Represented below are all active members of the Purdue Trumpet Section in ALL Ensembles within the Purdue Band Department.  If you are not listed, are no longer active, or would like to update your information, please email the webmaster at webmaster@purduetrumpets.com.   It is your responsibility to check and maintain that your information is up-to-date & accurate and submit the proper requests to adjust it.  Thank you!

    Mary Badame

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Stuart, FL
   
Major:
Mechanical Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
   
Clothing Officer Quote: "For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist the glass is half empty, and for an engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

    Andrew Bangel

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
 
Hometown:
West Lafayette, IN
   
Major:
Computer Graphics Technology (CGT)
Bands:
AAMB
   
  Quote: "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you!"

    Tony Barenie

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Crown Point, IN
   
Major:
Communication
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass, AMRE
   
  Quote: "If your seeds won't grow, you need to find more fertile fields."
 
    Brittany Barrus

 
Player Profile
Class of 2013
Hometown:
Huntington, IN
   
Major:
Undecided
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass, Boiler Box Band
   
  Quote: "Suckage is a don't."


    Jace Bauer

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Bloomington, IN
   
Major:
Atmospheric Science
   
 
 
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"
 
    Alex Bowman

 
Player Profile
Class of 2013
Hometown:
Highland, IL
   
Major:
Chemical Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
 
 
  Quote: "60% of the time it works every time." ~ From Anchorman

 

    Greg Bulin

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Indianapolis, IN
   
Major:
History
Bands:
AAMB
   
  Quote: “Mother of God... "  ~Officer Ramathorne


    Samantha Carney

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Nappanee, IN
   
Major:
Chemistry Education
Bands:
AAMB
   
  Quote: "You should all have threesomes." ~ Max Jones
 
    Luke Castro

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Burbank, CA
   
Major:
Aviation Management, Air Traffic Control
Bands:
AAMB
   
  Quote: "With great power comes great responsibility."

    Erin Coffey

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Mequon, WI
   
Major:
Speech-Language Pathology
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
   
  Quote: "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." ~ Robin Williams

    Dale Crakes

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Bristol, WI
   
Major:
Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Box Band
   
  Quote: "I would be more afraid of an army of sheep lead by a lion than an army of lions lead by a sheep"
 
    Derek Dillman

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
West Harrison, IN
Major:
Aviation Technology
Bands:
AAMB
   
  Quote: "If you're going through hell, keep going."
 
 
    Elliot Eismin

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Munster, IN
Major:
 Mechanical Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote: ""Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money" ~ Robin Williams

    Eric Faulkner

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Batesville, IN
Major:
Actuarial Science and Statistics
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
2009 Section Leader Quote: "You say tomater, I zader matermorts."
2007-2008 Rank Leader
Email: efaulkner@purdue.edu
 
    Kevin Ference

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Cranberry Township, PA
Major:
Air Traffic Control, Aviation Management
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
2009 Rank Leader Quote: "A mile of road will take you only one mile, but a mile of runway will take you anywhere."
 
  
    Jeff Frumkin

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
 
Major:
Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
  Quote:

    Liz Graf

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
 Dublin, OH
Major:
Aviation Technology
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass, GABS
  Quote: "If you don't find it in the index, look through the entire catalog."

    Brian Haskett

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Danville, IN
Major:
Agricultural Education
 
 
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"


    Jason Herman

 
Player Profile
Class of 2013
Hometown:
Wilton, CT
Major:
Aviation Flight Technology
Bands:
AAMB, Jazz
    Quote: "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

    Anna Holt

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Davison, MI
Major:
Materials Science and Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
2008 Rank Leader Quote: "Trumpets! You're playing too tight, too much like marching band. Loosen up! I don't know... Play like drunken Mexicans on a carousel! Go get a shot of Tequila!" ~ Mr. Schuster
   
   
 
    Marc Hubbard

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Evansville, IN
Major:
Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass, Boiler Box Band
  Quote: "Do what you want to do today cuz tomorrow might be too late... and always take chances... and NEVER lose the one you love"

    Jake Hughes

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Chesterton, IN
Major:
OLS
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
2009 Rank Leader Quote: "Ability - is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation - determines what you do.
Attitude - determines how well you do it."
 
