2025 Update: National A Class
The Musical Arts Conference is pleased to welcome Alyssa Taglia from WTNH Channel 8 TV as a special guest for the 2025 Winter Guard Championships on March 29th. Alyssa will be opening the event as well as announcing some of the units competing.
Alyssa Rae Taglia is a proud Connecticut native who can be seen every weekday morning on WTNH News 8’s Good Morning Connecticut as their traffic reporter and co-anchor for Connecticut’s Morning Buzz at 10 a.m.
An early graduate of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA., and former Miss Connecticut 2016, Alyssa represented her home state in the 2017 Miss America Pageant live on ABC. Immediately following her year of service, she enrolled in the New York Film Academy’s Broadcast Journalism program on a full scholarship. Alyssa makes giving back a top priority and volunteers with many charitable organizations.
Above all, Alyssa puts family first. She loves spending quality time with her husband, family, friends and Frenchton pups, Remmy and Nico.
Based on feedback from Directors and in alignment of rightsizing our class structures, there has been an update to the Guard classification of National A. Beginning this winter season, any ensemble who is participating in any number of WGI events in the A class, must sign up for the National A class in MAC. This will help ensembles to compete with each other that are designing shows for a national audience, promote advancement for the AA classes into a truly local A class, and allow those beginner ensembles to remain in the AA class with other similarly-designed ensembles.
For more information about MAC guard classification definitions, click here.
2025 Update: Equipment Time
Based on updates to WGI guard policies, minimum equipment time has been brought back and will be in effect starting this season. For more information and specific requirements for timing, click here.
2024: Fan Favorites
Congratulations to our 2024 Fan Favorite winners Naugatuck Winter Guard and Norwalk Percussion on winning over our audience with truly memorable and entertaining shows!
