Just curious what others do with their old non-UIL related trophies? We are running out of space in the band hall.
Re: old trophies
Posted by older than dirt on 1/22/2025, 2:32 pm, in reply to "old trophies" Edited by board administrator 1/24/2025, 11:23 pm
many years ago at another school, we made plaques for decades. Took the plackard that told ranking/rating and the contest and put them chronologically on the plaque. It's a big piece of wood that has each decade of "successes". And, obviously gave the hardware to drama to use as they desired.
Re: old trophies
Posted by Just me on 1/22/2025, 1:48 am, in reply to "old trophies" Edited by board administrator 1/24/2025, 11:26 pm
We keep all UIL trophies. The others? Depends. If it’s a state championship (TECA, TCGC, etc) trophy, we keep it. If it’s a BOA/USSBA finalists trophy, we keep it. For the random “best percussion at the Crackaxle Canyon Festival” or the “Outstanding auxiliary at the Foggy Bottom Corral” type thing, here’s what we do: we have all of those displayed on the shelf with all the others. I keep them gathered together by year. So right now, we have 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 displayed. At the end of this school year, I throw away the 2021/22 trophies. The senior class that is graduating walks out with their 4 years worth of trophies displayed. The junior class wasn’t around for that year and won’t know the difference.
I’ve never caught flack over this and no one but me and the other directors know that we toss them. Have you ever had a kid come back to visit and ask to look at the best hornline trophy from 1996? No. Our kids come back and visit. All the time. And the conversations never seem to make their way around to “can I see the trophy we won?”
Our trophy display is large and impressive and the “biggies” stay there. The random ones, we toss after all the kids that were involved have moved on. It works for us.
Re: old trophies
Posted by MS on 1/21/2025, 1:51 pm, in reply to "old trophies"
Took a picture of each one. Bought a digital photo frame. Display that.
Ask admin for district guidance on storing or removing.
