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UW defense remembers ‘bad taste’ of last season’s loss to Cal, but not focusing on revenge this time around

By Alec Dietz The Daily After being asked to recollect their memories and feelings from a 12-10 loss to California last year, the No. 14 Washington football team’s players each took a moment to prepare an answer.

The pause was palpable with each player tasked with answering the question.

“We didn’t play to our standard,” senior Benning Potoa’e managed. “We lost. It left a bad taste in my mouth. That’s what I remember.”

It was a dark day for the Huskies (1-0), who had been just barely grasping to a lead throughout most of the game until the fourth quarter, when an offensive mishap put the Dawgs down late, and they couldn’t recover.

“We started off slow, and then we blinked and it was too late,” junior Elijah Molden said. “We have got to bring it to them right away, right off the jump. They are a good team, so we need to

be good, we need to be prepared and make some plays happen.”

However, the UW gets to see the Golden Bears (1-0) early in Week 2 this season after a lateseason matchup a year ago, and they’ve circled this team as an early test on their schedule after their defeat in 2018.

Yet, they’re avoiding calling this game a “revenge” match.

“They are a good opponent, and we want this one a little more than other ones,” Molden said. “But we’re focused on this year and we’re focused on us.”

The Huskies made it clear this week in prep for the Bears that the focus was, as always, on them and their preparation.

But another thing kept creeping into the conversation. After securing no turnovers a year ago against California and the game’s defining play coming in the form of a pick-six by the Bear’s Evan Weaver, the Huskies couldn’t muster a turnover against Eastern Washington last week as well.

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UW defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake laughs as he instructs his defensive backs before Washington’s season opener against Eastern Washington Aug. 31, 2019.

“It was a good defensive battle,” junior corner Keith Taylor said of the matchup last year. “They got turnovers and we didn’t, but we’re hoping to change that.”

It’s true, the Washington defense did their job fairly well last season and have held the Bears to zero offensive touchdowns in their last two meetings.

But, forcing turnovers has been a defensive emphasis since Chris Petersen took over as head coach six years ago, and this year is no different, even early in the season.

The Huskies nearly had a chance against the Eagles last week when redshirt freshman Dominique Hampton had his

hands on a ball thrown by Eric Barriere but saw the ball fall through his fingers with 80 yards of green grass in front of him.

“We know our job on defense is to score, and if we can’t score, we’re securing the ball for our offense and getting the ball back,” defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake said. “That was a critical moment right there, and everyone on our defense knows he should have had that. And now, we just have to continue on having better hands, make sure we’re snatching it out of the sky and making sure we’re focused on the crosshairs.”

Against an offense that doesn’t like to take a lot of risks and is going to wear you down

in the trenches, the Huskies are especially focused on trying to force that game-changing turnover on their end this Saturday.

They couldn’t do it last year, and it cost them in a close defensive battle that didn’t go their way.

Under the confines of their own house at Husky Stadium at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, Washington is looking to flip the script.

“We’re always going to look back and learn from our mistakes,” Lake said.

Then he added, “and the good things we did.”

Reach Sports Editor Alec Dietz at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @AlecDietz

Conor Courtney The Daily Washington’s defensive line gets set before a Eastern Washington offensive snap Aug. 31, 2019. The Huskies were able to generate four sacks in their season opener against the Eagles.

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Wellington stepping up to new role as starter and leader

By Josh Kirshenbaum The Daily Going into last Saturday, the No. 14 Washington football team had just one man with starting experience in its middle linebacker corps. The Huskies graduated 85% of their tackles in 2018, most notably having to move on from Ben Burr-Kirven’s FBS-leading 176 and Tevis Bartlett’s 72 — second-best for the UW. But senior Brandon Wellington — the lone Husky with a start going into 2019 — isn’t expecting any drop-off.

“I feel like the standard is still the same,” Wellington said. “If not, we raised it. Just competing to that level that Ben and Tevis left it. Husky Nation is all like, ‘How are we going to come back and replace all that?’ But I feel like we’re starting a good roll. I feel like we’re in a good spot.”

