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WGI’s 50th Anniversary Series continues with Denise Bonfiglio, WGI Color Guard Chief Judge, joining Trish O’Shea and Sadie Wallace for a conversation spanning the history, growth and future of winter guard.
Denise looks back at the programs and people that helped shape WGI, explains why the promotion system is working, discusses championship waitlists and venue capacity, and takes listeners inside the process that led to her becoming Color Guard Chief Judge. She also traces her work helping shape WGI’s adjudication philosophy, the mentors who influenced her as a judge, and the scale of coordinating roughly 380 winter guard judging assignments.
Presented by Guard Closet.

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