Competing Events

OCHS JROTC has 7 competing teams, unarmed drill, armed drill, academic team, color guard, precision shooting, sporter shooting, and fitness team. In our competitions we have approximately 7 other schools who also have some, if not all, of these teams. To compete in one of our competitions you need to bring a color guard, if you do not have a color guard you cannot compete. There are also optional duel and solo competitions, there can be up to 2 duels and 2 solos per school, for both armed and unarmed.

Our most recent competition, a home comp at OCHS, was on January 17th, 2026, 6 schools competed: Washington, Prairie, Westvalley, Battleground, North Salem, and Shelton. Oregon City competed in all 7 of the 7 events. When competing there are 2-4 judges per team judging based on a list of aspects including bearing (no smiling, straight face), poise, confidence, marching capabilities, and many more.

Drill/color guard commanders are given a drill card with a list of commands they need to memorize right after the last comp, they have about 3-4 weeks to memorize it and practice it with their team. Cards are approximately 30-40 commands long, sometimes more or less. Commanders are expected to memorize this card in order, if they mess up during comp by missing a call, saying them in the wrong order, going out of bounds, or adding more than two rear marches for space, you will get marked down on your team score.

Teams have specific times they compete, the day always starts off with color guard from about 7:30-8:30. TIt then, it goes unarmed from about 8:30-10:45 and armed from about 12:00-2:30. Fitness team, marksmanship, academic, and duels/solos need to communicate with the instructor of your program to set a time for you to compete around your other events, if you participate in any other events. Marksmanship takes 2 hours, fitness takes about an hour, and academics takes about 30-45 minutes.

Placement

After all the events are done, at about 4:30, we have something called an award ceremony. At the awards ceremony all schools sit in their own little section of the bleachers, like the different grades at an assembly, with a color guard team posted in front of them. The color guards purpose is to present colors whenever your school places in an event. When the admin is talking, the color guard is at parade rest, a resting standing position. When/if your school gets called up for an event the commander calls them to attention and carry. When they say what your school placed they present colors, then afterwards they go back down to parade rest.

At the competition on January 17th, Oregon City took first place in unarmed drill, color guard team 1, and color guard team 2. Cadets Solarski and Arnold took first place in the unarmed exhibition duel, and cadet Dinnucci took second place in the armed solo exhibition. OC also won 3rd place precision shooting.

Battleground High School won first place fitness team-team one, academic team-team one, and precision shooting, second place unarmed drill, color guard team one, color guard team two, sporter shooting, and academic team-team two. They also went home with third place fitness team-team two.

Washington High School took first place sporter shooting, second place fitness team and third place armed drill.

Shelton High School placed first in Dual Armed Exhibition Drill, and armed drill, second place Dual Unarmed Exhibition Drill, and third place color guard team one.

North Salem High School went home with Unarmed drill third place and sporter shooting third place.

West Valley High School went home with third place Dual Armed Exhibition Drill and

Prairie High School took home with second place armed drill and precision shooting, and third place color guard team two and academic team.