Hannah Pitts

I was born in Ozark, Alabama in 2003 and lived there until I was eight years old. In the year 2012, my family and I moved to Franklin, NC which was a very small town at the time. There was only about 3.000 people who lived there at the time but it has significantly grown since them. I attended Franklin High School from the years 2018-2022. While in high school, I was in the Marching Band for all four years, in concert band my freshman and sophomore years and symphonic band my junior and senior years. When I was a senior, I received the symphonic award which was given to one senior each year. I was also in Jazz band during my junior year and learned how to play the alto saxophone where normally I would play the flute. My senior year I played the piccolo flute for marching band which is a smaller and much higher pitch version. It was quite the interesting experience to learn new instruments but it was a lot of fun. As you can see, I was a major band kid in high school, but I decided not to continue that into college, despite a lot of my friends joining the Pride of the Mountains marching band at WCU without hesitation. I decided that it was time to move on and start becoming my own person, not just the "band kid." I am in the process of figuring out what it is I am supposed to do, besides playing in a band.