Christina is the Color Guard Director at West Orange, where she has served as an instructor since Fall 2017. Originally from New York, she has over 20 years of experience in the performing arts and has taught groups across both New York and New Jersey, including Kingston High School, Roselle Park High School, Arlington High School, and Bridgewater-Raritan High School. She also served as the Color Guard Director at Somers High School.

Her performance experiences include marching with the Arlington High School Marching Band (2003–2005), Q.E.D. Winter Guard (2004, 2006, 2007), Sunrisers Drum Corps (2007), Emanon Winter Guard (2008), Hawthorne Caballeros Drum Corps (2008–2018), and Blessed Sacrament World Guard (2010–2014).

Christina currently resides in Belleville, NJ. In addition to her work in the performing arts, she is an Academic Support Teacher at Gregory School in West Orange.

Stephen, a Massachusetts native currently serving as a colorguard instructor and 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 Lyndhurst, 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.

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.