Christina has served as a color guard instructor at West Orange since Fall of 2017. Before West Orange she served as an instructor at Bridgewater-Raritan High School, Arlington High School, Kingston High School, and Roselle Park High school. She also served as color guard director at Somers High School.

Her performance experiences include the Hawthorne Caballeros (2008-2018) and the Sunrisers drum corps (2007). Her winter guard performance experience includes Blessed Sacrament (2010-2014), Emanon(2008), and Q.E.D. (2004, 2006).

Christina is a reading and math teacher for elementary students. She works with students who need small group support at a charter school in Newark.

Stephen, a Massachusetts native currently serves as one of the color guard instructors at Basking Ridge High School in New Jersey as well as a show designer at West Orange High School Stephen has also taught and designed for other programs across Massachusetts and New Jersey.

His performance experiences range from his old High School Marching Band in Tewksbury Massachusetts as a Trumpet player to his colorguard endeavors with St. Johns Open of Beverly Mass as well as Blessed Sacrament World color guard from Cambridge Massachusetts( 2008-2015) and AMP World (2020). He has also performed with Citations from Burlington Massachusetts (2004-2007), The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps ( 2008 -2009) as well as the Hawthorne Caballeros for a combination of 8 years.

Stephen Currently lives in Middlesex, NJ and works for a commercial real estate company and has his Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting.

Dan is a graduate from WOHS class of 2006! This will be his first year with the color guard. He has previously worked as an instructor with Fairlawn High School Marching Band and winter guard as a technical assistant and choreographer.

His performance experience includes West Orange High School Marching Band (2004, 2005) WOHS Winter Guard (2004-2006), Emanon Winter Guard (2007) Alter Ego Winter Guard (2009, 2010) Caballeros Drum and Bugle Corps (2007) Bushwhackers (2008), and Fusion Core (2017).

Dan currently works as a high school biology teacher in the Newark Public Schools district.

Brianna, a West Orange alum (2015), has worked for West Orange Colorguard since Fall of 2016. Her performance experience includes the AMP winter guard and our very own West Orange Colorguard. She’s just recently graduated from LIM College with a degree in Visual Merchandising. She aspires to be a store designer and currently works at Macy’s as a Digital Merchandise Assistant.

Alli has worked in the West Orange Public School District since 2014, teaching general and vocal music at Gregory Elementary School for 8 years before earning a master’s degree in Educational Technology and stepping into her current role as the district’s Elementary Technology Integration Specialist. She has also spent several seasons working with the West Orange High School Marching Mountaineers. Previously, Alli also spent a season marching with the Hawthorne Caballeros Drum and Bugle Corps.

Conal is a WOHS graduate (Class of 2015). This is his first year with the Winter Guard after doing live audio and sound design work for the Marching Mountaineers since the 2021 season. He is a graduate of Drexel University’s Music Industry program and has been doing freelance music and audio work since college. Conal also works for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in their TV department.

Mrs. Lagatic has served as the associate band director at West Orange High School since 2005. Her duties at West Orange include directing the Symphonic Winds and Concert Band ensembles, co-directing the Marching Mountaineers, coordinating the honors chamber music program, conducting the Pit Orchestra, teaching music theory, woodwind lessons, and overseeing the color guard program.