Full Name: Rick Staaf

Grade: 10th

Age: 15

Instrument: Trumpet

Years in Marching Band (Counting middle school years): this will be my third

Other musical achievements (Counting middle school years): Jr. Districts, best musician, plus, I�m just the man so....

Other musical classes: chorus, bell choir

Thoughts on this year's marching band season compared to past years: it�s definitely gonna be a struggle, but.... "We will prevail....Life will go on...." - Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact

Goals in life: Graduate High School and then take my woman and move to New Orleans and own my own Jazz Night Club, preferably on Bourbon Street

Other thoughts: um....I think I should get the solos in Nights In White Satin, and not the saxes.....also.....my girlfriend is kool!