AHS band members qualify for UIL state in solo & ensemble

Twelve members of the Athens High School Band qualified Saturday for the UIL State Solo and Ensemble competition. They are (top row, from left) Dakota Lindsey, Juan Aguilar and Kolemann Dooley, who make up the baritone trio; Jonathan Bywaters, Joseph Mahmoud, Bryce Bowman and Gerardo Godinez, who make up the sax quartet; and (bottom row, from left) Jordan Bennett, Michelle Bywaters, Juan Martinez and Jacob Smith, who make up the percussion ensemble along with Eli McCool who is not pictured. (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)
Twelve members of the Athens High School Band qualified Saturday for the UIL State Solo and Ensemble competition. They are (top row, from left) Dakota Lindsey, Juan Aguilar and Kolemann Dooley, who make up the baritone trio; Jonathan Bywaters, Joseph Mahmoud, Bryce Bowman and Gerardo Godinez, who make up the sax quartet; and (bottom row, from left) Jordan Bennett, Michelle Bywaters, Juan Martinez and Jacob Smith, who make up the percussion ensemble along with Eli McCool who is not pictured. (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)

Athens ISD press release

Seventy members of the “Pride of the Hornets” Athens High School Band competed at UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest Saturday in Lindale. Forty earned first division ratings, for a total of 45 medals. Twelve qualified for state.

Those who earned first-divisions are Juan Aguilar, Luisa Arenas, Jordan Bennett, Bryce Bowman, Jonathan Bywaters, Michelle Bywaters, Noah Capps, Candace Clemmons, Ian Collins, Elian Cordero, Mollie Davies, Baylee DeShazo, Kolemann Dooley, Evan Ellis, Pedro Fraire, Cindy Garcia, Maria Garcia, Ricardo Garcia, Gerardo Godinez, Devin Hembree, Will Honea, Russell Ingram, Breonna Jackson, Darien Lambert, Yuvia Leon, Dakota Lindsey, Dylan Lindsey, Brian Lookabaugh, Brenda Lopez, Joseph Mahmoud, Allison Martinez, Juan Martinez, Eli McCool, Grace McCool, Caity Pace, Jakob Smith, Kelsey Torres, Ben van der Colff, Kaylea Westover and Vernice Williams.

The 12 who qualified for the UIL State Solo and Ensemble competition to be held in Austin at the end of the school year are Aguilar, Bennett, Bowman, J. Bywaters, M. Bywaters, Dooley, Godinez, Dakota Lindsey, Mahmoud, J. Martinez, E. McCool and Smith.