Washington’s 47-14 win over Eastern Washington was the third start of Wellington’s career; he started the Pac-12

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championship and the Rose Bowl after the coaches moved Bartlett back to the outside.

Now one of the only two upperclassmen in the room, Wellington has taken on more of a leadership role. But he’s also getting used to getting starter’s minutes.

Wellington didn’t light up the stats sheet against the Eagles, finishing with two tackles, but on the whole, he was happy with the game, both for himself and his group.

“It feels good to finally show what we’ve been working on all year in the summer and the winter and the spring, and going out there and playing,” Wellington said.

Back in 2016, Wellington was one of just four true freshmen to start in the UW’s season opener against Rutgers. He played in every game that year, and all but one game in 2017, but a torn ACL in the Apple Cup kept him sidelined for the bowl game, the entire offseason, and the first four games of 2018.

Now he’s leading the group next to senior Kyler Manu, another experienced face getting the first real shot at extended playing time in his career. Manu finished with seven solo tackles this past Saturday, tied for the team lead in his first college start.

“Everybody had first-game jitters, had a couple mistakes here and there,” defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake said.

“But I thought Kyler Manu played one of his best games

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Conor Courtney The Daily Senior Brandon Wellington participates in a drill during Washington’s fall camp in Dempsey Indoor Aug. 5, 2019. Wellington finished with two tackles in his season debut against Eastern Washington. since he’s been there, and [Wellington] played strong.”

The senior middle linebackers led a defensive effort that held Eastern Washington to just 63 yards on the ground and Eagles’ starting tailback Antoine Custer

Jr. to 1.7 yards per rush.

“I felt a sense of chemistry, a sense of urgency between us,” Wellington said. “We’re playing at a high level. I feel like if we can continue that, and string

that along all season long, we’re in a good spot.”

Reach Managing Editor Josh Kirshenbaum at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @J_Kirshenbaum

3-2-1, football: The Daily’s primer on Cal

By Evan Wong The Daily Coming off their season opening victory against Eastern Washington, the Washington football team will now square off against California in its first Pac-12 matchup of the year. Let’s take a closer look at the keys and figures of the Huskies’ first conference opponent of the 2019 season.

3 numbers to know 4: Although they beat UC Davis

27-13 last week, the Golden Bears (1-0) turned the ball over four times. The offense committed three turnovers while special teams was responsible for another. Sophomore quarterback Chase Garbers and the rest of the Golden Bears’ offense were sloppy with the football and will look to clean up ball security in their second game of the year.

11: Senior linebacker Evan

Weaver racked up 11 tackles in Cal’s first game. Prior to the start of the season, Weaver earned second-team preseason AllAmerican honors. Cal’s leader on defense was a menace against an outmatched UC Davis squad and has a shot at another doubledigit tackle total against the UW this week.

197: Sophomore running back Christopher Brown Jr. tallied

197 rushing yards on 36 carries to go along with a rushing touchdown in Cal’s season opener. Patrick Laird led the Golden Bears’ backfield last year, but Brown put together an impressive performance on the ground in Week 1. After being used sparingly during the 2018 regular season, he got 14 carries against TCU in the Cheez-It Bowl.

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1 recap of last game Cal got off to an awful start in their home opener against UC Davis. On the opening kickoff, senior safety and kick returner Ashtyn Davis fumbled the ball.

Following the turnover, the Aggies took advantage of a short field and scored a touchdown.

After a punt on the Golden Bears’ next offensive possession, Garbers threw an interception.

UC Davis would take a 10-0 lead before Cal responded with a six-play, 87-yard drive that ended with a Garbers touchdown pass to Crawford. The Golden Bears added two field goals before the end of the first half and headed into halftime with a 13-10 advantage.

During its first possession of the third quarter, UC Davis tacked on a field goal to even the score at 13-13. After this score, the Cal defense would not

allow any more points the rest of the game. Brown rushed for a touchdown from five yards out, and Crawford added another receiving touchdown as Cal went on to win 27-13.

