For the second time in a row, Tara High School won the overall Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) area drill team competition, with Belaire High School and Northeast High School placing 2nd and 3rd in the overall event, which was held December 4 at Belaire High School.  Belaire hosted the drill and color guard competitions, and Woodlawn High School hosted the rifle match.

The JROTC Color Guard Competition and Rifle Match featured several area high schools’ JROTC battalion teams.  Pictured is Belaire High School Principal Robert Webb (left) awarding medals to the Tara High School Color Guard, which won first place in its category.  A detailed list of winners includes:

Color Guard Team winners:
Armed:                                           Unarmed:
Tara HS                1st Place              Belaire HS         1st Place
Scotlandville HS     2nd Place             Tara HS            2nd Place
Belaire HS             3rd Place              Woodlawn HS   3rd Place
 
Drill Team winners:
Armed:                                           Unarmed:
Tara HS                1st Place              Tara HS         1st Place
Woodlawn HS        2nd Place              Belaire HS      2nd Place
Scotlandville HS     3rd Place              Istrouma HS   3rd Place
 
Rifle Team winners:
Zachary HS      1st Place
Northeast HS    2nd Place
Woodlawn HS   3rd Place

For more information, contact Col. Robert Hyver, the school district’s director of Army Instruction,
at (225) 354-4491.