The Sudler Trophy is awarded to only one college band every two years. This is the most prestigious award in college marching band and recognizes excellence and innovation in marching band. Most recently, the Pride was the recipient of the 2015 Sudler Trophy. The "Pride" has been recognized by many local and national media, including: The Manhattan Mercury, The Kansas State University Collegian, The Topeka Capital Journal, Purple Pride, The Union Tribune, The K-Stater, and The Lawrence Journal Tribune. In conjunction with that year's Band Day, sixty-seven school bands joined the K-State Band on the field, creating a 3,144 piece marching band, which put them in the book as the world's largest marching band! On Septemthe K-State Band Day was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records. Now attracting approximately 2000 high school and middle school students converging each year on Manhattan, the day-long event includes a morning parade through the center of town and a massed band performance at half time of that afternoon's home football game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. This past year the "Pride" traveled to Arizona with the team for the 2013 Fiesta Bowl!įor decades, a memorable performance each year has been K-State Band Day.
In more recent years, the "Pride of Wildcat Land" has accompanied the K-State football team to eleven consecutive bowl appearances.
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The K-State band performed at the 1974 NFL Pro Bowl and in the 1977 Texas State Fair. They have also performed on three occasions at Texas Stadium for Dallas Cowboys home games and twice at Denver Broncos home games. Occasionally the band travels to perform at a Kansas City Chiefs' home game. The "Pride" has been invited to many out-of-town venues, appearing before huge audiences, both live and on television. The K-State Band has become an integral part of its community and has a rich history of recognition and support at every level: public school directors and students, the K-State student body, faculty, coaches, Athletic Department, and president, local and state government. Having now grown to over 300 members, the K-State band represents our university, the city and community of Manhattan, and the state of Kansas each year at home and across the country at home games, NFL exhibitions, bowl games, parades and festivals, and countless alumni, charity, and community events. The K-State Marching Band made its first appearance with an athletic team in 1898 when it escorted the college's baseball team to a game. The K-State Marching Band, now known to Wildcat fans as the "Pride of the Wildcat Land," has come a great distance in many, many ways. Since its humble beginnings in 1887, Professor Alexander Brown organized fifteen student-musicians into the first band at was then known as Kansas State Agricultural College. K-State Marching Band The Pride of Wildcat Land
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