Pace High School Navy JROTC drill team wins national championship
Pace High School s Navy JROTC program beat out more than 600 schools to earn a national drill championship this year.
The program was awarded first place overall in the Navy Nationals Academic, Athletic and Drill Competition, which members of the team describe as the Super Bowl of Navy JROTC. The drill team was honored at an award ceremony at Pace High on Thursday afternoon. I think it was just a surreal moment whenever we got announced. We ve been working so hard for it and just being announced as actually being the No. 1 (drill team) in the nation, it s just such an accomplishment you can t wrap your brain around just in that exact moment. It takes a couple minutes to be like Oh wow. We really just won that thing, said Caitlin Proper, a junior at Pace High and this year s public affairs officer.