Reach reporter Evan Wong at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @evan_wong29

Chase Garbers - QB

Following a 2018 campaign where he appeared in 12 games and started 10, sophomore quarterback Chase Garbers threw for a career-high 238 yards in Cal’s season-opening win against UC Davis. Garbers tossed two touchdown passes to junior wide receiver Kekoa Crawford. However, he struggled with accuracy in the first game of the season and only completed 57% of his passes.

Luc Bequette - DT

Senior nose tackle Luc Bequette is the only Golden Bear with a blocked kick to his credit in his career. Bequette made his mark in Cal’s 2019 opener as he registered five tackles, one sack, and one forced fumble. The veteran has started 25 games for the Golden Bears the past two years.

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California linebacker Evan Weaver in pursuit in the Golden Bears’ 27-13 victory over UC Davis last weekend. The senior finished with 11 tackles in the win.

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Hunter Bryant’s next step is a full season of dominance

By Josh Kirshenbaum The Daily For Hunter Bryant, it’s the little things.

You know, like moving.

“Just being able to walk and do simple things sometimes,” Bryant said. “I’ll be walking down the stairs, and be like, ‘I remember when I was on crutches, this is such a huge improvement.’ Every time I come on the field I’m just really thankful.”

After emerging as one of Washington’s top pass-catching options as a true freshman — with a coming-out performance against Cal, coincidentally — Bryant’s first year on Montlake ended abruptly with a season-ending knee injury in October. The pain never really went away, and in June, he ended up needing surgery, putting out an Instagram post of his leg in a brace to let everyone know he’d be out for an extended period of time.

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Personally, I love leading by example.

I feel like if they just see me go out and be calm and do what I do … they’ll just follow the lead.

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From there, the rehab process began anew.

“I just wanted to come in here and make as big an improvement in one day as I could,” Bryant said.

“Then just repeat that, day after day.”

But as the Huskies took the field in August for training camp, he had to deal with being off the field and not practicing as his teammates got going.

“I think for [Bryant], it was a little more of a mental game,” tight ends coach Jordan Paopao said. “Just being able to really, truly focus on his assignments, being able to study coverages and defensive football, and grow just a little more of the periphery knowledge of the game of football.

While he wasn’t getting physical reps, he was getting a lot of mental reps.”

Meanwhile, instead of doing his physical work with his fellow tight ends, Bryant was going through physical therapy with the other Huskies working on coming back from injuries. He said that during that process, injured players — he specifically named wideout Quinten Pounds and linebacker Brandon Wellington, two Huskies returning from torn ACLs — formed their own group, leaning on each other to get through it all.

“It’s hard not being able to go out there and run and do what you want to do,” Wellington said.

“You’re watching you brothers and taking mental reps, and watching them do it over and over again. It’s hard to go through that process,

Conor Courtney The Daily Junior tight end Hunter Bryant missed significant time last season with a left knee injury, but still finished near the top statistically for the Huskies in receptions and receiving yards.

Conor Courtney The Daily In his season debut, junior tight end Hunter Bryant finished with six receptions and 81 yards against Eastern Washington on Aug. 31. Bryant was among four Washington players to finish with five or more receptions.

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‘I’m just really thankful’ and I’m not knocking anybody that’s gone through it.

“We did lean on each other at times. If he’s down, I’m going to pick him up. If I’m down, he’s going to pick me up.”

Paopao described Bryant’s process of rehabbing as “kind of a blessing in disguise,” as it gave Washington’s younger tight ends more chances to get game reps.

One of those younger guys was Cade Otton, who came in with Bryant as a true

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He’s a great player, so being able to play with him and play off of each others’ strengths, it was really fun.

Playing on Saturday was a lot of fun, and we’re going to continue to build off of that.

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freshman in 2017 but redshirted his first season with the Huskies.

