Rank 8

Rank 8 is the home of the sousaphones, baritones, and baritone saxophones. They're proud to play the biggest and deepest instruments in the 97, and they excel at adding to the atmosphere at football games with well timed renditions of "Brick House."

Maeve McGowan,Camryn Byrnes,Ranni Torrez,Mailei Schechterly,Sara Wantrobski ,Jack Wang ,Victor Hernandez,Eric Yang

Maeve McGowan

Maeve is in the class of '25! She is majoring in Psychology with minors in Health, Medicine, Society and Music! Maeve is originally from East Windsor, NJ. She is also a part of Kappa Kappa Psi, Health Risk Behavior Lab, Pickleball Club, and Wind Ensemble! Her favorite part of the Marching 97 is marching with all of her friends! When asked why she joined the M97 she responded “I joined the Marching 97 because I had a lot of fun in my high school's marching band, and I wanted to keep making music in a fun environment.” Maeve's favorite M97 memories are “getting to creating my exec video for band camp as PubMan, winning LeLaf my frosh year, and tailgating!” Her goal as rank leader was to help introduce frosh to the band and help our members on and off the field. A fun fact about Maeve is that she is a huge Beach Boys and Beatles fan.