2006-2007

Conductor: Dan Schwarting
Managers: Chris Behrens, Gary Russinko
Freakout opponent: SLU (tied 3-3, kept the streak going at 12-0-5)
Gift: Red beanie

Road Trips

The band carpooled to North Troy to march in the Uncle Sam Day Parade for the second year.

The band carpooled 45 members to the Pepsi Arena in Albany (now the Times Union Center) on October 28th and 29th for the first annual Governor's Cup tournament. RPI advanced to the championship game after winning over Union in a shootout, and then beat Colgate 2-1 the next night to win the first Governor's Cup.

November 10, 2006 - Northford Ice Pavilion

The band traveled by bus on this Friday for a day trip to a women's game against Quinnipiac with a band about 20 strong. There seemed to be a pretty even split between RPI and Quinnipiac fans at the game. Since the Northford Ice Pavillion only seats about 700 (on only one side of the rink, no less) the band sounded really loud. We knew this because when we played the anthems with Quinnipiac's band, some of our players were noticeably flinching for each cymbal crash. A lot of the band was singing along with the songs on the PA system the whole night, especially "Sweet Caroline" and "Build Me Up Buttercup" (twice - the Quinnipiac band played it once as well). Dan was harassed by the Qunnipiac mascot, a bobcat, early in the game but less so as it became evident that we were going to win. We went on to win the game 5-1 for the women's first ever ECAC victory, and when we went to cheer on the team they were very appreciative that we had made the trip, saying that it felt like a home game.

Carpooled over to Union on 12/9/2006 for women's hockey. The team won 5-1 to complete their first ECAC weekend sweep, and we got invited to a hockey party after the game.

Carpooled over to Union on 1/13/2007 before classes started for men's hockey. The team won 3-2, and told us that it felt like a home game.

Took a coach bus over to Brown for a day trip on 1/27/2007 for men's hockey. The team won 4-3, bringing us to 5-0-1 on away games that the pep band's played at this season.

Overnight trip for men's hockey was to Dartmouth and Harvard where the team lost 5-2 and 3-1 respectively. The games were much closer than the scores indicated (especially since there was an ENG in each). Lost much of the respect we had for the Red Army when they became completely unresponsive to our attempts to start cheers in the 3rd period at Harvard.

Playoffs

Football

ECAC Northeast Championship Game @ Cortland State: Won 26-7. The band was unable to go to the game due to a lack of available buses.

Hockey

Women's ECAC Playoffs - Round 1: @ Dartmouth: Lost in two games, 3-6, 1-3
Men's ECAC Playoffs - Round 1: @ Colgate: Lost in two games, 1-3, 1-4

Other

Recordings were made for a second CD.
Hosted the Clarkson band on January 19, 2007.
Hosted the Colgate band on February 9, 2007. With the permission of the administration, we put them up for the night in the Union.
Hosted the Cornell band on February 10, 2007.