THE FINAL PUSH
The Final Push – it’s a Cadets trademark. As we wow audiences with clean drill, great music and intricate guard work, we know something they don’t – If you think this is great, just wait for the last 45 seconds.
When The Cadets are the most exhausted, we find it within ourselves to increase the momentum. We kick up the tempo to 200+ beats per minute. Feet, flags and tubas fly around the field as drill shapes weave a dazzling final effect. The we halt, and even the final note crescendos to the release. The Cadets leave it all on the field.
This magnificent effect doesn’t stop with the show. Rehearsals intensify until we bring it in. The summer tour ramps up to Finals Week. The Cadets instills in our members a lifelong push to be the best they can be.
As we approach the end of 2020, we need your help in yet another Cadets Final Push.
Even now, The Cadets continue to faithfully practice, work out, perform for their instructors, and meet together online. In many ways, their story is similar to that of every Cadets corps, full of adversity, discipline, and camaraderie. But unlike a tough visual block that seems it may never end, The 2020 Cadets truly had no end to their adversity in sight. They have had to do something no Cadets have done before them: To stand together when the only Cadet they can see is themselves.
But like all Cadets before them, they have upheld our great tradition, continuing to march us forward, and now we ask you to join us as we push through the end of 2020 and into a brighter 2021.
We know this may be a big ask. 2020 has not discriminated in doling out adversity, and just as this year has brought challenges to The Cadets, we know it has been difficult for you. But that’s what The Cadets’ final push is about: When we feel we have nothing more within ourselves to give, we push to the end together. Whatever you are able to give, will you join us? Gifts of any size will make a big difference.
