With its 2025 production The Observer Effect, the Canton, OH corps won its tenth medal at the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, IN. The competition marked the end of an 8,000 mile national tour featuring intense competition with the Boston Crusaders, who won their first-ever World Championship tonight.

During a year featuring such incredible drum corps, we extend our congratulations to DCI’s newest Champions, the Boston Crusaders! We also express our heartfelt gratitude to bronze medalists, the Santa Clara Vanguard, and all of the other incredible competitors in this year’s field.

At their annual meeting on Tuesday, the Bluecats Board of Directors unanimously elected the organization’s first full-time Director, David Glasgow, to a lifetime board seat  He joins Ted Swaldo as the organization’s only two Directors Emeritus.

Today Bluecoats announced the election of Patty Dowd Schmitz to its board of directors. Patty is the President & CEO of the National First Ladies Library & Museum located in Canton, OH. She is a Bluecoats alumnus and already has a rich history of supporting Bluecoats’ fundraising & history efforts. Notably, she was the producer and project chairperson for 50 Years of Excellence, a beautiful coffee table book chronicling Bluecoats history and released in celebration of our 50th Anniversary in 2022.