Former Hornet Now Leading Trojan Marching Band: 2012 in Review

Edina Patch covered a lot of different stories, topics and events throughout 2012. That said, there were a few that stood out as the most interesting, important, touching or possibly infamous to our readers.

And as we near the end of 2012, we're looking back at those articles. The following is one of those stories.

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When Keith Yoerg graduated from Edina High School in 2008, he didn't expect to be capping his senior year of college by leading theUniversity of Southern California's Marching Band.

He auditioned to be drum major last year and—following a lengthy voting process—ultimately lost the role in a contest almost too close to call. He auditioned again this year and nailed it, securing his role as the leading man of "Hollywood's Band."

"I'm pretty much the leader of a 300-person marching band," Yoerg said.

Yoerg has been playing trumpet since fifth-grade band, and was a section leader his senior year at EHS. He's sadly going to have to hang the instrument up for his final year at USC, since the drum major has a different role to play.

"My job is going to be to make sure people stay riled up and excited for the game," Yoerg said. "So we give Saturday morning speeches, then there's stabbing the field before the game. That's probably the best part."

Read the remainder of the story here.

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