University of Illinois Marching Illini

We are so excited to share our new website with our fans! Marchingillini.com A big thank you to SURFACE 51 for creating this awesome experience for our fans and students! 💻🔶🔷💯

Wishing you the happiest New Year and the very best in 2024!

Today is the first day of Kwanzaa - Happy Kwanzaa!

From our to yours, we wish you all a very Happy Holidays!!!

Some of our current and former students participated in the annual Tuba Christmas yesterday at the Palmer House! A-MAAAAAAAAAAAzing!!! 🎄🎁🦌🔶🔷

Day FIVE and our final day of recognizing our scholarship winners for 2023! This year, we were able to give out 30 scholarships, spanning each of our sections. Today, we recognize our Drum Major scholarship and our Feature Twirler scholarship winners! Congratulations to ALL award recipients for 2023! 🧡💙

Day FOUR of recognizing our scholarship winners for 2023! This year, we were able to give out 30 scholarships, spanning each of our sections. Here are our award winners for the Gary E. Smith Excellence in Leadership Scholarship, Alumni Drumline Scholarship, and the Thomas A. Prickett Engineering Scholarship! 🧡💙

Day THREE of recognizing our scholarship winners for 2023! This year, we were able to give out 30 scholarships, spanning each of our sections. Here are more of our 2023 Loyalty Scholarship winners, with more being recognized throughout this week! 🧡💙

Day two of recognizing our scholarship winners for 2023! This year, we were able to give out 30 scholarships, spanning each of our sections. Here are more of our 2023 Loyalty Scholarship winners, with more being recognized throughout this week! 🧡💙

Each day this week, we'd like to recognize our scholarship winners for 2023. This year, we were able to give out 30 scholarships, spanning each of our sections. Here are just a handful of our 2023 Loyalty Scholarship winners, with more being recognized throughout this week! 🧡💙

Following Reading Day yesterday, finals kick off today. Wishing our Marching Illini students and all friends at best wishes! You got this!!!

Happy Hanukkah from your friends in the Marching Illini!

Twas the night before finals…

A fun story read by Chancellor Jones, featuring some special guests at the end…👀

Twas the Night Before Finals at Illinois Chancellor Jones shares some holiday wishes as well as a look behind-the-scenes at what happens on campus the night before finals.

More performance videos from this past Saturday as we wrap up the year, featuring our Illinettes Dance Team and Illini Drumline!

Illinettes Dance Performance: https://youtu.be/GmJ8B_48sWM
Drumline Cadence Series: https://youtu.be/8elFoXmsEtQ

Marching Illini Drumline: 2023 Cadence Series Since 1868, the Marching Illini has entertained millions of fans with traditional and innovative performances that have paved a path of excellence making the...

One final performance in Memorial Stadium by from this past Saturday. Here are our full pregame and halftime videos! 🧡💙

Pregame show: https://youtu.be/7SvLn_hqsek
Halftime show: https://youtu.be/e0jDa6cjtOU

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It’s GAME DAY‼️ One last performance in Memorial Stadium for our 78 seniors! Let’s cheer the Illini to a bowl game. Go ILLINI, beat the WILDCATSSsss!

This Black Friday, come check out the best deal in town and watch the Marching Illini for FREE during our open rehearsal and Friday Night Hype! The best part? No lines! (except in our formations)!

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all of our students, parents, alums, fans and all Illini! We are grateful for our students, directors, staff, and everyone that is a part of our Marching Illini famILLy. We extend our with you all on this special day!

We have several performance videos from Saturday's big WIN!🔶🔷

Pregame Show: https://youtu.be/nprH0mwe6bo
Halftime (Dads Day): https://youtu.be/VRtuREpjdsw
Illinettes performance: https://youtu.be/qGh9eUWI77A
Drumline performance: https://youtu.be/HPEGPiA0ZXQ

Marching Illini Halftime: Dads Day | ILLINOIS vs Indiana 11.11.2023 Today's halftime music saluted our Veterans with the playing of "Battle Hymn" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." We also celebrated Dads Day and closed with our ...

THANK YOU to those who have served our country, and Happy Veterans Day!

Here is our GAMEDAY schedule for game #10! Go ILLINI, beat the HOOSIERSSssssss! 🔶🔷

Here is our Friday schedule for November 10th. Tomorrow is GAME DAY and don’t forget about Friday Night Hype TONIGHT!!

Marching Illini super-fan Milo has a new uniform courtesy of the amazing creative efforts of Heather Swartz from the piccolo section!

Congratulations to all Class 4A-6A participants from IMBC earlier this month! O’Fallon Township High School was this year’s 4A-6A Grand Champion! Here are the top three finishers from each class, as well as caption award winners!

Congratulations to all Class 1A-3A participants from IMBC earlier this month. Mahomet-Seymour High School was this year’s 1A-3A Grand Champion! Here are the top three finishers from each class, as well as caption award winners!

Check out this awesome story covering our trip to Washington, IL featuring aerial drone footage from the performance!

Marching Illini joins up with Washington Marching Panthers for one-night-only performance The Marching Illini is a force of more than 400 students strong.