Nick Lynes - Assistant Director
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Bio coming soon.
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Ginger Armstrong is a native of Houston, TX, and a graduate of Auburn University with a BS in Math Education. She has 35 years of experience in dance and color guard, and won two Drum Corps International World Championships as a performing member of the Spirit of Atlanta color guard. She was one of three "Charter Staff Members" for the Northgate High School Program and served as the founding director of the color guard program. She has also served as an instructor and consultant for bands and drum corps in Japan as well as serving as a consultant and adjudicator nationwide.
As an instructor, her guards have a string of 29 straight years of superior ratings and have received numerous championship honors on both regional and national levels. Her guard at East Coweta High School performed as part of the Opening Ceremonies for the 1996 Olympic Games. The Northgate Winterguard program has been recognized as Southeastern Color Guard Circuit (SCGC) and Southern Association of Perfoming Arts (SAPA) Gold Medalist, Silver Medalist or Bronze Medalist on 10 different occasions, have been recognized as WGI Regional Championship Gold Medalist on four different occasions and achieved finalist status at WGI World Championships on two different occasions. She was one of the founders of SAPA and served as the Vice President for Color Guard for two years, Secretary for one year and President of the entire Association for one year. She was recognized by this organization with their "Hall of Fame Award" in the 2009 season. She now serves as a Contest Administrator for Winter Guard International. Ginger received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Auburn University, her Master's degree in Mathematics Education from Western Governors University, and is currently pursuing her Ed.S. in Instructional Design and Technology from West Georgia University. She served for 14 years as a math teacher in Coweta County schools before accepting a teaching position with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in their school program in 2009. After 11 years as an Educational Advocate and Family Services Supervisor at Children's, she returned to Coweta County Schools in 2020, where she currently teaches math at Winston Dowdell Academy. She is married to Alan Armstrong, the Director of Bands at Northgate. They reside in Newnan, Georgia and are the proud parents of Caitlin, Kelsey, Ryan and Emily, all four honor graduates and alumni of Northgate High School and the Band Program. |
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'Kelsey Armstrong is a native of Newnan, GA, and a graduate of Northgate High School. She was a 5 year member of the Northgate Winter Guard, and a 4 year member of the Northgate Marching Band, competing as part of the 2009 silver medalist and 2011 gold medalist winter guards, as well as the 2010 2-time grand champion marching band. Immediately following her graduation from Northgate, Kelsey performed with Atlanta CV Drum and Bugle Corps, and was a 3 year member of the color guard, including the 2017 DCA World Champion color guard. Kelsey was the Color Guard Director at Northside High School in Columbus, GA in 2013, and worked as a choreographer and camp clinician for bands across the state of Georgia before returning as a full time member of the Northgate color guard staff in 2016.
Kelsey received her Bachelor's Degree in Choral Music Education from Columbus State University, her Master's Degree in Choral Music Education through the University of North Texas, and is currently pursuing her Ed.S. in Music Education from Auburn University. She is the choir director at Bass Middle School, in Newnan, GA. In only the 2nd year of the school, the Bass Middle School Chorus was selected to sing at the 2023 GMEA Music Educators Conference in Athens, GA. |
Emily Armstrong - Color Guard Staff
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Emily Armstrong is a native of Newnan, Georgia, and a proud alumna of the Northgate Colorguard program. Emily was a member of the Northgate Colorguard and Winterguard for the 2012-2016 seasons, and was a member of the 2015 SAPA Gold Medalist winterguard. Following her graduation Emily went on to march with Reverie Open (2017), Reverie A (2018), and the 2019 WGI Open Class silver medalist winterguard, Paramount Open. Emily was also a part of the 2017 DCA World Champion colorguard, as well as a member of the 2019 DCI Finalist Crossmen Colorguard. Emily served as the colorguard director at Locust Grove High School and Mount Zion High School (Carrollton) prior to joining the Northgate staff in 2019. Emily has served as the primary choreographer and technician for the Northgate colorguard since their 2020 seasons, and works with bands across the country to provide virtual fundamental colorguard instruction and choreography.
Emily will soon graduate from Western Governor’s University with her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Educational Studies, and plans to pursue a masters in special education, as well as a doctorate in Educational Psychology. Emily’s goal as an instructor is to provide students with a positive learning experience, and the tools needed to gain confidence in themselves through colorguard performance. |
Ryan Armstrong - Percussion Director
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Ryan is a Northgate High School class of 2016 graduate who was a 4 year member of the Northgate Marching Band, 2 year member of the Northgate Indoor Percussion Ensemble, 2 year member of the Concert Percussion Ensemble, 4 year member of the Northgate Jazz Band, and 3 year member of Advanced Symphonic Band.
Immediately following high school, he marched Atlanta CV for four consecutive seasons, three of those placing in the top three overall and 2nd in Percussion. He also marched one year with CV Indoor and 2 years at Q2, both being GIPA Open Class Champions and WGI World Championship Semi-Finalists each time. He marched with Audio Theater in WGI World Class for the portion of the 2020 season that was able to be held and Atlanta Quest in 2022. He has also been teaching since the year immediately following high school graduation. He has taught at Alexander High School, Mount Zion High School, Sonoraville High School, Chestatee High School, and at Northgate since 2019. |
David Carroll - Percussion Staff
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Bio Coming Soon
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