| OUT OF STATE | |
| Brighton, CO | Zac Dibbern |
| Garden City, KS | Fernanda Chacon-Arzaga |
| Garden City, KS | Johnathon Mata |
| Parker, CO | Hayden Baldwin |
| Red Oak, IA | Jared Sherman |
