PitCrew: Bearcat Marching Festival

Bearcat Marching Festival details for the Kearney Pit Crew.

2025 BMF Info – the 2025 Bearcat Marching Festival will be on Sept. 20, 2025.
Our Pit area will be moved to the Bearcat Blvd horseshoe drive due to construction on the South end of the school.

2025 BMF Pit Crew Plan

For the UNK Band Day Parade, the trailer will not be going to the parade (per the Directors), so students will need to get their own equipment to and from the parade, and we will not need to have anyone at the parade route to load/unload the trailer. This gives us time to be ready for the BMF parking and pit area details.

2025 PitCrew info: For the Bearcat Marching Festival, the Band equipment will be in the KHS Band room. The Band is to assemble at 2:00 pm in the Band room, so our Kearney Pit Crew needs to be available by 1:45 pm to help move all the equipment to the South end of the HS parking lot. We begin staging our pit crew outside the fence at 3:00 pm so we need to start moving equipment from the Band room at 2:45 pm so we are outside on the front sidewalk by 3:00 pm. At 3:15 pm we move our Pit under the stadium (On Deck). We follow Columbus, so when they are On Deck (their Pit is under the stadium), our Pit needs to be in the staging area outside the fence. Be sure to stay on the sidewalk by the offices so that the Columbus band can enter the field and perform. After the Columbus band enters the field, the North Platte Pit will have exited the field and then our KHS Pit will enter under the stadium and be On Deck. Be in the order we enter the field. Remember that this is in reverse order from what we do at UNK for football halftime shows. The pit will be in reverse order of UNK. Once the Pit is set out on the field, we stand back against the front of the stadium while they perform (3:30 pm). After their performance, we will move everything to the Band Room. If you can help with getting equipment to the Band room and with cleanup, that would be appreciated.

2024 BMF Volunteer additional info: If you are helping with the BMF event, you need to stay at your position with the volunteers for the BMF event until we assemble at 3:00 pm. By 3:00 pm please join our KHS Pit Crew for moving our gear for the KHS Band performance. Those not helping with the BMF event will need to help us with moving equipment from the Band room to the Staging area while the BMF volunteers are finishing their tasks. The Parking workers should be done when Columbus buses park, so they should be able to leave their posts sooner and help on pit schedule (if you are done before 1:45, please help move equipment from the Band room to the Staging area). The Pit Area volunteers will need to get North Platte and Columbus on the field and then they can join the KHS Pit to help get KHS on/off the field.

Thank you for your help. We appreciate everyone who is helping. Everyone is needed for this event to happen successfully, both as a BMF volunteer and as a KHS Pit Crew volunteer. Thank you.

Remember to wear BLUE. We represent Kearney – let’s represent well!

Thank you for helping and supporting the KHS Band.
Be sure to make our BMF guests feel welcome. Remember, we represent Kearney in all we do.

Kearney Signup Genius (sign up to help with Pit Crew) link is found on the Band website.

2025 Site Map for the Crew: