Mike Hannewald
Sustainable Plant Systems
Waterville, OH
This year, Ohio State is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of one of its greatest traditions: Script Ohio. In what has become an icon of our university, members of TBDBITL (the marching band) take time at the beginning of every home football game to organize themselves into the memorable O-H-I-O. And of course, there’s always the honor given to one of the senior sousaphone players, the chance to “dot the i.”
But in more recent years, this tradition has expanded beyond the turf of Ohio Stadium. On January 15th, the Ohio State University Athletic Band traveled to Cleveland for the Frozen Diamond Face-Off, an outdoor hockey game in which the Buckeyes faced our greatest rival, the Michigan Wolverines. During the first intermission of the game, myself and nearly 300 others marched down onto the ice of the arena to perform “Script Ohio on Ice” for over 25,000 fans in attendance. You can check out a video of us performing at: http://tinyurl
.com/tbdbitlonice.
The Athletic Band is a band of about 300 members who perform at various events such as basketball and hockey games. It’s made up of all kinds of students with many different majors. Many of them are also in the marching band, but most of them, like me, are a part of the band just because they like to have fun making music and cheering on the buckeyes. I really enjoy playing my trumpet, and the athletic band gives me the opportunity to perform without the major time commitment that is required to be a part of the marching band. Plus, I had the opportunity to be a part of “The Incomparable” Script Ohio!
