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Flanagan High School Winter Guards
Founded in 1996 the same year as the high school,  Charles W. Flanagan High School  , the  Flanagan High School Winter Guards  have become one of the most succesful winter guard groups in the country. The Flanagan Color Guard are well-known, prestigious group of performers after winning consecutive championships both at the local SWFGA (South Florida Winter Guard Association) and at the international level at the WGI ( Winter Guard International ) world championships. Winter Guard is often called a sport of the arts because its incorporates dance and vigorous movement with spinning of flags, rifles and sabers. Flanagan High School currently has three different levels of winter guards. There is a varsity guard in the competition level of Scholastic World Class, an intermediate guard competiting in the Scholastic A Class, and a JV guard competing in Scholastic JV Class. Each guard has usually an average of 28 members compromised of high school students, both male and female. The varsity guard(also known as the  World Guard ) has won the gold medal at the WGI World Championships both 2008 and 2012 and also has won several bronze medals in the past years and a silver medal. They also won the Fan Favorite Award in 2012.