In Bryant’s absence, Otton moved into the No. 2 tight end spot next to then-senior Drew Sample. He finished the season with 174 receiving yards and three touchdowns on the field. Off of it, he spent training camp and the beginning of the season building his relationship with Bryant and keeping his injured teammate in the game mentally.

“I think when you’re injured, it’s easy to be disconnected,” Otton said. “When you’re rehabbing all of the time, you’re focused on that a lot. Just being able to talk about football and keep him engaged.

And he did a really good job of that, and that’s a credit to him for being locked in.”

Bryant ended up making his goal, returning to the field in Week 10 with a catch against Stanford. He played in five games, and despite missing nearly twothirds of the season, the 253 receiving

yards he finished with were fifth on the team at the end of the year.

“That was my personal goal,” Bryant said. “I kind of made my mission to come back and not miss the whole season. I was able to do it, so I was pretty happy with myself.”

Nine months after the Rose Bowl — after spring ball, summer work, and training camp — Bryant took the field against Eastern Washington, going into Week 1 with health and game experience for the first time in his career.

The junior tight end led the Huskies with six catches for 81 yards against the Eagles. It’s the fifth game in his career that he’s led the team in either receptions or receiving yards.

“It was a lot of fun,” Otton said. “He’s a great player, so being able to play with him and play off of each others’ strengths, it was really fun. Playing on Saturday was a lot of fun, and we’re going to continue to build off of that.”

Now with that experience of overcoming a major injury, and with Sample the latest UW tight end to move on to the NFL, Bryant has taken the lead within the young group.

This time around, he gets to do so from the field.

“Personally, I love leading by example,” Bryant said. “I feel like if they just see me go out and be calm and do what I do … they’ll just follow the lead.”

First though, is the matter of this season. For Bryant, it’s all about putting a full season together for the first time in his career. He’s trying to become a more complete tight end, improving his run-blocking to follow in the footsteps of Sample and Will Dissly. In Jacob Eason’s first year as the starting quarterback, he’s trying to become a No. 1 option in the passing game.

And come the end of the season, Bryant is projected to be one of the top tight end prospects in next year’s NFL draft and could become the first UW offensive player to leave early since John Ross in 2016.

You know, little steps.

Reach Managing Editor Josh Kirshenbaum at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @J_Kirshenbaum

File Photo Hunter Bryant makes a one-handed catch in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1, 2019. An accomplished prep tight end at local Eastside Catholic, Bryant contributed right away for the Huskies in 2017 when he caught 22 passes for 331 yards as a true freshman.

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Deep dive into Cal game last year reveals a need for aggressive WRs

By Alec Dietz The Daily

were on the attack, with the Huskies reacting to what the defense was doing. It resulted in a dismal day that As you could expect, the Washington the Huskies have not forgotten about, football team’s 12-10 loss to California but have moved on from. Washington last season doesn’t sit quite well with recognizes the challenge that the the UW offense. Especially with the Cal defense brings, returning just wide receivers. about every starter on their defense.

Just three Washington wideouts As they head into the early season caught passes in the defensive slugfest, rematch, however, they are focusing on and most of those catches were in the what they can control and their own game’s early moments. execution on the field.

