2025 President's Greeting
 

Welcome to another exciting fall football season with The Pride and the WVU Alumni Band. The past months have been active and momentous: Since spring, we have seen a grass intramural field turn into an AstroTurf surface exactly like the one at the Mylan Puskar Stadium, and we have finally moved band students off the Coliseum parking lot. The ribbon cutting on The Pride Practice Facility and the Don Wilcox Field was held August 29, to coincide with the Alumni Band Gala. Over the months since the groundbreaking, we checked on the progress of the field regularly and posted pictures on social media to help keep members and the community abreast of the positive changes happening. As was our goal, The Pride Practice Facility field was ready before band camp.

The Kickoff to a New Era Gala, held at the WVU Alumni Center, represents months of hard work and collaboration that included committees and individuals across the Alumni Band, the WVU Band office, parents of Pride members, and our friends and sponsors. Despite some challenges during the planning process, the Alumni Band hosted a successful event that will help us support The Pride throughout the year. Regarding one of those efforts, the Events Committee worked tirelessly to host a nice pasta dinner for the members of The Pride on August 12, for which the hungry students were quite gracious, as always. Kudos to the Fundraising and Events committees and the many supporters involved for pulling off two major events within 17 days.

Mark your calendars, because Homecoming is on the horizon: October 24-25! You will be receiving more information soon, but I hope to see you in our ranks on Friday at the parade and party and at the WVU-TCU football game’s pregame performance.

The success of the WVU Alumni Band depends on us all! I encourage all of you to join a committee, attend meetings, and share your time, talents, and treasure.

See you at Homecoming!

Cindy Woody

President, WVU Alumni Band, Inc.

CindyWoody@wvualumniband.org