Six students with majors in the School of Natural Resources are part of the 2025 Cornhusker Marching Band.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s 300-member Cornhusker Marching Band makes its 2025 football season debut Sept. 6 at Memorial Stadium with pregame and halftime performances during Nebraska’s home opener against Akron.
This year’s band includes representatives from nearly every region of the country, with 79% hailing from Nebraska communities. Twenty-three percent of the members are students in the Glenn Korff School of Music, while the remainder represent more than 70 other academic programs across the university. Each student completed two auditions to earn a spot in the band.
The members from SNR are:
Cheyanne Pace, color guard, senior, fisheries and wildlife.
Jane Jewell, trombone, junior, fisheries and wildlife.
Kaden Polt, trumpet, junior, fisheries and wildlife.
James Kessler, trumpet, junior, biological sciences, and fisheries and wildlife.
Clara Freese, tuba, senior, fisheries and wildlife, and grassland systems.
Katelyn Ecklund, piccolo, freshman, environmental science.
Drum majors for the 2025 marching band are senior Travis Cloyd of Omaha; graduate student Jake Green of Lincoln; senior Tanner Maas of Gretna; and senior Gretchen Muth of Hastings. The twirler is senior Britney Berry of Omaha.
Tony Falcone, associate director of bands in the Korff School, is the director of the Cornhusker Marching Band. Doug Bush is the assistant director of bands and assistant marching band director. Carolyn Barber, Ron and Carol Cope Professor of Music, is director of bands. Other band staff members are graduate teaching assistants Foteini Angeli, Eric Elker and Andrea Mack. Jacob Wrobel is the percussion instructor, and Samantha Houston Brown is the color guard instructor. Rose Johnson is the administrative technician, Jan Deaton is the office associate, and Nolan Schmit is the “voice” of the band.
The Cornhusker Marching Band, which resides in the Korff School, was founded in 1879 as an ROTC unit and is one of the oldest marching bands in the nation. The band has received many honors throughout its 146-year history, including a Distinguished Recognition Trophy presented by John Philip Sousa in 1927 and the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Trophy in 1996. The Sudler Trophy is the highest honor given to collegiate bands.
See the complete list of band members at https://news.unl.edu/article/cornhusker-marching-band-makes-football-season-debut-sept-6