Wesley Tyree

Background

About Wesley Tyree

Wesley Tyree graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where he earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with a focus on dance education and choreography while also minoring in music and mathematics. Throughout college, he was a member of a variety of performance groups including Matrix Percussion, Onyx Color Guard, Juxtaposition Color Guard, and the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps. During his time with Onyx, they were a WGI gold medalist and a WGI silver medalist. After graduation, Wesley was invited to perform and compete at nationals with the Perkin’s School of the Arts located in Norwich, New York. In 2014, they were awarded the Joe Noce Memorial Award and were the Senior Dance National Champions. Along with competing locally and nationally, Wesley also worked with a multitude of programs throughout central Ohio while directing the guard of his alma mater, Westland High School. He also spent time in Chicago, Illinois for a year working with Lake Park High School (BOA Grand Nationals Semi-Finalists), Lincoln-Way East High School and Lincoln-Way North High School. Since moving to Texas in 2015, Wesley has performed with Black Gold Color Guard and CGT Dallas and most recently, CGT Denton Color Guard. Before becoming a color guard director at his current school, Plano East Senior High School, he was the director at McKinney High School in 2018 (WGI Dallas and Austin regional finalist). Currently, Wesley is a secondary mathematics teacher and color guard director at Plano East Senior High School. He is going into his fifth year as the color guard director and third year as a math teacher (Honors PreCalculus and AP Calculus AB). Wesley is excited to be continuing his journey at Plano East as well as pursing his MS in Applied Mathematics at UTD!