Community and organization
Union High School Bands is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.
Reading the evidence
The reviewed evidence supports Renegade Regiment name since 1980; present as the verified program history. Any newly identified hiatus, reorganization, or successor relationship should be added explicitly rather than assumed.
Questions for further research
A fuller leadership succession, membership history, selected performance chronology, and image provenance would enrich the Union High School Bands packet, but none is required to support its present text-readiness judgment.
People named in related records
Names are retained as recorded in their source contexts.
- Ray Bell — director (1980-1999)
- L. Dale Barnett — head of Union Bands (1983-1999)
- Tony Plank — student participant (1980-1981)
Dated evidence in this record
- 1980 – 1999
The official Union Renegade Regiment history documents the name emerging in 1980 and substantial state, regional, national, guard, and percussion activity across the 1980s and 1990s.
- 1980 – 1999
Union Bands index supports Ray Bell, L. Dale Barnett, and bounded student participant Tony Plank roles.
- 2008 – 2011
Union Renegade Regiment’s official history records 2008 BOA semifinal appearance, 2009 BOA finalist and OBA second-place results, 2010 campaign, and 2011 Grand Nationals appearance.
- 2010 – 2011
Official BOA results record Union scores of 87.15 in the 2010 Grand National finals and 90.80 in the 2011 finals; the same results and regional pages record Owasso’s 77.35 at the 2010 St. Louis Super Regional and Jenks’s 72.50 at the 2011 St. Louis Regional.
- 2025
Union High School Bands placed ninth in the 2025 OBA 6A-1 final with an 85.00 score.