Many students from Lubbock High auditioned for the TMEA All-State Choir. This audition process has 3 stages leading up to the final selecting of an all-state choir. The students begin working on their pieces as early as in the summer with Choir camps and work with directors throughout the fall in order to practice the song selections and enhance their sight reading skills. Each fall over 70,000 Texas High school students begin practicing for these series of auditions. Lubbock High students started working with Mrs. Lujan in the month of August all the way through January. The 3 stages of auditions consist of region, pre-are, and area. They were required to prepare 4 songs and each stage had a blind audition. For each new round the students had to learn 3 to 4 new songs, each song lasting around 3 to 4 minutes. The day before auditions, participants receive their cuttings of each song as well as sight reading when entering the room. 9th grader Rebecca Torres says that her audition process was “hard work and very tiring, but it was worth it.” For region, the top 10 girls and top 10 boys advance to pre-area. For pre-area out of those 10, the top 5 advance. And for area 1st and 2nd chair boys and girls are put into a mixed choir and 3rd through 6th chair make it to either the girls choir or the boys choir. All of the Lubbock High students that advanced to area included 9th graders Braddock Bray and Rebecca Torres, 10 grader Grace Coughlon, 11th graders Kyla Castle, Sadie Gillespie, Jackson Herrington, and 12th grader Gabrielle Scherpreel. However, none of our students made it into the all-state choir.