Awards Night

Charlotte Kingshott took top honours at Southern Aurora’s 2007 Awards evening, Charlotte was awarded the John Norris Award for Excellence, she also collected the Most Improved Visual, Most Improved Brass and Rookie of the Year. Charlotte plays second soprano, she is a first year rookie with Aurora, who shows amazing aptitude and natural talent for drum corps, her brother Carl also received an award as most improved Battery Percussion.

The John Norris Award was awarded for the first time this year, in memory of John who we lost at the end of last year, John was the Vice Chairman and a much loved member of the corps, the trophy was presented by his wife Sandra.

The other major award, the Corps Directors Award, went to Jason Pope; Jason is an Aurora vet, and a member of the Bass Drum Line, he has helped and encouraged numerous members of the line to greater things, particularly this year when the line changed so many times, he was also instrumental in solving the problem when a bass drummer was lost with a broken leg 36 hours before finals, making it difficult to spot the missing drum.

The full list of awards was as follows:

John Norris Award for Excellence:    Charlotte Kingshott
Corps Directors Award:                     Jason Pope
Rookie of the Year:                           Charlotte Kingshott
Brass Member of the Year:               Beccy Powell
Most Improved Brass Member:         Charlotte Kingshott
Percussion Member of the Year:       Rob Shaw & Brynn Cooper
Most Improved Percussion:              Carl Kingshott
Front Line Member of the Year:        Becky Pope
Most Improved Front Line:               Rachel Macpherson
Guard Member of the Year:             Carla Norris & Gemma Goodwin
Visual Member of the Year:              Ashley Beard
Most Improved Visual:                      Charlotte Kingshott

The evening was a great success, and we would like to thank everyone for contributing to a successful year in 2007.

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