    Brian Ivanson

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Bedford, IN
Major:
Pharmacy
   
  Quote: "I like it when we do it two times in a row!" ~ Amanda Pyle
 
    Derrek Jones

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Laurel, IN
Major:
Liberal Arts
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote: "Do I look like a man who plans things? I'm like a dog chasing a car. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught one!" ~ The Joker
 
    Dimitri K

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
 
Major:
Chemical Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
  Quote: "Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." -George W. Bush
 
    Geoff Koleff

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Crown Point, IN
Major:
History
Bands:
AAMB, Varsity Band
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"

    James Koschmann

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
 Hanover Park, IL
Major:
Aviation Flight Technology
Nickname:
Jim
  Quote: "Leo the Lion goes GRRRRR!"

    Scotty LaVanne

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Lake Zurich, IL
Major:
Civil Engineering
Bands:
 Jazz Band, Boiler Brass
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"

    Mike Lorenz

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
 
Hometown:
Loveland, OH
Major:
Mechanical Engineering
Nickname:
 Lorenz
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
  Quote: "Heisenberg may have been here"

    Sarah Lucas

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Nappanee, IN
Major:
Speech Sciences
   
  Quote: "The crumbs at the bottom of the box of cereal?...Yeah, they're the result of survival of the fittest.  Cereal is brutal."

    Chris "CJ" Malek

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
 
Hometown:
Germantown, WI
Major:
Pre-MED
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
  Quote: "All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." ~Walt Disney
 
    Lincoln McCord

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Terre Haute, IN
Major:
Electrical Engineering Technology
 
 
  Quote: "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
 
    Jared Meeks

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Fort Wayne, IN
Major:
Undecided
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote:
 
    Gamini Mendis

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Washington, D.C.
Major:
Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote:
 
    Jason Miller

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Elkhart, IN
Major:
Computer Graphics Technology
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
  Quote: "College would be a lot more fun if you didn't have any classes!"

    Andrew Mizener

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Sidney, OH / Berlin, Germany
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
Major:
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Nickname:
The German
Tau Beta Sigma - Class of 2005 Quote: “Veni, Vidi, Vici” – Julius Caesar
 
    Kyle Moelker

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
LaPorte, IN
Major:
Civil Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
2009 Assistant Section Leader Quote: "Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine"
2008 Rank Leader
  
    Chelsea Noffsinger

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Huntington, IN
Major:
Pre-VET
Bands:
AAMB, Collegiate Band
  Quote: "When I tell you to do something you do it. So if I tell you to bend over you do it." -Pam
 
    Patrick O'Malley

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Wellington, FL
Major:
Civil Engineering
 
 
  Quote: "Repel them, repel them. Make them relinquish the ball." - ancient Purdue football cheer
 
    James Plourde

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Wilbraham, MA
Major:
Natural Resource Planning and Design
Nickname:
Jim
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"
 
    Matt Popow

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Lemont, IL
Major:
Computers and Information Technology
   
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"

    Amanda Pyle

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Huntington, IN
Major:
Nursing
   
  Quote: "20-Hundred!"
 
    Caylen Redden

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Lafayette, IN
Major:
 Communication and Creative Writing
Nicknames:
Bob, Vader Chick, The Viking
  Quote: "ticka ticka ticka ticka"


    Landon Richmond

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Goshen, IN
Major:
 History
Minor:
 Political Science
Bands:
AAMB
     

    Matt Rockey

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Bloomfield, IN
   
Major:
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
   
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"

 

    Kyle Ruthig

 
Player Profile
Class of 2013
Hometown:
Greenwood, IN
   
Major:
Management
Bands:
AAMB
Quote: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller

    Alex Sabatka

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
 
Hometown:
Rolling Meadows, IL
Major:
Civil Engineering - Architectural
   
  Quote: "Be the best you can be!"
 