After a 15-play drive that included While Hamdan had looked at the several third and fourth down game film often to conversions and change his approach a penalty that set from a coordinator them up with a firststandpoint, his and-goal situation, I think every single receivers have mostly the Huskies found day from that day revisited the game the end zone on film this week. on, no offseasons their opening drive “I have this week,” against the Golden and no summer, Fuller said watching Bears. They were we’ve made it a game film of last year. even driving on their “Besides that, not second before an plan to be on the much, you have to interception halted attack this year. move on from losses their offense for like that. This week pretty much the rest we watched a lot of the game. of that film, what I After that second did wrong, what the drive, the offense offense did wrong, just things to fix to went cold, as the wideouts only carry over to this game. contributed three more catches in “Just a lot of bad plays, whether the game’s last three quarters. After that’s a loss of yards, penalties, things that game, offensive coordinator Bush like that that killed us in the red zone Hamdan watched his fair share of and the middle of the field. We couldn’t game film from that day. get in there and score and turnovers “I think every single day from that and things like that stalled us out.” day on, no offseasons and no summer, Senior receiver Andre Baccellia, we’ve made it a plan to be on the attack who actually led the Huskies with this year and we hope to do that,” four catches and also contributed 40 Hamdan said. yards, noted the small mistakes the But why that particular game? Why UW made. Whether it was running that game against Cal? Certainly the Huskies had offensive struggles in their particular plays into certain coverages, slipping up on their routes, or just flat losses to Auburn, Oregon, and Ohio out dropping passes, Baccellia thinks State as well, but the Cal game stuck that cleaning up those small mistakes in UW’s second-year OC’s head, for will go a long way. multiple reasons.

“We just have to go out there and “We certainly took a deep, deep execute, compete our asses off, and dive into that game last year,” Hamdan we’ll be fine,” Baccellia said. said. “We certainly have to take more chances. I really felt like we were just reaction, and our biggest push this year Reach Sports Editor Alec Dietz at sports@dailyuw.com. has been to be on the attack.”

Twitter: @AlecDietz After that first drive, it was the Golden Bear defensive backs who

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Aaron Fuller tries to break a tackle during the Huskies’ 47-14 season-opening win over Eastern Washington at Husky Stadium Aug. 31, 2019. Fuller finished with five catches for two touchdowns and 73 yards.

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NO. 10 Auburn In the only real marquee matchup of Week 1, the Tigers came roaring back to topple Oregon and prove that, once again, the SEC is just better than everyone else. Going into the week, Auburn was the fifth-ranked SEC team and the Ducks sat atop the Pac-12. Yikes. Freshman Bo Nix was far from perfect in his first collegiate start but showed great control of the game when mounting the Tiger comeback.

NO. 17 Wisconsin Remember Jonathon Taylor? The guy who was supposed to be in the Heisman conversation last year but barely eclipsed his freshman year production? Well he’s back, and in a big way. He ran all over USF for 135 yards and four touchdowns, and led his team to a 49-0 victory. Look out for the Badgers to make some noise in a wide-open Big 10 West.

NO. 24 Boise State I’m not sure if its Week 1 matchup was more of a showcase of Boise State’s strengths or an indictment of Florida State’s mediocrity. But give credit where credit is due. The Broncos have now been ranked in every season since 2001, which is impressive for school outside of a Power Five conference. Running back Robert Mahone looks like he could be giving defenses fits all autumn long after posting 142 yards and two touchdowns in his season debut.

NO. 14 Washington The Huskies dropped a spot because No. 13 Utah leapfrogged them, which makes sense since the Utes had a more quality win in their game against BYU. But there’s no need to panic as the Huskies answered two big questions: how strong their defense would be and how good Jacob Eason’s play would be at quarterback. Granted they played FCS Eastern Washington, but Washington did not give anyone a reason to doubt it yet in 2019.

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NO. 16 Oregon The Ducks were the only ranked team to lose in Week 1 of the college football season, though it was against the toughest competition. Oregon had a chance to capture a signature win for itself and for the Pac-12 at large but lost in the final seconds. The Ducks still have a talented roster led by Justin Herbert, but they have to be perfect for the rest of the year to even sniff a chance at the College Football Playoff.

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NO. 11 Florida It’s really hard to judge a team entirely on a Week 1 performance, let alone a Week 0 performance, but the Gators did not look all too impressive. Many believed this team would be a dark horse SEC contender, and they still could be, but they’re going to need a lot of improvement to sit at the big kid’s table come conference play. Feleipe Franks may need to tap into another level and have a more demanding presence on the field to bring this team to where it needs to be.

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Kirshenbaum: Is the youth movement here to stay on Montlake?

By Josh Kirshenbaum The Daily The section on the No. 14 Washington football team’s media guide notes is simply titled “Youth.”

