The cafeteria filled with the chatter of Guard members as the time for practice rolled around. When guard instructor Mr. Nick McMahan walked into the room, the group of 15 dancers swarmed around him to practice lifting each other into the air for the year’s routine. “Think less cheerleader, more...

Winter guard members walked together down the hallway of the school toward the PE Gym, laughing and talking with each other about their days. They filed into the gym and set their flag bags together in an organized row near the door. Not much later, another girl came in, pulling a cart behind her. Familiar...