NSBA – West Festival – Kearney High School
2025:
NSBA Kearney will be on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. We have several changes this year due to construction on the South end of the school. Check back here for updated information.
Click and Print: bit.ly/nsba25kearney – this is the two page Pit Area Procedure sheet for the pit and parking areas.
Click and Print: NSBA 2025 Pit Area Schedule Full Sheet
For our KHS Pit Crew:
The Band will have an 11:00 am – 12:00 pm rehearsal on the KHS field. They plan to do a full run-through of the show soon after 11:30 am. You are invited to come to the KHS field and watch this run-through of the show from the stadium. You have been on the field most or all of the marching season, and this is an opportunity for the pit crew to watch the show from the stands. Join us.
By 7:30 pm please report to the Band room so that by no later than 7:50 we can start and help push equipment to the staging area by the main entrance of the school. We need to have everything at the Pit Staging Area at the North end by 8:00 pm, ready to go, so we can go on deck at 8:15, and perform at 8:30 pm. After the performance we will ‘park’ our equipment at the northwest corner of the track.
After UNK performs, we will participate and have fun with Pit Crew Olympics. We need to bring several teams to the Olympics. This is a fun time to cheer on our guests and enjoy the Olympics together with pit crew from other schools. UNK performs at 8:45 before the Pit Olympics, and the Awards are at 9:15 pm
After awards we cleanup and help get our equipment back to the Band room and we also put carts and podiums and uniform carts in the trailer for off-season storage. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Remember to wear BLUE to support our Band.
Also, remember that we represent KHS Band, KHS and the city of Kearney as we host this event. Help us make our guests feel welcome and help them enjoy their visit. This is a great event for us to host.
Thank you for all of your help this year. We appreciate each and every one of you who have helped on the Pit Crew team, if it was for every event or for just one night, you are appreciated very much!
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Click and Print: NSBA 2025 Pit Area Schedule Full Sheet
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2024 Maps and Site Plans. These should return in 2026.
NSBA 2024 Site Plan:
NSBA Pit Area Plan:
NSBA Guest Map:
NSBA Guest Parking Map:
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Pit Crew Olympics
Each school may form as many teams as they desire, but team members may not participate on multiple teams. Teams are made up of 4 or 5 members of Pit Crew volunteers. Be prepared to carry, push, setup, stack, and run to match the best time. Most of all, have fun!
Previous Pit Crew Olympics Champions
| Year | 1A / 2A | 3A / 4A / 5A |
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| 2025 | Who will it be? | Will it be your team? |
| 2024 | Minden | Columbus |
| 2023 | Ogallala | Columbus |
| 2022 | Wayne | Hastings |
| 2021 | ? | Kearney Color Guard Dads |
| 2019 | ? | Kearney |
| 2018 | ? | Hastings |
2021 – 1st Group / 2021 – 2nd Group
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Click & Print PitCrew Olympics Setup.
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Date: October 26, 2024
Subject: Street Closure for Nebraska State Bandmasters Event
The City of Kearney, on behalf of Kearney High School Band, would like to inform the public of a street closure scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Closure Details:
- Location: 30th Avenue on the west side of Kearney High School
- Time: 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Affected Area: 30th Avenue from 11th Street to the southwest entrance of the West KHS parking lot
During this time, there will be significant bus traffic in the west parking lot and along 30th Avenue, as well as increased foot traffic from students and attendees of the Nebraska State Bandmasters event. The West KHS parking lot will also be closed from 12:00 am to 11:00 pm on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Motorist Advisory:
Due to the expected heavy traffic volume, we encourage all motorists to seek alternate routes to avoid delays. Many buses and out of town guests will be in the Kearney High School area for this event. Your cooperation is appreciated as we support this important event for the participating students and their communities.
Thank you for your understanding and patience.
For any questions or concerns, please contact the City of Kearney office
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Setup Checklist
- Get Horse panels from Fairgrounds (pick up Thurs or Fri evening) – need a pin as it is a farm hitch (no ball)
- KSD 3-bar barricades – 2 at each entrance – will be moved to northbound lanes once event starts and remove after event is finished
- KSD sawhorse barricades – blocking entrance and exit to pit and bus parking lots
- KSD cones – use as needed at each street entrance/exit
- All three types of barricades need to be set in place by 5:50 am. Note license plate and permit numbers of any vehicles still on the lot and report to LeFeber/Mitchell by 8:00 am so we can give them the option to come get their vehicles by 9:30 am or be towed.
- Horse Panels – go from front door on sidewalk out to drive. Then put panels from SE corner of parking lot toward west on the grass, to the walk crossing. (The pennant rope will be used between these two sections) (2025)
- Install the Delineators along the sidewalk between the east and west horse panels – run the pennant rope along the delineators.
- Vinyl signs – 1 at NW corner intersection, 1 at east entrance (Spectators), 1 east of east entrance – 2 steel posts per sign plus zip ties (avoid water lines)
- Tall Orange cones – blocking north warmup areas – 2 in each entrance, extras go down center east/west line – use stadium rope to help mark this area – use 4 blue disc-posts from SE corner of track to hold rope
- 1 Tall Orange cone on east side at the drive/walk between the parking lot and the sidewalk to the entrance
- Park Theatre trailer2 by SE corner of warm-up area for the band escorts to use
- Install the Feather Flag by the west big K for the guest bands entrance for restroom/concessions/stadium
- Move the small trailer from the performing band entrance to the gym (2025 only). If possible, move this to the SW gym corner sidewalk
- Mount the Welcome / Entrance sign on the hose panel near the main entrance by the big K door on the east side main entrance.
- Put west yard signs up: Bus Entrance – 1 at entrance, 1 across the street. Bus Exit – at south end of lanes. Shuttle pickup/dropoff
- Put east yard signs up: Pit Truck/Trailer entrance – at entrance, Spectator Entrance signs – leading to east front door
- Football field: move black track mats – fold them and drag them under the stadium to keep the entrances open
- Carefully remove the watering setup – move it to under the stadium
- Unhook hoses and move them out of walkway – remove the tripping hazard
- Move benches and tables off the east and west sides of the field
- Short Travel Cones: 1 at Pit On-Deck entrance, 1 at Staging line, 4 on south endzone to cover the cables (trip hazard), 4 on north endzone to cover cables (mark trip hazard)
- Put up traffic direction signs under stadium (2025)
- Make sure restroom in track shed are open/unlocked
- Make sure the NE stadium gate is unlocked (leave it closed when approaching start of the event)
- Gators/Golfcarts: 2 Bearcat Gators on west side for parking, 1 Bearcat Golfcart on east side for Pit (2025), 2 UNK golf carts 1 on east, 1 on west side. IF we get an extra golfcart/gator/side-by-side, then the west golf cart can be used by the volunteer support person
- Park Stelling Brass (Jeff Stelling) in the loading dock area
- Park the Photographer in the SW gym sidewalk
- Park the Coffee vendor on the west commons sidewalk near the west commons door
- Park the 911 Ambulance on the west corner by the sidewalk in the east spectator lot – near the crosswalk drive to the entrance sidewalk – the should be facing southeast – this will give them easy exit from the area through the spectator parking lot