Marching Staff and Design – Summit Jaguar Band

Mansfield Summit Design Team and Staff

Casey Snead - Program Coordinator and Drill Designer

Casey Snead has been sharing his passion for the marching arts for the past 15 years working with many locally and nationally competitive programs. Casey loves to combine the artistry found in WGI with marching band. He is a drill writer, program coordinator, and choreographer as well as the owner of Artistic Motion, a marching arts company.

He had the opportunity to march as a color guard member of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps in 2008 and has been a multi-year veteran of Black Gold IW, both as performer and staff member.

Besides pageantry, Casey loves fitness, working on multimedia projects, online gaming, and spending time with his wife Kelly, son Grey, and pet huskies Ava and Kenna.

Leslie Gilreath - Wind Arrangements

LESLIE GILREATH is a native of Anderson South Carolina and a graduate of Furman University, where he studied conducting and orchestration with Jay Bocook. He also studied composition and orchestration with Michael Hennagin and Carolyn Bremer at the University of Oklahoma. Having grown up with a love of music deeply rooted in his high school band and church experiences, he spent his childhood and young adulthood immersed in playing the piano and saxophone and conducting both his high school and college marching bands.

He is in his twenty-ninth year in education and his twenty-third year as the Director of Bands at Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina where The Summerville Ensembles receive consistent superior ratings and have been featured at SCMEA and MENC Southern Division Conferences. He has been the recipient of Citations of Excellence and Citations of Merit for Marching Excellence from the National Band Association. Mr. Gilreath is a National Board Certified Teacher, the 2011 Summerville High School Teacher of the Year and a Dorchester District Honor Teacher of the Year. He was named the Phi Beta Mu Theta Chapter 2019 Outstanding Bandmaster and a 2019 Laureate of the John Philip Sousa Foundation's "Legion of Honor." His music has been performed world-wide and on the stage of the prestigious Midwest Clinic.

His concert music is available through C. Alan Publications.

Mr. Gilreath remains an active arranger for the marching arts and is the brass arranger for the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps of Denver Colorado.

Doug Bush - Percussion Arranger

Doug Bush received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas in music education and is an international clinician, adjudicator, educator, performer, and composer. As a performer, Bush has worked with Grammy-nominated artists Poovalur Sriji, Horacio Hernandez, and Ignacio Berroa. As a composer, Bush has written solos, ensembles, and method index including the bestselling index for snare drum, Super Hands, Master Hands, and Opening Statement. Bush has been commissioned for original works performed for the TMEA Invited Percussion Ensemble, PASIC Invited Percussion Ensemble (High School), and Midwest Invited Percussion Ensemble concerts. Together with his wife, Patricia Islas they have written, arranged, and taught for numerous award-winning high school band programs including champions of the Thunder in the Hills Drumline Contest, HEB Drumline Contest, Plano Drumline Contest, North Texas Drumline Contest, Lewisville Drumline Contest, Lone Star Drumline Contest, PASIC Drumline Contest, and Texas State and BOA marching band champions. They have also served as percussion teachers and arrangers for World and Open Class Drum and Bugle corps. Doug Bush proudly endorses Mapex/Majestic Percussion, Pro-Mark Sticks and Mallets, Remo Drum Heads, SABIAN Cymbals, Beetle Percussion, and Lot Riot Apparel.