Jason DeGroff - Marching Band Drill Designer
Jason DeGroff (Drill Design), is the owner and designer for JLD Designs, a custom drill design company that services high schools, colleges, color guards and drum and bugle corps. Jason is currently the drill designer for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, winners of the Sudler Trophy, an award given to the best college marching band in the country.
Jason holds a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma. While there he was a five-year member of the Minuteman Marching Band, and later was the Graduate T.A. for George N. Parks and the Marching Band.
Jason has worked at all levels in instrumental music as an elementary and middle school band director, an assistant high school band director and a college marching band director. He "revived" the marching band at Central CT State University where he served as director for five years.
He was a member of the World Champion Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps for three years and the Connecticut Hurricanes Drum and Bugle Corps for three years. Upon "aging out" he served as the visual caption head and wrote drill for the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps and the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Jason also has been the Show Coordinator for the Connecticut Hurricanes Drum and Bugle Corps.
Jason resides in Berlin, Ct. with his wife and four children. He and Melissa have been happily married for twelve years, and actually met while they were students marching in the UMass Minuteman Band! When he is not writing drill or spending time with his family, Jason spends time composing original music for his Nashville Demo he is putting together.