The stat it describes is simple, yet more than a little mindboggling: of the 106 players on the UW roster, 55 — over half — are either true or redshirt freshmen.

In the UW’s season-opening win against Eastern Washington, the youth showed up. Ten true freshmen saw the field, along with 16 redshirt freshmen.

In all of 2018, the Huskies played just 20 freshmen — 10 true and 10 redshirt.

But it’s not just how many freshmen got to see the field; it’s how so many could get to do so regularly.

In 2018, none of the true freshmen started a game, or played enough to burn a redshirt. This year, that trend is already starting to shift after a good — and deep — Week 1, especially on defense.

“I think we had some ups and downs, some good plays and some bad plays,” defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake said.

“The nice thing was we got a bunch of freshmen out there playing, at linebacker, at D-line,

at defensive back.”

Chris Petersen has already said that the coaching staff expects to play a handful of true freshmen regularly, and Saturday on defense showed why.

Cameron Williams got the start at safety — Washington’s first true freshman to start a Week 1 game since Jake Browning in 2015 — and finished with four tackles. Aside from him, two other defensive backs — Trent McDuffie and Asa Turner — got in long before the game got to garbage time.

Around the rest of the defense, Saturday showed just how much of Washington’s depth is going to be made up of redshirt freshmen.

On the defensive line, Tuli Letuligasenoa and Sam Taimani were 40% of the five-man rotation the Huskies used most of the game. At linebacker, MJ Tafisi and Jackson Sirmon combined for eight tackles. In the secondary, Kyler Gordon earned his first career start, and Dominique Hampton was the first corner off the bench.

“They know that’s what the standard is around here,” Lake said. “That’s how our defense plays, and we’ve got to continue to put that on tape. It’s not just going to happen. They’ve watched the guys before them that were in their shoes, and they watched how fast and

how physical they played, and they know that’s the expectation if they’re out there.”

The youth movement extended to the offense, though maybe to a bit of a lesser extent.

When Nick Harris went down with an injury, it was redshirt freshman Matteo Mele replacing him at center. Later, Victor Curne got action at right tackle; with Henry Bainivalu out, he could Conor Courtney The Daily be Washington’s second man off the Washington’s Myles Rice and Cameron Williams try to take down Eastern’s Eric bench after Henry Barriere during the Huskies’ 47-15 season opening win over Eastern Washington Roberts. at Husky Stadium Aug. 31, 2019.

And of course, next game against Cal is more make those same mistakes this Richard Newton of a midterm.

Going up against Saturday.” probably had the best day of any a Pac-12 foe, the snaps for freshman, with 91 rushing yards freshmen may dry up a bit. But Reach Managing Editor Josh and a touchdown. all signs point to the Huskies Kirshenbaum “That’s the first real snaps continuing to ride the wave of at sports@dailyuw.com. that he’s had,” Petersen said on youth for the rest of the season.

Twitter: @J_Kirshenbaum Monday. “I think he answered “It’s a growing process,” the bell. I think all this, kind of Lake said. “It was nice to make like you get out of the gate your a couple of mistakes in a win. first game it’s kind of like a quiz, Hopefully we’ll learn from those sort of speak.” mistakes, and then we can make Petersen added that if the some new mistakes and not past Saturday was a quiz, this

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67th Annual Band Day brings HMB drum major back to the beginning

By Andy Yamashita The Daily When Denali Cornwell reflects back on his first Band Day as a high schooler, he mostly remembers being awestruck by it all.

He was awe-struck by the size of the event, the musicality, the marching ability, and the organization of the Husky Marching Band. Most of all though, he was stunned by the fact that it was all happening at the University of Washington.

“It’s not like I wasn’t aware of high-level marching bands,” Cornwell said. “It was just cool that it existed here in the Northwest and that I could be a part of it.”

Now, he’s gone full circle.

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nearby Ballard High School, Cornwell spent his first two years at the UW on the drumline.