    Dustin Scaggs

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Weston, FL
Major:
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
   
   
  Quote: "I have no quote at this time"

    Andrew Scharbrough

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Indianapolis, IN
Major:
Aviation Management
Nickname:
Scharbro-bro-brooo...
2009 Rank Leader Quote: "Where are the balls and why arent u playing with them yet"--Catherine
 

    Jeff Schmidt

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Munster, IN
Major:
Mechanical Engineering Technology
Nickname:
Holy Schmidt!!!
Kappa Kappa Psi - Class of 2005 Quote: "Smile it is the second best thing you can do with your lips"
 
    Katie Schott

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Attica, IN
Major:
Pre-MED (Biology)
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
  Quote: "It's better to forgive and forget than to hate and remember." ~Pastor Nancy


    Tom Schultz

 
Player Profile
Class of 2015
Hometown:
Rochester, MN
Major:
Pre-Pharmacy
Bands:
AAMB, Others TBD
  Quote: "Can you all just do me one favor? Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any of us. Live, love, laugh, enjoy life." ~ Kirby Puckett
 
    Carolyn Shaffer

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
Valparaiso, IN
Major:
English Literature
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote: "Go big or go home."
 
    Sarah Sienko

 
Player Profile
Class of 2014
Hometown:
Lowell, IN
Major:
Pharmacy
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
  Quote: “We grow up hearing that trumpeters blew down the walls of Jericho, that Gabriel's trumpet announces the will of God, and that the largest, and hippest, of all animals, the elephant, has a trunk mostly for trumpeting. These grandiose images shape the classic trumpet persona: brash, impetuous, cocky, cool, in command. Anyone who has ever played in a band knows that if the conductor stops rehearsal because a fight breaks out, if somebody takes your girlfriend, if a tasteless practical joke is pulled, if someone challenges every executive decision no matter how trivial, it's got to be a trumpet player. That's just how we are." ~Wynton Marsalis
 
    David Simmons

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Elkhart, IN
Major:
Electrical Engineering
Bands:
Concert Jazz Band, AMRE
  Quote: "It's not quitting if you never started."
 
 
    Greg Sherwood

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Strongsville, OH
   
Major:
Mechanical Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, Concert Jazz Band, Lab Jazz Band, AMRE
  Quote: "I'm not the best.  The best is probably sitting behind a desk somewhere right now. I just wanted it the most" ~ Jim Thorpe
 
    Jen Sloane

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Michigan City, IN
Major:
Aviation Management
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
  Quote: "Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change. Love deeply and forgive quickly. Take chances. Life's too short to be unhappy. You have to take good with the bad. Smile when you're sad. Love what you've got and always remember what you had. Always forgive, never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret."
 
    Richard Smith

 
Player Profile
Class of 2009
Hometown:
Villa Park, CA
Major:
Aviation Flight Technology
Bands:
AAMB, GABS
  Quote: "Congratulations on your license. The skies are no longer safe." ~ My mom (gotta love the family support)
 
    Caitlin Stansell

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Charlotte, NC
Major:
English, Psychology
Bands:
AAMB, GABS, Concert Band
2009 Rank Leader Quote: "The Outstanding Bandsman Award is a lot like the Outstanding Bandswoman Award, except that it's given to a guy." ~ Spe
Tau Beta Sigma - Class of 2008
Records and Recruiting
 
    Emily Stein

 
Player Profile
Class of 2011
Hometown:
Edina, MN
Major:
Environmental Engineering
Bands:
AAMB, Boiler Brass
  Quote: "Hey David what would you say if I said, Que hora es?"
"Nachos"
~David Schurger
 
    AJ Stone

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Germantown, WI
Major:
Pre-MED
Bands:
AAMB, Winter Guard, GABS, Varsity Band
  Quote:
 
    Sean Sullivan

 
Player Profile
Class of 2012
Hometown:
West Chester, OH
High School:
Lone Oak HS '08
Major:
Engineering
Bands:
AAMB
  Quote: "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

  
    John Wadas

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Munster, IN
Major:
Biology
Bands:
Boiler Brass, Purdue Jazz Bands
    Quote: "Finis coronat opus: the end crowns the work."
   
 
    Jordan Walker

 
Player Profile
Class of 2010
Hometown:
Avon, IN
Major:
Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
Bands:
AAMB
2008-2009 Rank Leader Quote: "Pulling out of the moving line early is like bringing toothpaste on the plane now: it's simply not allowed anymore." -Ralph Stewart III