Last year, he fulfilled his dream, becoming one of three drum majors for the Husky Marching Band, the position he’d coveted since his first Band Day experience years ago.

Entering his second year spinning the baton, Cornwell, along with the rest of Husky Marching Band, will welcome 2,800 marching band students from 33 local high schools to perform in the 67th Annual Band Day this Saturday when the No. 14 Washington football team takes on California.

“I just really want to impress upon them that this band exists,” Cornwell said. “You can have this kind of sound and you can really be this good here in the Northwest. You don’t have to go to the Midwest for great marching band. You don’t have to go to the South for great marching band. You can still have a great marching band experience here.

I really hope to inspire kids to come to UW and participate in college band.”

According to Director of Athletic Bands Dr. Brad McDavid, it’s a tradition that dates back farther than any other in the history of the program — older than rally, drumline warm-up, and the

Conor Courtney The Daily High school marching bands from across the state line up for their Band Day performance at Husky Stadium on Sept. 16, 2017. national anthem flagpole formation. McDavid also believes it’s one of their most important.

“For many high school students, it’s their introduction to the University of Washington,” he said. “We’ve got 33 high school bands from all over the state attending the game and

they’ll be gathering with the Husky Band out on the field at halftime and we’ll all perform together.”

McDavid says the idea to bring in high school groups started because of the quarter system. With college football starting a solid month before

students arrive on campus in Seattle, back in the 1950s, the marching band didn’t have enough members present to perform for the first few games.

Instead, four local high schools were selected every year to play part of their halftime show, but soon after, so many

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bands were interested that there simply wasn’t enough time for every group to play. The directors then switched to a mass band format which they still use to this day.

Currently, the Husky Marching Band fills its ranks with alumni for the first few games of the season. However, once per year they invite high schools to join them for a mass performance. McDavid considers it their best recruiting event of the year.

“Usually about half the freshman class, and consequently half the band, attended our Band Day at some point in their high school years,” McDavid said.

McDavid sends the music to the participating high schools in June, and they only get about a day’s worth of rehearsals with the Husky Marching Band before they perform in front of 70,000 fans in Husky Stadium.

Back before the stadium was remodeled in 2013, the Husky Marching Band was able to host up to 3,200 high school students for Band Day since they could be staged on the track around the stadium. Now, they have to turn some groups down because they don’t have the space.

And that’s not the event’s only difficulty. This year’s Band Day falls a few weeks earlier than normal.

“Most of the participating bands just started school this week, so hopefully they’ve had a chance to at least look at the music,” McDavid said with a laugh.

But Band Day isn’t just good for Husky Marching Band. Many of the high school directors see benefits to bringing their groups out too.

Gary Grams has been the director of South Kitsap High School’s band program for the last 18 years, and he estimates that they’ve only missed Band Day once or twice over the last two decades.

“So much of the push in high school is to have the kids college or career ready,” he said. “Just having access to watch the band perform, watch them interact with the cheerleaders and football players. It really gives kids an idea about what the next step looks like.”

Grams said he’s had several of his students go on to join Husky Marching Band including new drum major Alex Aanesen. A third-year student at the UW, Aanesen is originally from Norway and spent a year at South Kitsap High as an exchange student. While there, he went to

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Band Day and after finishing his high school diploma in Norway, he returned to the Pacific Northwest, partly to join the Husky Marching Band.

And though Grams doesn’t know for sure if Band Day helped convince Aanesen to come back, he echoed some of Cornwell’s sentiments about the Husky Marching Band’s local importance as an inspiration for high school band students.

“UW is the only one in the area — besides that school on the other side of the state — that has a program large enough to do a big show,” Grams said. “A lot of my kids go to UW or WSU because they want to do marching band. It’s a big draw for them.”

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Cornwell just wants to set a good example at this upcoming Band Day because he knows a future Husky Marching Band drum major — the next Cornwell, the next Aanesen — might be there watching.

“I just want to provide the same setting that I was given when I went to Band Day,” he said.

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